Title:  Manager Process Automation Projects

What You Will Do

As the Manager Process Automation Projects, you are responsible for identifying, prioritizing, and delivering strategic process automation, optimization, and digital transformation initiatives that create measurable business value across Freeport operations. You manage a portfolio of enterprise projects and serve as the bridge between business needs and technology solutions, with accountability for achievement and verification of operational and financial benefits.

• In this role, you will lead the planning, execution, and delivery of strategic automation and optimization projects to achieve safety, operational, and financial objectives.
• You will manage a portfolio of initiatives, ensuring effective prioritization, resource allocation, budget control, and schedule adherence.
• You are a partner with operations, maintenance, engineering, metallurgy, information technology, and digital teams to design, deploy, and sustain optimization solutions.
• You drive stakeholder engagement, organizational change management, and user adoption.
• You identify, evaluate, and prioritize automation, optimization, and digital technology opportunities.
• You develop project scopes, business cases, cost estimates, and implementation plans and track realized business value.
• You lead cross-functional teams, contractors, consultants, and technology providers.
• You establish and monitor KPIs and value realization measures.
• You evaluate, pilot, and implement emerging technologies, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, and automation solutions.
• You partner with the Integrated Remote Operations Center (IROC) to deploy enterprise solutions that improve operational decision-making and performance.
• You perform other duties as requested.

What You Bring To Freeport

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering and ten (10) years of experience leading process automation, optimization, operational improvement, or digital transformation initiatives within mining, metals, minerals processing, hydrometallurgical, or other large-scale industrial operations, including experience managing cross-functional project teams and delivering measurable business value OR
• Master’s degree in Engineering and eight (8) years of experience leading process automation, optimization, operational improvement, or digital transformation initiatives within mining, metals, minerals processing, hydrometallurgical,  or other large-scale industrial operations, including experience managing cross-functional project teams and delivering measurable business value.
• Experience managing multi-site project portfolios.
• Experience leading capital and non-capital technology deployments.
• Experience managing external vendors and technology partners. Experience developing and managing project budgets exceeding $1M.
• Experience in mining, concentrator, hydrometallurgical, or large-scale process industries.
• Project management methodologies and governance.
• Portfolio prioritization and resource management.
• Business case development.
• Industrial communication and control system architecture.
• Ability to travel through the USA and internationally between 25-50% of the time.

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of Process Control, DCS, SCADA, and industrial communication systems.
• Process optimization technologies, and digital mining platforms.