Operational Excellence Engineer I

Freeport McMoRan•Bagdad, AZ

2d•$75,000 - $104,000•Onsite

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. Under close supervision, gather data, support performance optimization in execution and adoption of solutions, by embracing business improvement methodologies and engineering practices. As the Operational Excellence Engineer I, you participate in collaboration sessions (brainstorming, fact-finding, design thinking, problem solving) with customers to drive business improvement. You will apply problem solving techniques (i.e., bottleneck analysis, RCA, Lean, design thinking, OEE, diagnostics), lessons learned, engineering skills, and best practices to support discovery. In this role, you design with a minimum viable product (MVP) mindset and iterate with customer feedback and enhancements to achieve the desired outcomes for assigned engineering projects, structure and communicate facts, insights, and data from engineering analysis into clear, audience-appropriate narratives that align stakeholders around decisions, actions, and organizational change. You will influence and motivate change in operational behavior and processes at the department level to support sustainment, review and establish Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for equipment and processes based on engineering analysis and data evaluation, and perform other duties as requested.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in an appropriate engineering discipline
No experience required
Candidates may be required to pass a medical exam.
Candidates must pass all required training and/or testing.
Employees may be required to work a non-standard schedule, which may include shift work (other than day shift) at a 24/7, 365-day operation.
Freeport-McMoRan promotes a drug/alcohol-free work environment using mandatory pre-employment drug testing and on-going drug and alcohol testing, as allowed by applicable laws.

Nice To Haves

Exposure to probability, statistical analysis and reliability engineering.
Ability to research and interpret data of minimal complexity using hypothesis generation and Design of Experiment methodologies.
Knowledge of software tools (Python, SQL and Excel in a big data environment, etc.).
Knowledge of the processes, costs, schedules, constraints and deliverables of assigned departments to improve safety, process efficiencies, production rates, cost controls and protection of the environment.
Knowledge of the equipment and associated SOPs at a department level.
Skilled in following safety practices and recognizing hazards.
Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
Basic industry knowledge of mining and processing, familiarity with mining terminology and collaboration skills and exposure to driving results in a team environment.
Knowledge of Lean/Six Sigma process.
Experience working in Maintenance, Operations or Engineering role.
Experience assisting with Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA).
Experience working in SAP or Business Objects.

Responsibilities

Participate in collaboration sessions (brainstorming, fact-finding, design thinking, problem solving) with customers to drive business improvement.
Apply problem solving techniques (i.e., bottleneck analysis, RCA, Lean, design thinking, OEE, diagnostics), lessons learned, engineering skills, and best practices to support discovery.
Design with a minimum viable product (MVP) mindset and iterate with customer feedback and enhancements to achieve the desired outcomes for assigned engineering projects.
Structure and communicate facts, insights, and data from engineering analysis into clear, audience-appropriate narratives that align stakeholders around decisions, actions, and organizational change.
Influence and motivate change in operational behavior and processes at the department level to support sustainment.
Review and establish Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for equipment and processes based on engineering analysis and data evaluation.
Perform other duties as requested.