Process Engineer, Margin and Strategy

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The Margin and Strategy Process Engineer plays a critical role in maximizing refinery profitability by analyzing and optimizing refinery performance, developing margin improvement strategies, and identifying and supporting long-term planning initiatives. This position bridges process engineering with commercial and planning, ensuring alignment between operational capabilities and market opportunities. This role requires comprehensive collaboration across operating, technical and optimization teams and is key to influencing overall margin performance and broader strategic decisions. 

Responsibilities May Include:

• Analyze and optimize refinery performance to maximize profitability

• Work with refinery, business, and planning teams to identify broader opportunities for progress

• Develop and implement margin improvement strategies
• Identify and support long-term planning initiatives
• Optimize and troubleshoot process operations
• Understand key economic measures and capture unrealized value
• Evaluate key performance data, including yields and reliability metrics
• Improve cost competitiveness and energy usage in processes
• Communicate and correct process quality problems
• Develop and drive the implementation of process improvements
• Provide technical support for major turnarounds and unit shutdown/startups on a shift schedule
• Provide process support and specifications for maintenance projects
• Exhibit Phillips 66 core values: start with safety, go with honor, and deliver with commitment

Required Qualifications:

• Legally authorized to work in the job posting country
• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering or a related field
• Hold and maintain a valid driver’s license
• 5 or more years of experience in refining, with a strong background in process engineering and/or economics & planning
• Proficiency in process simulation tools (e.g., Aspen HYSYS, Petro-SIM)
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Must be willing and able, with or without reasonable accommodation, to comply with the following:
  • Travel up to 5% of the time
  • Occasional on-call duties
  • Work extended hours, which may include evenings, weekends, and holidays
  • Work around chemicals, including acids and bases
  • Work around hydrocarbons under high pressure and heat
  • Wear fire retardant clothing and personal protective equipment (such as steel-toe shoes, ear and eye protection)
  • Maintain face daily so that a respirator/face mask can seal properly (some examples include being free of facial hair and/or clean shaven)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Linear Programming, SEEQ, etc.
• Ability to develop and evaluate business strategies using quantitative and qualitative data
• Six Sigma, Lean, or other process improvement certifications
• Excellent communication and presentation abilities
• Strong analytical and economic evaluation skill

The Wood River Refinery is located in Roxana, Illinois, about 15 miles northeast of St. Louis, Missouri, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Refinery facilities include crude distilling, naphtha reforming, fluid catalytic cracking, alkylation, hydrocracking, hydrodesulfurization and delayed coking units. The refinery processes a mixture of light, low-sulfur; heavy, high sulfur; and high-acid crude oil. The crude supply is sourced domestically or from Canada. Wood River produces a high percentage of transportation fuels. Other products include petrochemical feedstocks, asphalt and petroleum coke. Refined products are distributed to customers by pipeline, rail car, barge and truck and are shipped to markets throughout the Midcontinent region.

The base pay range for this role is $124,200 – $160,700 depending on a candidate's relevant work experience and education.

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 08/06/2025.

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.