Director Maintenance Strategy & Planning

Freeport McMoRan•Phoenix, AZ

12d•Hybrid

About The Position

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! This role is responsible for creating and governing 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.

Requirements

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.
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 maintenance strategies across multiple sites
Deep understanding of end to end maintenance work management processes, including work identification, prioritization, planning, scheduling, execution, closeout, and feedback loops
Proven ability to design, standardize, and govern maintenance processes at enterprise scale, including definition of roles, decision rights, standards, and deviation governance
Strong expertise in maintenance planning and scheduling systems, including job plan quality, labor estimating, materials readiness, kitting strategies, and schedule risk management
Demonstrated ability to establish closed loop learning mechanisms, ensuring failure insights, execution feedback, and performance data routinely drive updates to maintenance strategies and processes
Strong capability in leading maintenance process changes across decentralized organizations, balancing standardization adoption with local ownership
Ability to coach site leaders, planners, and engineers in maintenance process maturity, utilizing data, standards, and field credibility to drive alignment
Strong understanding of outage planning, system availability optimization, wear mechanisms, manpower constrained execution, and asset lifecycle management
Proven ability to translate maintenance strategy into predictable resource and cost profiles
Demonstrated aptitude connecting operational constraints to technology enabled solutions
Expertise in CMMS (e.g., SAP PM), reliability methodologies, and maintenance data analytics
Ability to lead through influence, not through positional authority
Requires ability to perform work at extreme elevation levels.
Requires (domestic and international) travel up to 50% of the time.

Responsibilities

Create and govern a unified maintenance strategy that maximizes asset availability, minimizes risk, and optimizes lifecycle value across Freeport Americas operations.
Define the standards and decision frameworks that determine when assets are maintained, paused, degraded, refurbished, or replaced.
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.
Lead development of a centralized planning capability, standardizing planning methods, quality expectations, and role definitions across equipment types and maintenance scopes.
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.
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.
Translate strategy into reliable demand signals for materials, contractors, and services.
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.