Process Optimization Engineer

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The Process Optimization Engineer provides process technical expertise and services focused on technical support, including troubleshooting, monitoring, and optimization, to ensure optimum unit performance while adhering to safety and environmental standards. This role also involves small process engineering designs and project development support within area teams, interfacing with various departments across the refinery. 

Responsibilities May Include:

• Monitor and evaluate unit performance and maintain effective monitoring reports
• Troubleshoot operational and process quality problems
• Develop solutions for unit optimization and generate ideas for process design improvements
• Provide technical content for operating procedures and detailed process specifications
• Maintain and update P&ID's and equipment data sheets
• Complete process hazard analysis and fulfill process safety management (PSM) requirements
• Ensure full compliance with Management of Change (MOC) procedures
• Develop and monitor key performance metrics for assigned units
• Provide guidance to operations in line with environmental and operational requirements
• Manage capital and operating expense budgets
• Collaborate with other refinery departments and perform physical inspections including climbing ladders and towers
• Utilize DCS and advanced process control systems to optimize operating units

Required Qualifications:

• Legally authorized to work in the job posting country
• Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering
• 1 or more years of direct experience in refining and/or the chemical industry in the field of process engineering
• Valid driver's license

Preferred Qualifications:

• Catalytic reaction operational experience
• Strong oral/written communication skills and the ability to interact and work in a team environment
• Experience with process simulation programs such as Hysys, AspenPlus, or Petro-Sim
• Computer proficient including applications for Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint 

The Ponca City Refinery is located in Ponca City, Oklahoma, approximately 95 miles northwest of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Its facilities include crude distilling, naphtha reforming, fluid catalytic cracking, alkylation, hydrodesulfurization and delayed coking units. The refinery processes a mixture of light, medium and heavy crude oil delivered via pipeline from Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, the U.S. Rockies and Canada. Infrastructure improvements have enabled the delivery of locally produced crude oil by pipeline and truck. The refinery produces a high percentage of transportation fuels and anode-grade petroleum coke. Refined products are primarily distributed to customers by company-owned and common carrier pipelines to markets throughout 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

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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 07/31/2025.

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.