Sr Specialist I, Continuous Improvement, Ferndale Refinery

Phillips 66 & YOU - Together we can fuel the future

As a Sr Specialist I, Continuous Improvement, you will lead the day-to-day continuous improvement program that drives safer, more reliable, and more profitable operations. You’ll partner with refinery leadership to align site initiatives with our Strategy-In-Action model and long-term vision, turning data and ideas into impactful projects. In this role, you’ll champion Lean and continuous improvement practices, helping teams connect front-line work to bottom-line results at Phillips 66. 

What You’ll Do 

• Lead the day-to-day activities of the continuous improvement team, aligning refinery initiatives with the Strategy-In-Action model and the objectives of the Refining Pillars. 

• Perform gap analyses against internal and external benchmarks (including Solomon), define future-state processes, and develop and implement site tactics and initiatives to close performance gaps. 

• Facilitate ideation sessions, workshops, and prioritize and size initiatives, and help shape the long-term vision for the refinery. 

• Analyze and model business processes, data, and workflows to identify improvement and automation opportunities, designing smart workflows that integrate work performed by people and digital tools. 

• Build and maintain scorecards, dashboards, and other KPI reporting to measure solution performance and margin impact, using business intelligence and advanced analytics to recommend next actions. 

• Partner with refinery leaders, workstream leads, initiative owners, Finance, and other stakeholders to align initiatives with budgets and plans, monitor progress in tools such as Wave, and regularly communicate results and learnings. 

• Champion a continuous improvement and Lean culture by coaching, mentoring, and training colleagues, co-owning People Pillar goals, and embedding CI ways of working into everyday practices. 

• Serve as an active member of the refining-wide continuous improvement network, sharing best practices, coordinating with other business units, and contributing to enterprise standards for process improvement and change. 

What You’ll Bring – Required 

• Legally authorized to work in the job posting country

• Bachelor’s degree

• 5 or more years of relevant experience in continuous improvement, process improvement, or business analysis in the oil and gas, energy, petrochemical, or similar industry

• Willing and able to obtain a Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) 

What Makes You Stand Out – Preferred 

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering

• Prior involvement in continuous improvement projects in a refining or manufacturing environment

• Experience with Lean or other structured process improvement methodologies 

• Experience working on Solomon study submissions and using benchmarking insights to drive performance improvements

• Experience with business process modeling, workflow management, and process automation tools

• Experience building and using scorecards, dashboards, and advanced analytics (including basic machine learning or AI techniques) to monitor performance and support decisions

• Demonstrated success leading change and influencing cross-functional teams without direct authority

Compensation Range 

This position has a base salary range of $141,300 - $172,700.

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.

The Ferndale Refinery is located on Puget Sound in Ferndale, Washington, approximately 20 miles south of the U.S.-Canada border. Facilities include crude distillation, naphtha reforming, fluid catalytic cracking, alkylation and hydrodesulfurization units. It processes a variety crude oils, including Alaskan North Slope, Canadian and other foreign and U.S. shale crudes, primarily delivered via marine vessel and pipeline. Within the refinery is a rail car crude oil receiving facility with a capacity of 30,000 BPD. This offloading facility, owned by Phillips 66 Partners, makes the receipt of additional crude by rail car possible. The refinery produces a high percentage of transportation fuels. Other products include residual fuel oil, which is supplied to the northwest marine bunker fuel market. Most refined products are distributed to customers by pipeline and barge to major markets in the northwestern United States.

Benefits

At Phillips 66, we are proud to offer attractive and high-quality benefits which we refer to as Total Rewards. Additional information on 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 07/01/2026.

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.