Freeport-McMoRan is a leading international mining company with headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona. We operate large, long-lived, geographically diverse assets with significant proven and probable reserves of copper, gold, and molybdenum. The company has a dynamic portfolio of operating, expansion and growth projects in the copper industry. Freeport-McMoRan is one of the world's largest publicly traded copper producers, the world's largest producer of molybdenum and a significant gold producer. We have a long and successful history of conducting our business in a safe, highly efficient and socially-responsible manner.

We have the assets, the talent, the drive and the financial strength to provide attractive and rewarding careers of our employees. We encourage you to take the time to explore the opportunity to advance your career at Freeport-McMoRan.

Please note: This position has the possibility to work remotely up to 100% of the time. The position will require occasional travel to the Phoenix corporate offices and/or site locations. This position may be performed anywhere in the U.S. except California, New Hampshire, Michigan, Illinois and New York. Additional states may be excluded from remote work based on business factors. Should the position shift to in-office work in the future, the company will offer relocation benefits at that time should the position meet the established eligibility for these benefits.

Description

Serve as the system expert for:
• Capacities Forecast and Production Planning
• Inventory Management processes
Provide support to Global Planning for managing operations planning aspects to support Production & Capacity Planning, and Inventory Optimization. Develop the ability to determine for sites(s) on when and how much to produce to align with inventory targets for global planning managers on metallurgical and chemicals to support sales demand. Identify and improve business/process systems and practices on operations planning to make and maintain finished goods and develop all components to run planning with an ERP type of focus.

• Maintain capacity forecast for long term planning and run time forecasting for short term planning processing sites to ensure production plans aligned to support inventory needs. Review run time plans from site Planners for alignment to plan needs at Climax processing sites.
• Lead planning to develop the monthly draft on outlook forecast on concentrate feed receipts and global operations plans to support inventories of FG and interim feed stock that aligns with mine forecasts, asset capacities vs inventory targets on finished goods (FG).
• Develop five-year plans once a quarter utilizing sales demand and capacity forecast while leveraging stakeholders at sites in operations and global planning team.
• Evaluate for Toll opportunities at sites in terms of asset capacities available after meeting Climax Sales book.
• Oversee the development and maintenance of site planning tools for feed outlook in order to publish weekly scorecards to evaluate for plan conformance.
• Oversee inventory drivers, review process end inventory needs, transportation lead times and FG to develop target inventories and safety stock.
• Supervise site Planner for Byproduct Leach processing.
• Perform other duties as requested

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree and four (4) years of operations planning and inventory management experience in a manufacturing environment, including lead or supervisory experience; OR
• High School diploma or GED and eight (8) years of operations planning and Inventory management experience in a manufacturing environment, including lead or supervisory experience
• Skilled in the use of MS Office (Word, Presentation and Excel)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Operations/Production planning experience preferably in a mining or chemicals industry

Physical Demands & Work Environment:

• Personal protective equipment is required when performing work in a mine, outdoor, manufacturing or plant environment, including hard hat, hearing protection, safety glasses, safety footwear, and as needed, respirator, rubber steel-toe boots, protective clothing, gloves and any other protective equipment as required.
• Freeport-McMoRan promotes a drug/alcohol-free work environment through the use of mandatory pre-employment drug testing and on-going random drug testing as allowed by applicable state laws

Freeport-McMoRan has reviewed the jobs at its various office and operating sites and determined that many of these
jobs require employees to perform essential job functions that pose a direct threat to the safety or health of the
employees performing these tasks or others. Accordingly, the Company has designated the following positions as
safety-sensitive:

• Site-based positions, or positions which require unescorted access to site-based operational areas, which are
  held by employees who are required to receive MSHA, OSHA, DOT, HAZWOPER and/or Hazard Recognition
  Training; or
• Positions which are held by employees who operate equipment, machinery or motor vehicles in furtherance of
  performing the essential functions of their job duties, including operating motor vehicles while on Company
  business or travel (for this purpose "motor vehicles" includes Company owned or leased motor vehicles and
  personal motor vehicles used by employees in furtherance of Company business or while on Company travel); or
• Positions which Freeport-McMoRan has designated as safety sensitive positions in the applicable job or position
  description and which upon further review continue to be designated as safety-sensitive based on an
  individualized assessment of the actual duties performed by a specifically identified employee.

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