Director Maintenance Strategy & Planning
Freeport-McMoRanAbout the role
Why You Should Apply for This Job
At Freeport-McMoRan, we are committed to providing an employment package that recognizes excellence, encourages safe production and a culture supported by our core values. Here, you’ll find a collaborative environment where safety is a top priority, all opinions are valued, and people are empowered to grow in their career. Apply Today!
Where You Will Work
Our global headquarters is in Phoenix, Arizona. Several hundred employees support global operations in finance, human resources, information technology, planning and more from the main office, satellite offices or online. As a Hybrid employee, you’ll engage in virtual collaboration as well as attend in-person meetings at our Collaboration Hub in Phoenix or at one of our site locations. The Collaboration Hub provides an open, flexible workspace for individuals and teams to come together for various business needs. Amenities at the Hub include a working café, phone booths and meeting rooms with technology tools for virtual and in-person collaboration. In-person attendance may vary based on the position and department requirements.
Phoenix is the capital of the Grand Canyon State and enjoys mostly bright skies throughout the year. It is the perfect place if you enjoy the outdoors, love sports, concerts and other big city amenities or technology. There are great neighborhoods around Phoenix, with easy access to a major city, nature, the arts and many more amenities.
What You Will Do
Create and govern a unified maintenance strategy that maximizes asset availability, minimizes risk, and optimizes lifecycle value across Freeport Americas operations by defining the standards and decision frameworks that determine when assets are maintained, paused, degraded, refurbished, or replaced. In this role, you define and own the enterprise maintenance strategy framework for Freeport Americas, explicitly governing failure‑mode‑informed tradeoffs that are executable with available resources and continuously refined through operational feedback. You lead development of a centralized planning capability, standardizing planning methods, quality expectations, and role definitions across equipment types and maintenance scopes. As the Director of Maintenance Strategy & Planning, you design strategies that maximize asset efficiency and mechanical availability while accounting for workforce capacity, skills, supply chain readiness, operating practices, and startup constraints, determining optimal outage frequency, timing, and duration. You ensure maintenance strategies are explicitly aligned with capital planning, defining clear decision frameworks for extending asset life, refurbishing, or replacing equipment based on performance, risk, and lifecycle economics. The role translates strategy into reliable demand signals for materials, contractors, and services, with procurement responsibilities retained by Supply Chain. You accelerate the Reinventing Mining agenda by integrating maintenance strategy with next‑generation technologies and operational constraints. Establish and govern a technical maintenance knowledge system that preserves, replicates, and scales site‑level improvements into enterprise capability. Embed maintenance strategies through standardized planning and scheduling processes. Systematically capture and deploy insights from failures and effective interventions across all sites. Routinely engage cross‑functional leadership to ensure maintenance decisions support total business performance. Own and govern the enterprise maintenance work management process from identification through closeout. Establish standardized processes, decision rights, quality maintenance inputs, and performance metrics to drive consistent execution and continuous improvement across sites.
What You Bring To Freeport
- Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical, Maintenance, Reliability, Electrical, or Mining
- 15+ years progressive maintenance experience, including significant field‑based roles directly experiencing equipment condition, failure modes, manpower constraints, and production impacts
- Strong technical credibility in fixed plant, and/or heavy mobile equipment. Along with a working understanding of how crushers, mills, conveyors, mobile fleets, power systems, and supporting infrastructure degrade or failures are repaired and are safely returned to service
- Deep technical knowledge of maintenance and reliability engineering, including practical application of RCM, FMEA, RCFA, condition monitoring, and failure analysis, with explicit consideration of hazard identification and risk controls embedded in the maintenance tasks of fixed mining plant and heavy mobile equipment
- Demonstrated experience designing and implementing maint
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