Specialist III, Maintenance Planning
Ponca City, OK, US, 74602-1267
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What to Expect
As a Maintenance Planning Specialist, you will be at the heart of our daily operations, ensuring that every maintenance activity is thoughtfully coordinated and executed. This position offers the opportunity to work closely with skilled teams, apply your expertise in planning and problem-solving, and make a real impact on our plant’s reliability and performance. This position will be accountable for developing maintenance work plans per the Operation Directed Maintenance (ODM) Work Process, generating accurate job packages and cost estimates, and creating task lists for repeatable jobs utilizing SAP.
What You’ll Do
- Develop and manage detailed schedules and plans for routine maintenance, overhauls, and inspections to optimize equipment use and minimize downtime.
- Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to review proposals, resolve priorities, and ensure maintenance activities align with plant goals and regulatory standards.
- Create accurate job packages, estimate labor and materials, and build task libraries for repeatable jobs using SAP and other planning tools.
- Analyze completed work, update maintenance histories, and monitor multiuse components to maintain precise asset records and support continuous improvement.
- Partner with craftspeople and supervisors to critique and refine plans, ensuring each job is executed efficiently and safely.
- Support turnaround planning, manage documentation, and communicate job status to schedulers.
- Help implement quality assurance initiatives, comply with all safety and regulatory requirements, and provide guidance on complex maintenance issues.
- Leverage your technical expertise and commitment to excellence to contribute to a productive, safe, and collaborative work environment.
What You’ll Bring – Required
- Legally authorized to work in the job posting country.
- Must be willing and able, with or without reasonable accommodations, to comply with the following:
- Travel up to 5%
- Work extended hours, which may include evenings, weekends, and holidays, and perform occasional duties.
- Transport articles up to 50 pounds
- Climb ladders and stairs up to 200 feet
- Work safely near large, hot, high-speed machines, around chemicals and hydrocarbons under high pressure and heat, and in harsh weather conditions.
- Wear fire-retardant clothing and personal protective equipment.
- Maintain face daily for proper respirator/face mask seal. (some examples include being free of facial hair and/or clean shaven)
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- 3 or more years of craft or operations experience in the Energy industry
What Makes You Stand Out – Preferred
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 5 or more years of craft or operations experience in the Energy industry
- 5 or more years of experience in maintenance planning related to safety, craft knowledge, materials, CPM logic, and logistics
- Proficiency working in Microsoft Suites (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
- Proficiency in SAP for the ODM work process (MM, PM, PS modules)
- Ability to plan multi-craft jobs
- Working knowledge of engineering, safety, and IHS standards and procedures
- Able to read and perform material take-offs from isometrics and equipment drawings
- Understands and uses functional expertise to contribute to the success of the business
- Ability to read, interpret and apply information from files, drawings, catalogs, reports and manual
Compensation Range
This position has a base salary range of $124,200 - $151,800.
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 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
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 01/30/2026.
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.