Rotating Equipment Superintendent
Billings, MT, US, 59101
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The Rotating Equipment Superintendent is responsible for overseeing the reliability, maintenance, and performance optimization of all rotating equipment within the refinery. This role focuses on asset integrity, continuous improvement, compliance, and operational excellence, ensuring the refinery meets long-term reliability and production goals while minimizing unplanned downtime.
Responsibilities May Include:
- Ensure all rotating equipment activities comply with OSHA, API, ANSI, and corporate safety standards
- Promote a strong safety culture by reinforcing best practices in LOTO (Lockout/Tagout), hazard recognition, and safe maintenance procedures
- Ensure compliance with EPA, PSM, and reliability-centered maintenance standards for rotating equipment
- Oversee the maintenance, troubleshooting, and upgrades of all rotating equipment, including pumps, compressors, turbines, fans, and gearboxes
- Develop and implement predictive and preventive maintenance strategies to improve equipment reliability and availability
- Lead Root Cause Analysis (investigations and drive corrective action implementation for equipment failures)
- Work closely with operations, engineering, and maintenance teams to ensure proper care and operation of rotating assets
- Manage and mentor a team of rotating equipment frontline supervisor, reliability specialists, and technicians to develop technical expertise
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement, teamwork, and accountability within the reliability organization
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams to align maintenance and reliability strategies with refinery objectives
- Support equipment upgrades, reliability improvement projects, and digital transformation initiatives
- Ensure all project work aligns with refinery goals, budget constraints, and long-term reliability needs
Required Qualifications:
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a full-time, unrestricted basi
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Minimum 5 years of experience in rotating equipment reliability, maintenance, or engineering within a refining, petrochemical, or heavy industrial environment
- Extensive knowledge of centrifugal and reciprocating compressors, pumps, steam turbines, and gear systems
- Strong understanding of condition monitoring techniques, including vibration analysis, oil analysis, and thermography
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), SAP, and reliability software for data analysis, reporting, and maintenance planning
- Willing and able to obtain a Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) card
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field
- Minimum 5 years of leadership experience in a rotating equipment reliability or maintenance role
- Certified in vibration analysis, reliability engineering (CRE), or rotating equipment diagnostics
- Direct experience in refinery and/or chemical plant operations, with a deep understanding of industry-specific challenges
- Knowledge of API 610, API 618, API 671, API 686, and other relevant rotating equipment standard
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary teams
- Hands-on experience with Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS), predictive maintenance tools, and asset performance management programs
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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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 07/28/2025.
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.
Nearest Major Market: Billings
Nearest Secondary Market: Montana