Laboratory Superintendent, Billings Refinery

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The Laboratory Superintendent works under the general direction of a Laboratory Lead. The LPS leads a team of technicians while working to ensure that product testing, sampling, and accurate results are produced. The LPS takes a proactive approach to ensuring optimal laboratory performance is obtained, high quality data reporting is produced, and certification of refinery products are accurate
 

Responsibilities May Include:

• Accounting for safely planning, communicating, and executing the daily operation of the laboratory
• Supervising and leading a group of employees while ensuring that job assignments, training support, people development, and performance feedback are available
• Ensuring the laboratory and contract resources safely perform assigned work within established policies and procedures
• Administering the labor contract, lab staffing, inventory management, purchasing supplies, maintenance callouts, and discipline of direct reports
• Driving operational excellence by supporting: refinery/unit optimization, screening samples/priorities, lab equipment troubleshooting, and serve as the primary contact for pipeline related personnel
• Applying lessons learned from company incidents, investigate and report incidents, lead safety discussions, and conduct routine safety audits
• Overseeing processes used for logging of samples, reviewing data quality, performing tests, and the certification of refinery products prior to pipeline/truck shipments
   

Required Qualifications:

• Legally authorized to work in the job posting country
• High School Diploma or GED equivalent
• Valid Driver's license
• 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:

• Bachelor’s Degree 
• 3 or more years of experience working in a refinery laboratory or regulated laboratory setting
• Experience working in a laboratory setting (especially gas chromatography)
• Experience working as a supervisory or leadership role
• Experience working with represented employees
• Experience with SAP
• Working knowledge with Laboratory equipment troubleshooting
• Intermediate level of proficiency with Microsoft Office
• Working knowledge of Labvantage or other LIMS system

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.

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

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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.

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 03/12/2025.

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.