Advisor, Labor and Employee Relations, Bayway Refinery

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The Advisor, Labor & Employee Relations is based at the Phillips 66 Bayway Refinery in Linden, New Jersey and provides specialized, professional labor and employee relations support to Refining business unit, as well as Midstream and Lubricants business units as necessary. Primary support for negotiating, maintaining, and ensuring adherence to the Company’s collective bargaining agreements. Investigates workplace policy violations and advises management on resolution options for issues that impact morale, productivity, and organizational performance.  The successful hire will be expected to work with peer HRBPs and business unit leaders to ensure consistent processes and practices across the region. 
 

Responsibilities May Include:

• Primary support for activities related to negotiating, maintaining, and ensuring adherence to CBAs; directly participate in union negotiations and serve as a point-of-contact for union representatives
• Oversees grievance process, including serving as company representative in grievance hearings, under applicable CBAs
• Provide direction and support to regional management on employee and labor relations including discipline, application of CBAs, grievances, and arbitrations
• Investigate workplace policy violations and advise regional management on options to remediate/prevent issues that impact morale, productivity, and organizational performance; determine, gather, and analyze information to evaluate workplace issues
• Investigate and respond to complaints from Federal and state agencies, including EEOC, DOL, and NLRB
• Provide advice, guidance, and professional support to regional management to interpret and apply policies, CBAs, practices, and procedures associated with labor and employee relations
• Evaluate and draft documentation associated with union-represented employees, including grievance responses and disciplinary actions, applying subject-matter expertise to support response(s) to complex situations
• Facilitate ongoing communication and working relationships with employee representative organizations including coordination of joint labor-management committees
• Develop full understanding of business objectives to align people strategies with business needs
• Execute on regional operational HR activities to support the business strategy
• Participate on special projects, as needed, related to delivering the strategic plans of the business
• Participate directly in the formulation and management of HR policies and procedures
• Ensure HR processes are consistent and in compliance across the organization 
   

Required Qualifications:

• Legally authorized to work in the job posting country
• Bachelor's degree
• Willing and able to obtain a Transportation Worker Identification Card (TWIC). Information can be found at https://www.tsa.gov/for-industry/twic
• 2 or more years of labor and employee relations and/or HR generalist experience
• Able to travel up to 10% of time 
   

Preferred Qualifications:

• Juris Doctor, or master’s degree in Human Resources or Industrial Relations
• 5 or more years of experience in labor relations and/or HR Management
• Labor relations experience in a manufacturing plant environment
• Supervisory experience
• Labor negotiations experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Broad HR technical expertise and systems knowledge

The Bayway Refinery is located on the New York Harbor in Linden, New Jersey. Bayway's facilities include crude distilling, naphtha reforming, fluid catalytic cracking, solvent deasphalting, hydrodesulfurization and alkylation units. The complex also includes a polypropylene plant with the capacity to produce up to 775 million pounds per year. The refinery processes mainly light and medium, low-sulfur crude oil. Foreign crude oil is supplied to the refinery by tanker, and domestic crude oil is supplied through a combination of rail and marine transportation. The refinery produces a high percentage of transportation fuels, as well as petrochemical feedstocks, residual fuel oil and home heating oil. Refined products are distributed to East Coast customers by pipeline, barge, rail car and truck.

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

This position is eligible for the Phillips 66 geographic differential pay program. Details and terms to be conveyed in offer of employment.

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 10/14/2024.

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.