Sr Manager, Automation, Borger Refinery

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As the Sr Manager, Automation, you will lead the team that owns our distributed control, advanced process control, and automation systems that keep the refinery safe, reliable, and optimized. You’ll combine hands on technical leadership with people development, guiding controls engineers and specialists while shaping the long term automation and APC strategy for the site. This is an opportunity to influence high impact decisions, champion innovation, and collaborate across operations, maintenance, and engineering to improve process safety, operability, and profitability.

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 a high‑performing controls team, setting clear goals, managing performance, building capabilities, and modeling safety, integrity, and accountability in line with our leadership expectations.
• Own the refinery’s control system strategy and lifecycle, including distributed control systems (DCS), PLC interfaces, advanced process control (APC), and other stand‑alone controls, to meet safety, regulatory, production, and optimization objectives.
• Design, standardize, and continuously improve APC and process control solutions, including development and testing of APC applications, inferred properties, control strategies, and alarm management to drive process safety, operability, and profitability.
• Oversee engineering standards, compliance, and cybersecurity for control systems, including networks, domains, system software upgrades, hardware migrations, documentation, and alignment with corporate standards, process safety management, and security requirements.
• Lead a portfolio of automation and control projects from concept through commissioning and startup, managing scope, schedule, and budget while partnering with operations, maintenance, process and project engineering, vendors, contractors, and corporate experts.
• Champion refinery safety and operational excellence by actively supporting the safety program, providing guidance during startups, shutdowns, and upsets, and participating in incident investigations and Management of Change reviews.
• Break down barriers and build cohesive, cross‑functional relationships across the refinery and enterprise, managing stakeholder expectations and facilitating effective collaboration to solve complex issues and implement change.
• Use data and strategic analysis to drive quality decisions, including reporting and optimization of control system performance metrics and contributing to longer‑term automation and APC roadmaps and budget planning.

What You’ll Bring – Required

• Legally authorized to work in the job posting country

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline
• 10 or more years of engineering experience in the Energy, Chemical, or related industry
• 6 or more years of experience managing teams and planning and organizing engineering resources
• Possess a valid driver's license
• Must be willing and able, with or without reasonable accommodation, to comply with the following:
  • Travel up to 5%
  • Operate company vehicle on site premises and/or public roads up to 10%
  • Work extended hours, which may include evenings, weekends, and holidays, and perform occasional on-call (24/7) duties
  • Transport articles up to 50 pounds
  • Climb ladders and stairs up to 200 feet
  • Work safely near large, hot, high-speed machines, around chemicals and hydrocarbons under high pressure and heat, and in harsh weather conditions
  • Wear fire retardant clothing and personal protective equipment
  • Maintain face daily for proper respirator/face mask seal (some examples include being free of facial hair and/or clean shaven)

What Makes You Stand Out – Preferred

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Chemical Engineering; advanced degree preferred
• 12 or more years of engineering experience, including extensive leadership of controls or APC teams in manufacturing, refining, or chemical environments
• Knowledge and understanding of distributed control systems, advanced process controls, networks, and operating systems
• Direct experience in the refining and/or chemical industry, including automation and control applications in these settings
• Knoweldge of Emerson DeltaV and DeltaV Safety Instrumented Systems
• Experience with Honeywell ProfitSuite and other APC or optimization platforms
• Experience with Alteryx, Tableau, or similar tools for data analytics, reporting, and visualization
• Proven ability to lead complex automation projects, coach diverse technical teams, and make thoughtful, timely decisions in ambiguous or rapidly changing conditions

Compensation Range 

This position has a base salary range of  $158,400– $ 226,600.

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 11/23/2026.

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.