Title:  Manager Leach Analytics

What You Will Do

Define and lead the strategy for advanced analytics initiatives that improve leach recovery performance across stockpile leaching operations. Drive the development, implementation, and adoption of data-driven solutions, providing leadership to a cross-functional technical team and establishing effective model governance practices. Translate operational insights into scalable processes that optimize first-cycle recovery and support continuous performance improvement.

• Lead and coordinate a multidisciplinary technical team, bringing together data scientists, data engineers, UI developers, and metallurgists to develop, deploy, and scale advanced analytics solutions in collaboration with site leach metallurgy and operations teams.
• Champion the adoption and value realization of advanced analytics models by partnering with site leach metallurgists and operational leaders to align business priorities, integrate analytical tools into decision-making processes, measure performance against established baselines, and communicate outcomes, insights, and improvement opportunities to key stakeholders.
• Develop and execute a strategic advanced analytics roadmap, prioritizing high-impact opportunities and defining key milestones to support the successful development, deployment, and continuous improvement of analytics solutions.
• Lead the advanced analytics strategy for leaching operations, leveraging machine learning, agentic AI, first-principles simulation, and existing leach modeling capabilities to forecast performance, identify recovery constraints, and uncover opportunities to enhance recovery outcomes.
• Establish and maintain governance frameworks that ensure data quality, model integrity, deployment consistency, impact measurement, and documentation standards, while proactively managing technical, operational, and adoption-related risks.
• Drive the translation and scaling of leaching insights across stockpile operations by converting learnings related to stockpile design, operating practices, and monitoring technologies into standardized design and operational guidance that improves first-cycle recovery performance for new stockpiles and lift expansions.
• Perform other duties as required.

What You Bring To Freeport

• High School diploma or equivalent (GED) and thirteen (13) years of related technical or engineering experience, including supervisory or lead experience; OR
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field (mining, chemical, reliability, mechanical, etc) and nine (9) years of related technical or engineering experience, including supervisory or lead experience; OR
• Master’s degree in engineering or related field (mining, chemical, reliability, mechanical, etc) and seven (7) years of related technical or engineering experience, including supervisory or lead experience.
• Proven knowledge of standard concepts, practices, technologies, safety protocols, and procedures across leaching and hydrometallurgical value chain.
• Strong decision-maker and problem solver with ability to manage and lead teams to push analytics solutions in line with desired business value.
• Ability to influence a diverse group of stakeholders with strong leadership acumen, including top teams and junior colleagues.
• Ability to be timely, effective, and proficient in multiple forms of communication.
• Ability to quickly learn and understand technical concepts, practices, technologies, protocols.
• Impact-focused mindset and the drive for continuous improvement.
• Proven ability to lead and mentor large, cross-functional teams to achieve a product delivery and ability to sustain something that’s already been achieved.
• Experience with an analytics-focused digital products and deep knowledge of data governance, analytics technologies, techniques, and architecture Passion to challenge the status quo and devise analytics solutions with out-of-the-box thinking, collaboration, and a “safety-first” approach.
• Embodies a creative mindset of abundance, discovery, and partnership Not afraid to “roll up the sleeves” and seeks to go outside of comfort zone to learn and innovate – pushing teams to do the same in a non-hierarchical environment.
• Ability to spotlight ongoing efforts, celebrate success by giving credit to others on the team.