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.

Energy Management & Hydraulics Modeling Engineer

Location: 

Houston, TX, US, 77042

Job Field:  Engineering

Phillips 66 & YOU - Together we can fuel the future 

 

The Energy Management & Hydraulics Modeling Engineer helps ensure reliable energy supply for the Company's pipeline, gathering and processing infrastructure. This role offers a diverse mix of responsibilities that span from detailed data analysis and operational support to strategic utility management and energy usage reduction through hydraulic modeling and demand response activities. This position is a chance to make a meaningful impact on the Company's operational backbone, promoting energy reliability and efficiency across the Company's pipeline network by interacting with a diverse group of stakeholders in Operations, Engineering, Commercial and Trading.

 

Responsibilities May Include:

  • Cost Optimization and Rate Analysis: Identify opportunities to reduce costs and enhance electrical performance across operations by working with stakeholders. Regularly perform rate analyses—comparing billed utility data against tariffs or contracted rates, evaluating utility rates, researching tax exemptions, and seeking new savings opportunities. Address anomalies in usage or charges for timely resolution.
  • Utility Account and Vendor Management: Oversee the entire lifecycle of utility accounts by collaborating with bill-pay providers and field staff to activate, verify, and deactivate accounts, ensuring alignment with pipeline asset data. Maintain strong relationships with utility vendors, supporting field requests, managing agreements, and coordinating service changes or maintenance needs. Assist with budgeting, accruals, and ongoing reconciliation of utility billing to support Accounting & Finance teams and deliver financial accuracy.
  • Energy Nominations and Resource Planning: Manage monthly and daily nominations for electricity, natural gas, and DRA usage, coordinating with vendors, providing estimates, and responding to operational flow orders as needed.
  • Reporting and Data Analysis: Monitor and report on key operational and financial metrics—including pipeline cost per barrel mile, Station Cost per Barrel, and Terminal Cost per Barrel. Integrate utility outage information from vendor sources for accurate tracking. Oversee daily and quarterly usage data collection and reporting, including Drag Reducing Agent (DRA) management for EPA compliance.
  • Hydraulic Modeling Optimization: Develop and tune hydraulic models for steady-state and transient pipeline studies, apply pump and compressor expertise, and simulate scenarios to address business needs, drive operational efficiency, and support growth or system optimization initiatives.

 

Required Qualifications:

  • Legally authorized to work in the job posting country
  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Energy Management, Environmental Science, or related field
  • 3 years related work experience in the petroleum industry
  • Understanding of basic Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Modeling
  • Understanding financial plans, analysis, forecast, and economic studies

 

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 5 or more years of experience in the petroleum industry
  • 1 or more years of experience in energy management economics and contract negotiation
  • Proficient in working with large data sets, consolidating information into clear deliverables, and utilizing energy modeling software, data analysis tools, and Microsoft Office applications
  • Experience in reviewing and interpreting financial plans, forecasts, studies, and analyses, as well as negotiating and executing contracts
  • Knowledge of:
    • regulated and de-regulated utility markets
    • pipeline and/or hydrocarbon processing operations
    • modeling techniques, uses, limitations and fundamental drivers of energy markets
    • economic forces and drivers of supply and demand
    • regulated and de-regulated utility markets
  • Experience with DOT regulated and unregulated pipeline hydraulic simulation and optimization pipeline systems in Petroleum Liquid, NGL, Chemical, and Gas operation
  • Advanced or greater proficiency in the use of multiple hydraulic modeling software packages and tools including: Synergi Pipeline Simulator (SPS), including Model Lab; Nextgen; WinFlow; OLGA; VMG Symmetry; AFT Fathom; Aspen HYSYS; Promax; and others)

 

Midstream

The Phillips 66 Midstream business is a safe, reliable, and trusted provider for the movement, storage, gathering, and processing of liquid or gas energy via pipelines or terminals. We are an industry leader in logistics and operate or manage more than 70,000 miles of pipelines that transport crude oil from oil fields to refineries and finished products from refineries to storage terminals. We operate 39 terminals that supply finished products to consumer gas stations, as well as crude oil and NGL storage terminals and NGL fractionation facilities. Our capabilities include extensive natural gas gathering and processing operations, enhancing our wellhead-to-market strategy. We also provide the connectivity between the various Phillips 66 business units.

 

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, 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 08/18/2025.

 

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.

 

Phillips 66 is an Equal Opportunity Employer

 


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