IT Area Lead, Lake Charles Refinery

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• Acting as a full business partner with the business unit leadership teams.
• Driving digital literacy throughout the business.
• Functioning as a supervisor for the area infrastructure, end user support team, and digital area coordinator.
• Functioning as a single point of contact for all IT areas, including Enterprise Applications such as SAP, for supported business units.
• Contributing as necessary to IT budget development, delivery, and reporting for the business.
• Representing and advocating the business unit’s interests and initiatives to IT.
• Representing and advocating for IT interests and initiatives to the business unit.
• Seeking innovative ways to improve the value of IT to the business.
• Seeking, recommending, and delivering cost-effective value-add opportunities.
• Utilizing leveraged IT services to meet customer needs.
• Ensuring IT initiatives are clearly connected to business results.
• Developing business requirements and technical specifications for systems supporting business processes.
• The understanding and management of Information Security risks.
• Effective contract and vendor services management.

• Legally authorized to work in the United State
• High School diploma/GED
• 5 or more years of experience in the information technology field
• 5 or more years of experience supporting IT systems
• Supervisory skills or experience running large projects
• Valid in-state driver’s license or be able to obtain one
• Willing and able to obtain a Transportation Worker Identification Card (TWIC). Information can be found at https://www.tsa.gov/for-industry/twic

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Management Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent
• 3 or more years of experience implementing digital solutions
• Knowledge of how refining and midstream business units operate
• Proven ability to identify and drive business value for IT solutions
• Strong leadership and management skills
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Able to influence individuals and groups
• Able to effectively interface with the refinery leadership team
• Create an environment of inclusiveness and foster communication
• Engender trust and confidence
• Enable productive local teams with strong partnerships across organizational boundaries
• Create an urgency for results and raise the bar for performance
• Be an active learner with good business knowledge

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 09/12/2025.

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.