Specialist I, Lab Chemist, Sweeny Refinery

Phillips 66 & YOU - Together we can fuel the future

As a Specialist I, Lab Chemist at Phillips 66, you will help ensure laboratory products, services, and processes meet established quality and regulatory standards. You will work with technical and operational partners to evaluate results, strengthen procedures, and support reliable, compliant performance. This opportunity offers hands-on quality assurance work, exposure to continuous improvement, and the chance to provide practical guidance that helps the organization operate with confidence.

What You'll Do

• Perform a defined range of complex laboratory quality assurance tests, interpret results, and identify corrective actions needed to confirm specifications and conformance.
• Plan and coordinate testing and inspections for laboratory processes and activities, monitor results, and follow through on corrective actions and continuous improvement work.
• Design and execute activities that generate evidence for validating new and existing quality assurance test methods and procedures.
• Collect, analyze, and report quality data to identify trends, monitor defect rates, evaluate process effectiveness, and support clear decisions.
• Develop, test, and maintain procedures, guidelines, and quality documentation that support internal policies, regulatory requirements, and industry standards.
• Identify and escalate noncompliance with policies, procedures, regulations, or codes of conduct, and help track actions through completion.
• Develop and deliver technical training using established content, and create learning materials when gaps in methods, tools, or programs are identified.
• Partner across professional teams to resolve quality issues, share information, provide technical guidance, and maintain trusted working relationships.

What You'll Bring - Required

• Legally authorized to work in the job posting country
• Bachelor's degree in Chemistry
• 1 or more years of experience in laboratory testing
• Possess a valid driver's license
• Must be willing and able, with or without reasonable accommodations, to comply with the following:
  • Operate company vehicle on site premises and/or public roads 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)

What Makes You Stand Out - Preferred

• 3 or more years of laboratory experience within the energy industry
• Working knowledge of environmental water testing
• 4 to 6 months of experience coordinating the work of others
• Experience in laboratory quality assurance, testing, inspection, or validation
• Experience developing and delivering technical training or using learning management systems
• Experience using electronic quality or compliance reporting tools and structured data analysis methods
• Experience providing technical guidance on quality processes, procedures, and regulatory requirements
• Quality assurance principles, processes, and testing methodologies
• Quality management software and testing tools
• Quality data collection, analysis, reporting, and quality control chart analysis
• Six Sigma analysis
• Policy and procedure management

Compensation Range


This position has a base salary range of $102,600 - $125,400.

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 Sweeny Refinery is located in Old Ocean, Texas. Refinery facilities include crude distilling, naphtha reforming, fluid catalytic cracking, alkylation, hydrodesulfurization, and aromatics units, as well as access to the on-site vacuum tower and delayed coking unit, which is an asset owned by Phillips 66 Partners. Sweeny processes heavy, high-sulfur crude oil and some light, low sulfur crude oil. Domestic, Canadian and other foreign crude oil is transported by truck, pipeline, marine transportation and terminals. The refinery produces a high percentage of transportation fuels. Other products include petrochemical feedstocks, heating oil and petroleum coke. The refinery receives crude oil by pipeline and via tankers, through terminals on the Gulf Coast, including a deepwater terminal at Freeport. Refined products are distributed throughout the Midcontinent region, southeastern and eastern United States by pipeline, barge and rail car. Refined products are also exported to Latin America by waterborne cargo.

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 10/29/2026 .

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.

Phillips 66 is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Nearest Major Market: Houston