Environmental Manager

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The Environmental Manager is responsible for providing overall leadership and coordination of environmental affairs for the Lake Charles Refinery. Responsibilities include development, implementation, and management of cost-effective strategies and systems. The role will ensure compliance, meet environmental needs of the business, and help ensure the refinery is a welcomed neighbor in the community.

Responsibilities May Include:

• Strongly reinforce safety-first attitude and culture that no one gets hurt
• Be a visible leader and role model for regulatory compliance and environmental commitment
• Lead and provide guidance to direct reports, taking an active role in training and personal development of each
• Recruit and provide training for new environmental personnel
• Lead efforts to ensure that environmental compliance gaps are identified and addressed in a timely fashion 
• Provide strong line of sight about how everyday activities can have an impact on our environmental performance
• Provide strategic leadership for environmental issues and activities that impact LCR, seeking strategies that provide maximum benefit to the company, promote and support company core values, minimize future liability, and differentiate the company from its competitors
• Ensure proper and adequate supervision for contractors directed by environmental personnel
• Champion development and integration of sustainable HSE Management Systems
• Identify differences in systems/approaches, and then drive consistent implementation of best practices
• Ensure the environmental group provides cost-effective advice and services based on a thorough understanding of laws, regulations, and available technology
• Track and interpret new and developing regulations
• Ensure that regulatory reporting obligations are met
• Drive identification and implementation of better, more efficient and cost-effective ways to meet environmental requirements
• Provide a conduit to understand environmental processes/systems available outside of the function and look for opportunities for implementation
• Be an active participant in the P66 HSE leadership teams
• Create and sustain a supportive partnership relationship between environmental professionals and operating personnel 
• Monitor key leading and trailing environmental performance indicators and initiate appropriate intervention if metrics indicate unacceptable trends
• Represent the refinery in external affairs related to environmental aspects including discussions with regulatory agencies and other external stakeholders

Required Qualifications:

• Legally authorized to work in the job posting country
• Bachelor’s degree
• 8 or more years of environmental experience
• Willing and able to obtain a Transportation Worker Identification Card (TWIC). Information can be found at https://www.tsa.gov/for-industry/twic
• Must be willing and able, with or without reasonable accommodation, to comply with the following:
  • Travel up to 5% of the time
  • On-call duties
  • Work extended hours, which may include evenings, weekends, and holidays
  • Transport articles up to 40 pounds
  • Climb ladders and stairs up to 200 feet in height
  • Work around hydrocarbons under high pressure and heat
  • Work outside in harsh weather conditions
  • 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:

• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Sciences or related
• Able to communicate clear direction, strategies, goals and expectations, provides clear feedback in a coaching fashion
• Able to encourage teams to accomplish results, while driving the company’s core values
• Able to utilize approaches that require innovation and embrace change
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent influence management skills
• Change and improvement driven
• Commitment to work processes, procedures and systems
• Self-motivated, accountable and delivers on commitments
• Engenders trust and creates free flow of information with internal & external stakeholders
• Encourages innovation and continuous improvement.
• Able to apply planning and organizational skills needed to address multiple issues simultaneously and solve complex problems through prioritization and focus
• Able to function effectively in difficult and potentially contentious situations
• Able to manage environmental compliance requirements with good cost control
• Has understanding of refining organization
• Recognized as having broad understanding of HSE function
• Has a well-developed network inside and outside of the organization
• Incorporates process tools in the analysis of alternatives

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

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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 11/11/2024.

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.