Regional Manager Project Controls

Freeport-McMoRan is a leading international mining company with headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona. We operate large, long-lived, geographically diverse assets with significant proven and probable reserves of copper, gold, and molybdenum. The company has a dynamic portfolio of operating, expansion and growth projects in the copper industry. Freeport-McMoRan is one of the world’s largest publicly traded copper producers, the world’s largest producer of molybdenum and a significant gold producer. We have a long and successful history of conducting our business in a safe, highly efficient and socially-responsible manner.

We have the assets, the talent, the drive and the financial strength to provide attractive and rewarding careers of our employees. We encourage you to take the time to explore the opportunity to advance your career at Freeport-McMoRan.

Please note: This position has the possibility to work remotely up to 100% of the time. The position will require occasional travel to the Phoenix corporate offices and/or site locations . This position may be performed anywhere in the U.S. except California, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Michigan, Illinois, Kentucky and New York.  Additional states may be excluded from remote work based on business factors.  Should the positions shift to in-office work in the future, the company will offer relocation benefits at that time should the position meet the established eligibility for these benefits.

Description

Provides leadership, mentorship, and oversight of Capital Project Controls teams for all our large capital and expansion projects within a designated region. Responsible for implementation and training of best practices for project planning and scheduling, cost estimating and monitoring, progress measurement, risk management and reporting. Hires and manages project controls personnel. Responsible for ensuring open communication and information from Project Teams to Corporate Management.

• Mentor and manage a large staff of project controls team members, ensure project is staffed appropriately, and conduct regular staff performance reviews 
• Guide resolution and provide a sounding board for complex project control issue.  Strong analytical skills required to review and analyze all project controls information and ensure accuracy as well as identify issues, concerns and potential mitigations
• Interact with the project team and corporate management team and participate in regular project meetings.  Gather information and prepare reports and presentations of information as needed for management.
• Communicate material changes: scope changes and schedule slippages and potential impacts and participate in the identification of mitigation strategies.  Ensure trends of cost and schedule are identified, validate efficient change management process is followed; communicate and suggest corrective actions.
• Coordinate with cross functional team in project setting, ensure project controls team members are interfacing with engineering, procurement, contracts and construction on concepts and relationships to the scope of work and ensure adherence to safety and quality standards
• Implement risk management protocol which includes identification, documentation, mitigation and tracking of potential risks on the project.  Additionally determine potential cost and schedule/progress impacts of potential risks as they are identified
• Oversight and validation of project baseline process for cost, schedule and progress and ensure all project systems are implemented according to process and company standards and procedures
• Ensure full implementation of company processes and procedures as well as industry best practices with regards to project controls on the project following the company project stage gate process  
• Ensure the accuracy of reported progress percentage based on the rules of credit established within the project.  Develop progress measurement process for required scopes of work 
• Ensure project schedule development, review and update processes are in place and to ensure accuracy and alignment with the overall master schedule.  
• Ensure all project required reporting is effective, accurate and submitted as required.  Manage reporting to corporate management
• Perform other duties as required

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

This position requires international air travel. In accordance with Freeport-McMoRan’s requirement for all employees whose job requires international travel, if you are hired you will be required to submit proof that you are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to travel by air internationally, unless the company has granted a medical or religious accommodation.

• High School diploma or GED and at least fifteen (15) years of experience in construction