Maintenance Engineer, Lake Charles Refinery

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The Maintenance Engineer's primary focus is to restore failed systems and equipment to operable conditions and to minimize downtime. Provide engineering expertise to improve maintenance performance and to enhance safety and unit reliability.

Responsibilities May Include

• Improving the maintainability, operability and running condition of unit equipment
• Identifying and investigating chronic equipment failures and developing correction action plans
• Participating in technical networks to develop and implement best practices
• Supporting equipment reliability initiatives and proactively applying technical expertise
• Working with planners as needed to ensure repair plans meet all Phillips 66 standards
• Supporting Unit MOC’s by providing supporting documentation and equipment information as needed
• Ensuring equipment repairs meet Phillips 66 standards
• Evaluating equipment upgrades, repairs, replacements for economical merit
• Participating in scope development for turnarounds
• Generating capital/project budget proposals
• Participating in maintenance budget, capital budget, and strategic projects
• Participating in all discipline specific engineering forums sponsored by the reliability group
• Providing the Craft Supervisor with engineering support as needed.
• Providing engineered repair plans.
• Technical trouble shooting.
• Participating in TA scope development and LRP for maintenance improvements
• Networking with other P66 facilities and industry experts to share expertise and implement best practices.
• Effectively managing multiple projects concurrently
• Participating as needed on teams associated with major project, business improvement, optimization, reliability, safety, and environmental compliance activities
• Expecting to temporarily backfill positions on the team as needed
• Work Turnarounds as required
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Legally authorized to work in the job posting country
• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Civil, or Electrical Engineering
• 1 or more years of direct experience in refining and/or the chemical industry
• Willing and able to obtain a Transportation Worker Identification Card (TWIC). Information can be found at https://www.tsa.gov/for-industry/twic
• Must be willing and able, with or without reasonable accommodation, to comply with the following:
• Travel up to 5% of the time
• Occasional on-call duties
• Work extended hours, which may include evenings, weekends, and holidays
• Transport articles up to 50 pounds
• Work safely near large, hot, high-speed machines
• Climb ladders and stairs up to 200 feet in height
• Work around chemicals, including acids and bases
• Work around hydrocarbons under high pressure and heat
• Work outside in harsh weather conditions
• Wear fire retardant clothing and personal protective equipment (such as steel-toe shoes, ear and eye protection)
• Maintain face daily so that a respirator/face mask can seal properly (some examples include being free of facial hair and/or clean shaven)
  

Preferred Qualifications

• 3 years of experience in refining maintenance, operations, and/or projects
• Technical experience with all types of equipment within their engineering discipline
• Working knowledge of vibration, oil analysis and other predictive and condition monitoring techniques for rotating and fixed equipment
• Ability to apply technical expertise to problem solving while achieving broad business objectives
• Personal discipline to balance short term demands with long term objectives
• Demonstrated ability to work in diverse teams
• Ability to set clear priorities
  
  

The Lake Charles Refinery is located in Westlake, Louisiana. Refinery facilities include crude distilling, naphtha reforming, fluid catalytic cracking, alkylation, hydrocracking, hydrodesulfurization and delayed coking units. Facilities also include a specialty coker and calciner. The refinery processes a mixture of light to heavy, low- and high sulfur and low- and high-acid crude oils. It receives domestic, Canadian and other foreign crude oil through truck, pipeline, marine transportation and terminals, including the Beaumont and Clifton Ridge terminals and the Bayou Bridge Pipeline. Lake Charles produces a high percentage of transportation fuels. Other products include off-road diesel, home heating oil, feedstock for our Excel Paralubes joint venture, specialty graphite petroleum coke and petroleum coke. Refined products are distributed in the southeastern and eastern United States by truck, rail car, barge or pipelines and exported to Latin America and West Africa.

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Benefits

At Phillips 66, providing access to high quality programs and care for you and your family is important to us. Maintaining a culture of well-being — physical, emotional, social, and financial — is essential for a high-performing organization. When we are at our best, we are poised to deliver exceptional results — personally and professionally. Benefits for certain eligible, full-time employees include:

• Annual Variable Cash Incentive Program (VCIP) bonus
• 8% 401k company match
• Cash Balance Account pension
• Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits with an annual company contribution to a Health Savings Account for employees on HDHP
• Total well-being programs and incentives, including Employee Assistance Plan, well-being reimbursement, and backup family care services
  
  

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Phillips 66 has more than 140 years of experience in providing the energy that enables people to dream bigger and go farther, faster. We are committed to improving lives, and that is our promise to our employees and our communities. We are sustained by the backgrounds and experiences of our diverse teams, which reflect who we are, the environment we create and how we work together. We have been recognized by the Human Rights Campaign, U.S. Department of Labor and the Military Times for our continued commitment to inclusive practices and policies in the hiring and retention of those in the LGBTQ community and military veterans. Our company is built on values of safety, honor and commitment. We call our cultural mindset Our Energy in Action, which we define through four simple, intuitive behaviors: We work for the greater good, create an environment of trust, seek different perspectives and achieve excellence.

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To be considered

In order to be considered for this position you must complete the entire application process, which includes answering all prescreening questions and providing your eSignature on or before the requisition closing date of 03/21/2025 .

Candidates for regular U.S. positions must be a U.S. citizen or national, or an alien admitted as permanent resident, refugee, asylee or temporary resident under 8 U.S.C. 1160(a) or 1255(a)(1). Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, or TN or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.

Phillips 66 is an EEO and Affirmative Action Employer of Women/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities