Maintenance Planning Specialist, Lake Charles Refinery
Westlake, LA, US, 70669
Phillips 66 & YOU - Together we can fuel the future
As a Maintenance Planning Specialist II, you will play a pivotal role in helping keep our operations running smoothly and safely. This position is at the heart of our maintenance team, where your knowledge in organizing, prioritizing, and coordinating maintenance activities directly impacts plant reliability and performance. You’ll be a resource for translating technical needs into actionable plans, ensuring every detail is in place for successful maintenance execution. Your work will help drive operational excellence, support a culture of safety, and make a tangible difference in the day-to-day success of our refinery.
What You’ll Do
- Develop and manage detailed maintenance schedules and plans for routine overhauls and inspections to optimize plant resources and minimize downtime.
- Coordinate with engineering and operations teams to review proposals, adjust schedules, and analyze work returns to measure maintenance effectiveness.
- Plan and allocate resources for complex projects, maintain accurate maintenance histories, and ensure compliance with safety standards and regulatory requirements.
- Create and refine planning packages, manage documentation, and support continuous improvement initiatives to enhance reliability and efficiency.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to resolve scope and resource needs, providing clear communication on job status and delivering complete work packages that maximize craft productivity.
- Leverage tools like SAP to build and update task libraries, track equipment changes, and support turnaround planning.
- Drive quality assurance, data analysis, and process optimization, contributing to a culture of safety and collaboration.
- Proactively ensure maintenance activities align with organizational goals and deliver lasting value to the operation.
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 18 years of age
- 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)
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- 3 or more years of craft or operations experience in the Energy industry
What Makes You Stand Out – Preferred
- Associate’s or Bachelor’s Degree
- 5 or more years of craft or operations experience in the Energy industry
- 5 or more years of experience in maintenance planning related to safety, craft knowledge, materials, CPM logic, and logistics
- Proficiency working in Microsoft Suites (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
- Proficiency in SAP for the ODM work process (MM, PM, PS modules)
- Ability to plan multi-craft jobs
- Working knowledge of engineering, safety, and IHS standards and procedures
- Able to read and perform material take-offs from isometrics and equipment drawings
- Understands and uses functional expertise to contribute to the success of the business
- Ability to read, interpret and apply information from files, drawings, catalogs, reports and manual
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
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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 11/09/2025.
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.
Nearest Major Market: Lake Charles