Associate Scientist, Research

Phillips 66 & YOU - Together we can fuel the future

As an Associate Scientist, Process Integrity in our Energy Research & Innovation organization, you will join a team that provides technical support to the business to keep Phillips 66’s refining, midstream, and renewables assets running reliably. You’ll support forensic analysis, troubleshooting, and reliability work that helps sites diagnose failures, protect equipment, and maintain product quality. Working closely with experienced project leads, you’ll execute well-defined investigations, generate high-quality data, and build the technical foundation to grow into a subject-matter expert over time.

This is an entry-level role designed for someone who is dependable, coachable, safety-focused, and eager to learn. You’ll take ownership of assigned work, communicate clearly, and deliver reliable results that project leads and business stakeholders can act on with confidence.

What You’ll Do

• Execute assigned tasks, discrete experiments, and well-defined projects across Process Integrity’s technical areas - including foulant and contamination forensics, corrosion support, product and fuels quality, and crude quality - delivering data and observations with guidance from senior team members.
• Apply standard engineering and scientific methods, analytical techniques, test procedures, and tools consistently and with procedural discipline, safe execution, and strong data quality.
• Collate and analyze data using established tools, methods, and formats; make accurate calculations and clear observations; and identify anomalies, escalating exceptions when the cause, risk, or business implication is unclear.
• Contribute to reports and summaries that communicate technical findings. With guidance from senior team members, you will translate results into clear conclusions for internal and site stakeholders.
• Respond to routine internal and external queries with accurate information on defined processes and procedures, referring interpretive questions to senior peers.
• Use approved AI and digital tools under guidance for routine tasks, verifying outputs and flagging anomalies.
• Track your own commitments, follow prescribed project-management practices, and flag schedule or resource issues early so work is delivered within defined time, quality, and method requirements.
• Build your technical capability through training, feedback, and mentoring from senior team members, while contributing constructively to team safety efforts and workgroup goals.

What You’ll Bring - Required

• Legally authorized to work in the job posting country
• Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, or a related scientific or engineering field
• 1 or more years of relevant experience (including education) applying standard scientific or engineering methods, laboratory techniques, or data analysis

What Makes You Stand Out - Preferred

• Ability to execute defined procedures with attention to safety, data quality, and procedural discipline
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, with a coachable, accountable, and quality-focused approach

• Degree emphasis or coursework in analytical chemistry, corrosion and materials, metallurgy, or petroleum/refining processes
• Hands-on laboratory experience with analytical or test methods (e.g., chromatography, spectroscopy, microscopy, electrochemical testing, or wet-chemical techniques)
• Familiarity with the refining or renewables value chain, or with crude, fuels, feedstock, and finished-product quality
• Experience collecting, cleansing, and interpreting data using standard analytical or scientific software and reporting tools
• Exposure to failure analysis, fouling, corrosion, or contamination troubleshooting in an industrial or research setting
• Familiarity with ASTM or other standard test methods and quality practices
• Demonstrated curiosity, strong problem-solving fundamentals, and the ability to work well within a team

Compensation Range 

This position has a base salary range of $96,300 – $117,700.

At Phillips 66, we are committed to pay transparency and competitive, equitable compensation. Each role is assigned a salary grade with a defined pay range, benchmarked against industry peers. Where a candidate offer falls within the posted range depends on the candidate's experience, skills, and alignment with the role’s requirements. Offers are made to ensure internal equity and market competitiveness. Our compensation programs are designed to reward performance and support career growth.

Total Rewards

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, cultivate an environment of trust, seek different perspectives and pursue 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 9/16/2026.

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.