Sr Specialist I, Environmental, Ponca City Refinery

Phillips 66 & YOU - Together we can fuel the future

The Sr. Environmental Specialist I, Ponca City Refinery coordinates environmental activities and programs for Phillips 66 assets located at the Ponca City Refinery.

What You’ll Do

• Maintain and continuously develop comprehensive knowledge of applicable environmental regulations and permits.
• Lead regulatory advocacy and track new or proposed rules impacting the business.
• Obtain, amend, and renew construction and operating air permits.
• Provide regulatory and permitting guidance to Operations, Functional Support, and Project Managers.
• Assess regulatory and permit requirements with consideration of business risk and interpretive variability.
• Support projects by conducting environmental evaluations, permitting, and overall environmental activity management.
• Deliver cost‑effective environmental solutions to Operations, Asset Engineering, and Project Teams.
• Summarize new or revised permits and regulations for leadership, other stakeholders, and affected functions.
• Communicate updates to Environmental Policies, Procedures, Guidance, and Forms to Program and System Specialists.
• Define environmental training needs and develop or coordinate environmental training for the asset.
• Prepare required environmental reports and notifications in a timely manner.
• Support agency (federal, state, and local) environmental inspections.
• Participate in Health, Safety, and Environmental (“HSE”) audits (internal and external).
• Foster effective relationships with regulatory agencies, communities, and asset.
• Support emergency response efforts, including but not limited to spill calculations, agency/community reporting, air media management, and remediation guidance along with internal and external spill drills.
• Ensure asset Environmental Operating Limits (“EOLs”) are current, documented, monitored, proactively communicated (especially when a limit is being approached), and understood by the customer.
• Maintain compliance records for rolling throughputs, emissions, and similar compliance requirements.
• Support Management of Change (“MOC”) program for all actions that have environmental impacts.
• Create and manage Environmental preventive maintenance (“PM”) activities in Systems, Applications, and Products (“SAP”) with accurate due dates and lead time.
• Accurately manage spills, environmental events, compliance issues, Notices of Violations (“NOVs”), and agency inspections in P66 systems.
• Maintain thorough environmental documentation, including compliance reports, permits, correspondence, notifications, and editable working files.

What You’ll Bring - Required

• Legally authorized to work in the United States
• High School Diploma or GED
• Valid Driver’s License
• Willing and able to travel up to 25% of the time
• 5 or more years of environmental compliance experience
• Working knowledge of EPA regulations including Title V, New Source Performance Standards (“NSPS”), Maximum Achievable Control Technology (“MACT”), and other local, regional, state and federal environmental requirements

What Makes You Stand Out - Preferred

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering, Environmental Science, Chemistry, or other science discipline
• Experience with Environmental Management Systems (“EMS”)
• Trained in Emergency Response Incident Command System (“ICS”) and procedures

Compensation Range 

This position has a base salary range of $136,800 - $167,200. 

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, cultivate an environment of trust, seek different perspectives and pursue 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 02/12/2026.

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.