Engineer, Energy, Sweeny Refinery

Phillips 66 & YOU - Together we can fuel the future

As an Engineer, Energy, you’ll help improve the refinery’s energy performance, reliability, and emissions profile. You’ll analyze energy use across heaters, boilers, heat exchangers, and other refining process units. This is an opportunity to make a measurable impact on refinery performance and build your career at Phillips 66—Together we can fuel the future.

What You’ll Do

• Develop and analyze Energy Intensity Index (EII) and other site energy KPIs using historian, APM, utilities balance, and EII tools to identify trends and improvement opportunities.
• Identify and prioritize energy losses across heaters, boilers, heat exchangers, steam and condensate systems, pumps, and compressors; quantify energy, cost, and emissions opportunities and drive defect-elimination plans.
• Support routine refinery operations and abnormal conditions by evaluating and optimizing heater, boiler, heat exchanger, steam, power, and utilities performance within safe and reliable operating limits.
• Maintain a multi-year Energy Improvement Roadmap that connects operating improvements, maintenance and reliability actions, and capital projects to site margin, reliability, sustainability, and emissions goals.
• Develop preliminary economics for energy-related expense and capital projects and provide energy subject-matter expertise through design, MOC, HAZOPs, PSSRs, construction, commissioning, and related project reviews.
• Plan and support energy-related turnaround and outage work, including equipment improvements, steam and condensate repairs, metering, field troubleshooting, recommissioning, and post-turnaround benefit reviews.
• Improve energy metering, data quality, dashboards, and analytics in partnership with Instrumentation, Electrical, Process Control/APC, and digital teams; support HSE, process safety, incident investigations, corrective actions, and knowledge sharing.

What You’ll Bring – Required

• Legally authorized to work in the job posting country
• Bachelor’s degree an engineering discipline
• 3 or more years of experience in energy engineering, refinery or process engineering
• Willing and able to obtain a Transportation Worker Identification Card (TWIC)
• Valid driver’s license
• Must be willing and able, with or without reasonable accommodations, 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
  • Transport articles up to 50 pounds
  • Work safely near large, hot, high-speed machines
  • Climb ladders and stairs up to 200 feet in height
  • Work around chemicals, including acids and bases
  • Work around hydrocarbons under high pressure and heat
  • Work outside in harsh weather conditions
  • Wear fire-retardant clothing and required personal protective equipment, including steel-toe shoes, hearing and eye protection
  • Maintain facial hair in a manner that allows a respirator or face mask to seal properly

What Makes You Stand Out – Preferred

• 5 or more years of experience in refinery, energy, utilities, power, or process engineering
• Experience with Energy Intensity Index, energy balances, utilities balancing, heat integration, or refinery energy optimization
• Experience optimizing fired heaters, boilers, combustion, heat exchangers, steam and condensate systems, or large electrical drivers
• Experience with energy management systems, site historians, APM, EII tools, dashboards, or advanced analytics
• Experience developing energy project economics, capital justifications, and multi-year improvement roadmaps
• Experience with Management of Change, HAZOP/LOPA, PSSR, incident investigation, or turnaround planning
• Experience with process control or advanced process control applications for energy optimization
• Knowledge of API, ASME, AFPM energy benchmarks, emissions requirements, or related industry practices
• Experience with reliability improvement, defect elimination, bad-actor management, or KPI stewardship

Compensation Range 

This position has a base salary range of $127,800 – $156,200.

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 Sweeny Refinery is located in Old Ocean, Texas. Refinery facilities include crude distilling, naphtha reforming, fluid catalytic cracking, alkylation, hydrodesulfurization, and aromatics units, as well as access to the on-site vacuum tower and delayed coking unit, which is an asset owned by Phillips 66 Partners. Sweeny processes heavy, high-sulfur crude oil and some light, low sulfur crude oil. Domestic, Canadian and other foreign crude oil is transported by truck, pipeline, marine transportation and terminals. The refinery produces a high percentage of transportation fuels. Other products include petrochemical feedstocks, heating oil and petroleum coke. The refinery receives crude oil by pipeline and via tankers, through terminals on the Gulf Coast, including a deepwater terminal at Freeport. Refined products are distributed throughout the Midcontinent region, southeastern and eastern United States by pipeline, barge and rail car. Refined products are also exported to Latin America by waterborne cargo.

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 11/18/2026.

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.

Phillips 66 is an Equal Opportunity Employer