Process Engineer, Lake Charles Refinery
Westlake, LA, US, 70669
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The Process Engineer provides process technical expertise and services focused on enhancing the safety, reliability and profitability of the process units. This position interfaces with all departments throughout the refinery including operations, maintenance, optimization, and technical services
Responsibilities May Include:
- Develop, monitor, and evaluate unit performance metrics
- Maintain effective monitoring reports
- Troubleshoot operational and process quality problems
- Generate and implement ideas/opportunities for unit optimization
- Develop process design improvement projects for strategic and real business improvement
- Participate as required in major project activities
- Provide technical content for operating procedures
- Complete process hazard analysis and process safety management requirements, including action items
- Ensure full management of change compliance with all activities
- Support catalyst management activities
- Maintain assigned process safety information
- Provide guidance to operations consistent with environmental and operational requirements
- Assist in preparation and maintenance of capital and operating expense budget
- Interface with Licensors for technical support
- Support unit turnarounds including work list identification/justification, procedure writing and reviews, equipment inspection
- Provide day-to-day support of the respective operating unit to meet short-term and long-term operating plans and the refinery business plan
Required Qualifications:
- Legally authorized to work in the job posting country
- Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering
- 1 or more years of relevant industry experience
- Willing and able to obtain a Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC)
- Must be willing and able to comply with the following:
- Travel up to 5% of the time
- Occasional on-call duties
- Work extended hours, including evenings, weekends, and holidays
- Work safely near large, hot, high-speed machine
- Climb ladders and stairs up to 200 feet in height
- Work around chemicals, including acids and bases
- Work around hydrocarbons under high pressure and heat
- Wear fire retardant clothing and personal protective equipment
- Maintain face daily for respirator/face mask sealing
Preferred Qualifications:
- Understands and uses functional expertise to contribute to the success of the business
- Demonstrated knowledge of industrial safe work practices and standards
- Ability to establish work priorities based on greatest business needs
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with ability to effectively interact and work in a team environment
- Encourages creativity, innovation, and continuous improvement
- Experience with process simulation programs
- Computer proficient, including applications for word processing, spreadsheets and process database systems (PI)
- Committed to continuous learning and ongoing self-development
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.
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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 06/10/2025.
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