Engineer I, Rotating Equipment, Lake Charles Refinery

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What to Expect
The Rotating Equipment Engineer is a technical position supporting routine maintenance of all rotating equipment within a refinery, reliability efforts, and small capital projects. The position helps ensure correct identification of failure mechanisms, timely technical assessment of repair plans and alternatives, provides technical knowledge to pump and turbine maintenance, development of turnaround scope, and overall availability and reliability of rotating equipment. 

What You’ll Do
•    Contribute to the planning, design, and implementation of key refinery rotating equipment to support safe and reliable operations.
•    Apply rotating equipment technical knowledge to support maintenance, operations, projects, turnarounds, and other mechanical integrity activities.
•    Assist in the installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of complex equipment and systems, ensuring timely and effective repairs.
•    Communicate and manage to resolution, emerging high-risk pump and compressor issues. 
•    Participate on small projects and help develop detailed engineering drawings, test procedures, and specifications to meet performance standards.
•    Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive process improvements and recommend technical enhancements.
•    Conduct root cause analyses, support risk-based inspections, and document best practices to address reliability issues for rotating equipment.
•    Ensure all engineering activities comply with regulatory and company standards, prioritizing safety and quality.
•    Invest in ongoing professional development to stay current with industry trends and contribute to a culture of innovation.

What You’ll Bring – Required

• Legally authorized to work in the job posting country
• Willing and able to obtain a Transportation Worker Identification Card (TWIC)
• 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)

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in an Engineering discipline

• 1 or more years of engineering experience in the energy industry

What Makes You Stand Out – Preferred
•    3 or more years of experience working as a Mechanical or Maintenance Engineer in the refining / petrochemical industry
•    Broad experience and understanding of refinery maintenance, operating, and project practices
•    Highly developed technical expertise with all types of rotating equipment
•    Knowledge of vibration, oil analysis and other predictive and condition monitoring techniques for rotating
•    equipment
•    Ability to apply technical expertise to problem solving while achieving broad business objectives
•    Personal discipline to balance short-term demands with long-term objectives
•    Ability to direct activities and priorities of others through influence
•    Ability to develop and communicate clear and specific strategies and tactics
•    Accepts ownership, is accountable, and delivers on commitments
•    Encourages creativity, innovation, and continuous improvement

Compensation Range:
•    $111,600 - $136,400 

The Lake Charles Refinery is located in Westlake, Louisiana. Refinery facilities include crude distilling, naphtha reforming, fluid catalytic cracking, alkylation, hydrocracking, hydrodesulfurization and delayed coking units. Facilities also include a specialty coker and calciner. The refinery processes a mixture of light to heavy, low- and high sulfur and low- and high-acid crude oils. It receives domestic, Canadian and other foreign crude oil through truck, pipeline, marine transportation and terminals, including the Beaumont and Clifton Ridge terminals and the Bayou Bridge Pipeline. Lake Charles produces a high percentage of transportation fuels. Other products include off-road diesel, home heating oil, feedstock for our Excel Paralubes joint venture, specialty graphite petroleum coke and petroleum coke. Refined products are distributed in the southeastern and eastern United States by truck, rail car, barge or pipelines and exported to Latin America and West Africa.

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 12/22/2025.

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.