Mechanical Engineer, Projects

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The Mechanical Engineer, Projects provides leadership, technical expertise, and business perspective in all areas related to refinery fixed equipment and piping.  This role will involve capital project execution, engineering, procurement, and construction.  This role ensures projects are technically sound and that they achieve safety, reliability and environmental objectives and are consistent with PSM management of change.

Responsibilities May Include:

• Keep abreast of new developments in areas of mechanical and maintenance engineering and utilize where available and appropriate
• Executing projects and ensuring conformance with Phillips 66 Required Standards, Recommended Engineering Practices and relevant codes and industry standards
• Assuring appropriate design conditions and metallurgy requirements are met
• Performing bolted joint assessments for flanged connections
• Reviewing and consulting on equipment layout and piping routing
• Reviewing and consulting on metallurgy selection, welding procedures and inspection requirements
• Coordinating mechanical engineering aspects of the MOC process
• Reviewing project design packages and providing design input to ensure that site requirements and preferences are met 
• Promoting and assisting with the management and development of work processes, standards, best practices, and guidelines for efficient engineering design and construction
• Ensuring project scope and cost is controlled and change is managed
• Establishing priorities, deliverables and deadlines aligned with capital project strategies
• Successfully managing competing priorities and multiple projects simultaneously  
• Accountable for managing time to deliver on commitments
• Ensuring project scope and cost is controlled and change is managed

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent
• 10 or more years petrochemical or related industry experience
• Experience and understanding of plant maintenance, operating, and project practices
• Ability to apply technical expertise to problem solving while achieving broad business objectives
• Personal discipline to balance short-term demands with long-term objectives
• Willing and able to travel 25% of the time 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in mechanical engineering
• Experience in design, fabrication and construction of fixed equipment and piping
• Experience working with EPC contractors
• Experience with insulation and refractory
• Experience with painting and coatings
• Experience with various solids handling equipment (conveyors, bucket elevators, bridge cranes, etc.)
• Experience with welding/welding engineering
• Willing and able to relocate to Houston, TX
• Ability to direct activities and priorities of others through influence
• Ability to develop and communicate clear and specific strategies and tactics
• Accepts ownership, is accountable, and delivers on commitments
• Drives company core values
• Encourages creativity, innovation, and continuous improvement

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 07/21/2025.

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.