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 in-person position is performed onsite at Freeport-McMoRan's corporate project office in New Orleans, LA. In accordance with Freeport-McMoRan's requirement for all employees who are working or attending a meeting onsite at the Phoenix corporate office, if you are hired you will be required to submit proof that you are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to entry, unless the company has granted a medical or religious accommodation.

Description

(New Orleans, LA)
Works under limited supervision and has significant latitude to set objectives, priorities and timelines that may affect a group or functional area within the company. Manages electrical power projects, which may be part of much larger project scopes, including scoping, contracting, engineering design, procurement, and construction management activities within the mining company. Coordinate between many internal and external support groups including operations, legal, contracts, environmental to meet company objectives and advance project in accordance with safety, schedule, and financial expectations.

• Responsible for planning and implementation of a wide variety of major capital electrical projects on new and existing infrastructure and overseeing/managing all aspects of project execution. Collaborating with and mentoring project teams, site leaders, consultants, grid operators and utilities.
• Work with and mentor project team members to define service (load or generation) requirements, infrastructure alternatives, project execution strategies, and supporting contractors.
• Initiate and oversee interconnection activities with utilities and regional transmission organizations, including defining input parameters, study requirements, and interconnection and service agreements.
• Perform engineering and financial evaluation of major capital project proposals, and emerging technologies.
• Oversee consultants and contractors engaged in performing services or studies related to transmission, distribution, generation, or load.
• Responsible for strategic planning and overseeing the execution of the safety, engineering, procurement, construction, and customer service for capital projects within the company.
• Responsible for the development and delivery of scope, cost, schedule, safety, management, and quality associated with electrical infrastructure projects within the mining company.
• Manage budget preparation and monitor work performance cost controls for projects.
• Analyze and recommend solutions to a wide range of problems effecting operations.
• Support senior project managers in projects with a value in excess of $2 billion
• Perform other duties as requested

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• This position requires air travel. In accordance with Freeport-McMoRan's requirement for all employees whose job requires travel by air, if you are hired you will be required to submit proof that you are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to travel by air, unless the company has granted a medical or religious accommodation.
• High School Diploma and thirteen (13) years of engineering experience in an area or areas relevant to assignment, including supervisory or lead experience as well as prior project management experience; OR
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or closely related area, and eight (8) years of engineering experience in an area or areas relevant to assignment, including supervisory or lead experience as well as prior project management experience; OR
• Master's degree in Engineering or closely related area, and six (6) years of engineering experience in an area or areas relevant to assignment, including supervisory or lead experience as well as prior project management experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Able to research and analyze information of considerable difficulty and draw valid conclusions
• Broad knowledge of the principles and practices of electrical engineering with an understanding of mechanical and process engineering techniques
• Skilled in effective communications, both verbal and written, including the ability to actively listen and to adapt behavior and communication style based upon the audience
• Ability to develop and maintain awareness of occupational hazards and safety precautions
• Skilled in following safety practices, and recognizing, controlling and/or eliminating hazards
• Ability to build trust and credibility with leadership/contractors and establish common goals and expectations
• Professional Accreditations such as PE, PMP, CEM
• Experience in utility generation/interconnections, large-scale industrial project management
• Bilingual in Spanish

Criteria/Conditions:

• Must be able to frequently sit, stand and walk.
• Must be able to frequently lift and carry up to 10 pounds.
• Must be able to work in a potentially stressful environment.
• Personal protective equipment is required when performing 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 safey-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 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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