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Process Controls Specialist, Billings Refinery

Phillips 66
Billings, MT Full Time
POSTED ON 3/19/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/17/2025
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The Process Controls Specialist maintains the process control asset base under direction of the Process Control Supervisor. The process controls asset base includes the Distributed Control System (DCS), the Safety Instrumented System (SIS), as well as the Process Controls Network (PCN). The Process Controls Specialist is an advocate for best practices in the design, selection, implementation, maintenance, and sustainability of the process control asset base to ensure that company guidelines, policies, procedures, regulatory, production, and optimization objectives are achieved at the Billings Refinery.

Responsibilities May Include

  • Manage and maintain hardware and software for distributed control systems and safety instrumented systems to achieve automation and operational objectives
  • Communicates effectively with operations, maintenance, process, and project engineering vendors, contractors, etc. to address problems and coordinate safe work in the refinery
  • Support refinery alarm management, console health metrics, alarm data, alarm reporting, and rationalization activities
  • Act as technical resource on instrumentation and control for Instrument Craftsmen and other groups
  • Assist project group with instrumentation and control engineering activities on capital projects
  • Assist with support of system networking and security, including monitoring and maintenance of domains, network equipment, application of system patches and updates, etc.
  • Drive and / or participate in the MOC process including initiation, evaluation, completing assigned work, and startup safety reviews
  • Monitor and maintain performance of regulatory and advanced controls
  • Develop, recommend, and manage the process controls maintenance program and spare parts inventory for supported equipment and systems to reduce downtime and improve system reliability
  • Support turnarounds by developing process control work scope
  • Maintain an ongoing planned and prioritized work list developed with engineers, maintenance supervisors, instrument technicians, and operations
  • Supervise and coordinate contractors performing work on control and safety systems

Required Qualifications

  • Legally authorized to work in the job posting country
  • High School diploma or GED
  • 1 or more years of experience in a refinery, petrochemical and/or industrial plant environment
  • 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:
    • 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 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

  • Associates Degree in Engineering Technology, Instrumentation, I/E, or Electronics
  • 3 or more years of experience maintaining hardware and software for distributed control systems
  • Knowledge of process controls and control systems
  • Knowledge of safety instrumented systems
  • Knowledge of instrumentation for flow, level, pressure, temperature, and analytical measurement
  • Experience with Emerson Delta V controls systems
  • Experience with Emerson SIS
  • Experience with Industrial Control Systems and Networking
  • Ability to work effectively as a member of the multi-discipline technical team supporting electrical, instrumentation, and process control systems
  • Understand and use functional expertise to contribute to the success of the business
  • Establishes priorities and develops critical tasks
  • Accepts ownership, is accountable, and delivers on commitments
  • Balances short-term and long-term priorities
  • Oriented toward continuous learning

The Billings Refinery is located in Billings, Montana. Its facilities include crude distilling, naphtha reforming, fluid catalytic cracking, alkylation, hydrodesulfurization and delayed coking units. The refinery processes a mixture of Canadian heavy, high-sulfur crude oil delivered by pipeline, and domestic crude oil delivered by truck. With the startup of a new vacuum distillation unit in 2017, the refinery has 100 percent heavy crude processing capability. The refinery produces a high percentage of transportation fuels and petroleum coke. Finished petroleum products are distributed by pipeline, rail car and truck. Pipelines transport most of the refined products to markets in Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Colorado and Washington.

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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

Learn more about Phillips 66 Total Rewards .

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.

Learn more about Phillips 66 and how we are working to meet the world's energy needs today and tomorrow, by visiting phillips66.com.

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 04/01/2025 .

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

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