Maintenance Superintendent, Lake Charles Refinery

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The Maintenance Superintendent reports to the Maintenance Manager and is responsible for the overall safety, productivity, quality, and development of mechanical maintenance crafts working on rotating equipment, fixed equipment, mobile equipment, and general refinery maintenance.  Equipment to be maintained includes but is not limited to pumps, compressors, complex piping systems, pressure vessels, towers, tanks, instrumentation, and utilities maintenance.  The successful candidate chosen for this position needs to be very detail oriented and knowledgeable regarding facility maintenance and have the ability to effectively manage routine maintenance resources.  This position requires the ability to prioritize, direct and coordinate maintenance work to ensure safe, reliable, and environmentally compliant operations while working with other maintenance personnel and functional groups.  Initiative, independent thought and judgment, and the ability to organize and prioritize work with minimal supervision is a must in this position.
 

Responsibilities May Include:

• Managing refinery tank API inspection and maintenance with responsibilities including 20-year long range plan (LRP), LRP budgeting, repair scope, schedule management, and repair execution
• Demonstrating commitment to safety and health excellence through strong personal engagement. Recognizing and stopping unsafe behavior, recognizing and eliminating safety hazards, following safe practices and procedures, and striving for continuous improvement of safety in the refinery
• Leading and ensuring compliance with safety policies and regulatory rules, such as incident reporting, incident investigations, Job Safety Analysis (JSA), Process Safety Management (PSM), safety meetings, safety and housekeeping audits, and environmental permit requirements
• Providing overall field execution oversight in the restoration, repair, replacement, troubleshooting, and preventative maintenance of rotating equipment, fixed equipment, mobile equipment, and general facility maintenance
• Leading the safety, productivity, work quality, and overall effectiveness of maintenance supervisors and hourly employees from multiple craft disciplines
• Planning, recommending, and adjusting for optimal staffing within areas of responsibility to ensure adequate resources are available to safely complete work within time and budgetary commitments during both routine maintenance and outages
• Participating in developing and managing the Area maintenance budget and department cost center budgets
• Tracking key performance metrics and takes initiative to ensure metrics meet or outperform targets
• Ensuring proper tools and personal protective equipment are available and utilized
• Providing input into development of daily work schedules to create effective, achievable, provide full crew utilization, and are understood by both supervisors and craft workers
• Participating in daily and other periodic meetings including operations coordination, maintenance updates, scheduling priorities, backlog reviews, staff meetings, supervisor training, etc.
• Communicating, presenting, and interacting effectively with other functional teams, management, corporate network resources, contract and vendor resources, and hourly workforce
• Collaborating effectively with engineering to improve reliability of equipment
• Reviewing maintenance plans with staff including job assignment, work steps, supplemental information, and safety issues
• Identifying and removing barriers to productivity and efficiency of work crews. Maximizing time on tools
• Motivating and building trust within team through open and consistent communications, constructive feedback, sound decision making, demonstrating technical aptitude, timely follow-up, and leading by example
• Oversee salaried maintenance employees to include engineers, MTR staff, and Maintenance Supervisors and develop leadership and technical expertise
   

Required Qualifications:

• Legally authorized to work in the job posting country
• High School diploma or GED equivalent
• 10 or more years of experience in a maintenance or construction role within a refinery or petrochemical environment
• Willing and able to obtain a Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC)
• Willing and able to perform and comply with the following: 
  • Work extended hours, which may include evenings, weekends and holidays 
  • Be on call 24/7/365
  • Respond to refinery emergencies during off-hours
  • Climb ladders and stairs up to 250 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 personal protective equipment (such as steel-toe shoes, ear and eye protection) 
  • Maintain your 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 Engineering or Construction Management
• 5 or more years of supervisory experience
• Experience with tank cleaning, tank inspection, and tank maintenance programs
• Strong reliability focus and background
• Experience with collective bargaining agreements
• Working knowledge of safe work practices
• Working knowledge of machinery, tooling, heavy equipment, welding, vendors, contract resources, and craft disciplines 
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and equipment maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals  
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form
• Working knowledge of SAP, Impact, KMS applications
• Intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Working knowledge of Process Safety Management (PSM)
• Strong interpersonal skills to facilitate work with both hourly and salaried employees, including effective communication skills (verbal and written) in both individual and group settings
• Leadership skills in a complex environment

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.

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• 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.

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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 04/07/2025.

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.