Title:  Manager Reliability & Maintenance

What You Will Do

Provide strategic and tactical leadership to ensure safe, reliable, and cost-effective operation of assets through disciplined maintenance planning, scheduling, execution and continuous improvement. Direct standardization of maintenance practices, forecasting and cost control, safety performance, and workforce development. Provide technical leadership in reliability centered maintenance, reliability engineering and process development.

In this role, you will lead asset reliability programs and electrical/automation maintenance oversight, with responsibility for reducing unplanned downtime through failure analysis and improvement plans while championing asset criticality and life cycle management. You will direct and standardize maintenance processes across Fixed Plant Maintenance, Field Services shops, and Reliability Centered Maintenance by focusing on planning, scheduling, backlog management, consistent work order coding, KPI tracking, cost control, PCR forecasting, and effective system usage to ensure strong planning, execution, measurement, and analysis. Provide oversight to ensure appropriate recommendations on assigned engineering projects and technical challenges supporting processing operations and maintenance. As Manager Reliability and Maintenance, manage overall planning and forecasting activities for cost and equipment performance at FMA and site levels, rolling up key equipment repair forecasts and overseeing budgets, cost control, and major projects. You will establish strategic goals, objectives, policies, and procedures related to internal and external site resources and provide maintenance performance information and resources to site leadership and project managers. You will deliver measurable improvement in tactical job execution through coaching, resource sharing, schedule and scope evaluation, and pre- and post-job guidance. This position will be responsible for maintenance job planning, preparation, execution, and outcomes, providing guidance to Maintenance Superintendents. Advance reliability technology and site support while leading and developing maintenance and reliability teams and guiding Reliability Chiefs.

What You Bring To Freeport

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or related field and seven (7) years of Maintenance and Reliability experience in Industrial environments, including five (5) years in a leadership role; OR
High School Diploma and ten (10) years of experience, including five (5) years in a leadership role.
Strong knowledge of CMMS, RCA, reliability tools, and asset management.
Expertise managing plant maintenance processes and surface mining equipment maintenance.
Technocrat-level understanding of surface mining equipment and maintenance practices.
Understanding of mine and processing operational needs and requirements.
Strong interpersonal, presentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Knowledge of MSHA and OSHA legislation and safety regulations.
Knowledge of basic employment laws, legislation, regulations, and trends.
Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
Experience in financial and project management with cost control methods.
Computer proficiency including Microsoft Office suite.

Preferred Qualifications

Mining or heavy industrial experience.
Reliability or maintenance certification such as CMRP or PMP.
Experience with condition monitoring technologies.
Lean or Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification.
Proficiency with CMMS systems, SAP preferred.
Major shutdown or turnaround leadership experience.