Manager, Maintenance, Lake Charles Refinery

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The Maintenance Manager is responsible for the overall safety, productivity, quality, and development of mechanical maintenance crafts working on rotating equipment, fixed equipment, mobile equipment, and general plant 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 Superintendent is detail oriented and knowledgeable regarding facility maintenance and able 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.

At Phillips 66, Lead Forward is our leadership approach. It defines how leaders show up, make decisions, and support their teams while delivering results in a complex, fast‑changing environment. Leaders at this level focus on setting clear direction, building trust, and helping their teams succeed. You’re expected to act with integrity, make timely and thoughtful decisions, and take ownership of outcomes while supporting collaboration across teams. This role is about leading people well, even when priorities change or the path forward isn’t always clear.

What You’ll Do

• Demonstrate commitment to safety and health excellence through strong personal engagement. Recognize and stop unsafe behavior, recognize and eliminate safety hazards, follow safe practices and procedures, and strive for continuous improvement of safety in the refinery.
• Lead and ensure 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.
• Manage refinery API inspection and maintenance, including budgeting, repair scope, schedule management, and repair execution.
• Provide overall field execution oversight for the restoration, repair, replacement, troubleshooting, and preventative maintenance of rotating equipment, fixed equipment, mobile equipment, and general facility maintenance.
• Lead the safety, productivity, work quality, and overall effectiveness of maintenance supervisors and hourly employees from multiple craft disciplines.
• Plan, recommend, and adjust staffing within areas of responsibility to ensure adequate resources are available to safely complete work within time and budgetary commitments during routine maintenance and outages.
• Participate in developing and managing the Area maintenance budget and department cost center budgets.
• Track key performance metrics and take initiative to ensure metrics meet or outperform targets.
• Ensure proper tools and personal protective equipment are available and utilized.
• Provide input into the development of daily work schedules to create effective, achievable schedules, provide full crew utilization, and ensure schedules are understood by supervisors and craft workers.
• Participate in daily and other periodic meetings, including operations coordination, maintenance updates, scheduling priorities, backlog reviews, staff meetings, and supervisor training.
• Communicate, present, and interact effectively with other functional teams, management, corporate network resources, contract and vendor resources, and the hourly workforce.
• Collaborate effectively with engineering to improve equipment reliability.
• Review maintenance plans with staff, including job assignments, work steps, supplemental information, and safety issues.
• Identify and remove barriers to crew productivity and efficiency. Maximize time on tools.
• Motivate and build trust within the team through open and consistent communication, constructive feedback, sound decision-making, technical aptitude, timely follow-up, and leading by example.
• Oversee salaried maintenance employees, including Maintenance Supervisors, and develop leadership and technical expertise. 

What You’ll Bring - Required

• Legally authorized to work in the United States
• High School diploma or GED equivalent
• 6 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 
  • 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)
     

What Makes You Stand Out - Preferred

• 10 or more years of refinery/petrochemical maintenance experience
• 5 or more years of supervisory experience
• Experience with maintenance planning and execution in turnaround work processes
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Construction Management
• Strong reliability focus and background
• Experience with collective bargaining agreements
• Working knowledge of Process Safety Management (PSM)
• Ability to facilitate turnaround and outage scopes
• Working knowledge of SAP, PM, MM modules, and turnaround planning and execution tools (IPS, STO, ECR)

Compensation Range 

This position has a base salary range of $160,200 - $195,800.

At Phillips 66, we are committed to pay transparency and competitive, equitable compensation. Each role is assigned a salary grade with a defined pay range, benchmarked against industry peers. Where a candidate offer falls within the posted range depends on the candidate's experience, skills, and alignment with the role’s requirements. Offers are made to ensure internal equity and market competitiveness. Our compensation programs are designed to reward performance and support career growth.

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, cultivate an environment of trust, seek different perspectives and pursue 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 09/27/2026.

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.