Superintendent III, Operations, Sweeny Refinery

Phillips 66 & YOU - Together we can fuel the future

As the Operations Superintendent , you will lead multi-shift manufacturing operations to ensure safe, reliable, and cost-effective production. In this role, you guide a skilled workforce, integrate production processes across departments, and maintain alignment with business goals while driving continuous improvement.

What You'll Do

• Lead daily production activities across assigned shifts, ensuring safe, efficient, and reliable execution of manufacturing plans while maintaining output, quality, and cost targets.
• Oversee and integrate production processes, equipment performance, and workflow coordination across multiple shifts or departments to support continuous, balanced operations.
• Develop and adjust short-term production schedules, ensuring alignment of labor, materials, and machine loading with operational priorities and changing business needs.
• Coordinate closely with planning, maintenance, and operations teams to troubleshoot issues, minimize downtime, resolve equipment or process disruptions, and maintain steady production flow.
• Guide, coach, and support production employees by providing clear expectations, performance feedback, and day-to-day direction to build capabilities and ensure accountability.
• Champion safety, health, and environmental compliance by reinforcing safe work practices, identifying hazards, and ensuring adherence to company and regulatory standards.
• Track production performance, analyze operational data, and recommend improvements to production flow, methods, or systems to increase productivity and reduce waste.
• Identify and address noncompliance issues, escalating concerns as appropriate and ensuring corrective actions are implemented to maintain policy and regulatory alignment.

What You'll Bring - Required

• Legally authorized to work in the job posting country
• High School Diploma or GED equivalent
• 6 or more years of production or manufacturing experience
• Ability to troubleshoot equipment, workflow, and process-related issues
• Possess a valid driver's license
• Must be willing and able, with or without reasonable accommodation, to comply with the following:
  • Travel up to 5%
  • 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

• Experience in the Energy, Oil and Gas, or heavy industrial manufacturing sectors
• Proficiency with SAP or other production management systems
• Demonstrated success improving production flow, methods, or manufacturing processes
• Strong communication, planning, and conflict management skills to support diverse teams
• Experience coordinating multi-shift or multi-department production activities

Compensation Range


This position has a base salary range of $141,300 - $172,700.


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 07/07/2026 .

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