Manager, Laboratory, Borger Refinery

Phillips 66 & YOU - Together we can fuel the future

As the Manager, Laboratory at Phillips 66, you will lead a team of lab professionals responsible for ensuring the quality, safety, and reliability of our products and processes. You will connect daily testing work to our broader business goals, turning data into insights and decisions that protect our operations and customers. This is a chance to shape how our lab operates, develop a high-performing team, and drive continuous improvement across our quality systems.

At Phillips 66, Lead Forward is our leadership approach. It defines how leaders show up, make decisions, and support their teams while delivering results in a complex, fast-changing environment. Leaders at this level focus on setting clear direction, building trust, and helping their teams succeed. You’re expected to act with integrity, make timely and thoughtful decisions, and take ownership of outcomes while supporting collaboration across teams. This role is about leading people well, even when priorities change or the path forward isn’t always clear.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and develop the lab team to deliver safe, reliable, and compliant quality assurance for products and materials, linking daily work to Phillips 66’s strategy and fostering a culture of trust, accountability, and integrity.
• Own the lab’s quality management system and testing processes by monitoring and improving policies, procedures, and methods; designing and validating complex test methods; and ensuring alignment with internal, customer, and regulatory standards.
• Champion health, safety, and environmental performance in the lab, tracking key indicators, addressing noncompliance, and reinforcing expectations so safe, compliant work is how the team operates every day.
• Build and coach a high-performing, inclusive lab team by setting clear expectations, providing regular feedback and development plans, recognizing achievements, and enabling cross-training and growth opportunities.
• Partner across operations, engineering, supply chain, and commercial teams to understand needs, share insights from lab data, align priorities, and remove obstacles so quality considerations are embedded in business decisions.
• Use data from lab results and other sources to analyze trends, assess risks, and recommend actions on product quality, process performance, and material suitability, especially when information is incomplete or evolving.
• Plan and manage lab resources, budgets, and schedules to meet commitments, optimizing work processes and adapting plans as priorities shift while keeping the team focused on the most important outcomes.
• Lead change in the lab by identifying gaps in current practices, testing and implementing improvements, and guiding the team through transitions with clarity, stability, and a focus on driving better results.

What You’ll Bring – Required

• Legally authorized to work in the job posting country
• Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Engineering, or a related scientific discipline
• 6 or more years of relevant professional experience in quality assurance, laboratory management, or a related technical field
• 3 or more years of experience planning and managing resources and leading teams
• Intermediate proficiency using data and statistical tools, such as Six Sigma or similar methodologies, to analyze quality trends and drive continuous improvement

What Makes You Stand Out – Preferred

• 8 or more years of experience in quality assurance, laboratory management, or a related technical field
• Experience working as a chemist in a laboratory or industrial setting
• Experience in the energy, refining, chemicals, or related process industries
• Demonstrated success implementing or enhancing quality management systems, including development of testing methods, procedures, and documentation
• Proven track record building cohesive, cross-functional teams and leading through change while maintaining high standards for safety, compliance, and decision quality

Compensation Range 

This position has a base salary range of $160,200 - $195,800.

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.

The Borger Refinery is located in Borger, Texas, in the Texas Panhandle, approximately 50 miles north of Amarillo, Texas. Refinery facilities include crude distilling, naphtha reforming, fluid catalytic cracking, alkylation, hydrodesulfurization and delayed coking units. The refinery processes primarily medium sour crude oil produced locally, and heavy sour crude oil produced in Canada, all of which are delivered by pipeline. Borger produces a high percentage of transportation fuels, as well as petroleum coke, NGLs and solvents. Refined products are distributed to customers via pipelines from the refinery to West Texas, New Mexico, Colorado and the Midcontinent region.

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 06/24/2026.

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.