Manager, Process Engineering, Wood River Refinery

Phillips 66 & You - Together we can fuel the future

As a Manager, Process Engineering at Phillips 66, you will lead the process engineering discipline that supports our manufacturing operations. You will guide a team of engineering leaders and professionals who design and continuously improve the processes, equipment, and systems that keep our assets running safely, reliably, and efficiently. In this role, you will turn strategy into action, develop talent, and partner across the site to deliver projects and innovations that create lasting value.

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

• Lead the site's process engineering function by translating business strategy into clear goals, priorities, and performance expectations for your team, and by holding yourself and others accountable for delivering on commitments.
• Build, coach, and inspire a cohesive team of process engineers and leaders, setting clear roles, providing ongoing feedback, recognizing contributions, and creating an inclusive culture where diverse perspectives are heard and valued.
• Oversee the design, optimization, and continuous improvement of manufacturing and materials processes, including specifying process steps, equipment, and control schemes that meet safety, quality, reliability, and cost targets.
• Sponsor and manage a portfolio of capital and improvement projects by defining scope, sequencing work, allocating resources, and monitoring schedules, risks, and performance so projects are delivered safely, on time, and on budget.
• Establish, maintain, and continuously improve engineering standards, specifications, and technical practices for process design, equipment selection, and process automation, ensuring compliance with applicable codes, policies, and safety requirements.
• Use data, analytics, and structured problem-solving to make and enable timely, high-quality decisions on complex technical and business issues, balancing risk, cost, and value while empowering your team to decide at the right level.
• Collaborate closely with operations, maintenance, reliability, health and safety, and other partners to align priorities, share information early, resolve cross-functional issues, and remove barriers so teams can work together effectively across boundaries.
• Provide steady leadership through change by clarifying direction, adapting plans as conditions evolve, guiding the team through ambiguous situations, and ensuring lessons learned are captured and built into future work.
• Represent process engineering in site and company forums, communicating status, risks, and opportunities clearly and transparently, and influencing investment and strategy decisions with well-supported recommendations.

What You'll Bring - Required

• Legally authorized to work in the job posting country
• Bachelor's degree or higher in an engineering discipline
• 6 or more years of relevant engineering experience, including significant experience in process engineering, process control, APC, or a closely related discipline in oil and gas, manufacturing, petro-chemical, or related industry
• Possession of a valid driver's license
• Demonstrated technical leadership and/or mentorship
• 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 10%
  • Work extended hours, which may include evenings, weekends, and holidays, and perform occasional on-call duties
  • 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)

• Willing and able to obtain a Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC)

What Makes You Stand Out - Preferred

• 10 or more years of process or manufacturing engineering experience, including leading complex, multi-discipline projects and initiatives
• 3 or more years of people leadership, mentorship, or similar management experience
• Experience in refining, midstream, petrochemical, or other heavy industrial operations
• Proven success establishing and governing engineering standards, specifications, and work processes across a site or business
• Experience with process automation and control systems and related digital tools used to monitor and optimize manufacturing operations
• Track record of building strong cross-functional partnerships, leading through ambiguity, and enabling others to make high-quality, timely decisions aligned to business goals

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 Wood River Refinery is located in Roxana, Illinois, about 15 miles northeast of St. Louis, Missouri, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Refinery facilities include crude distilling, naphtha reforming, fluid catalytic cracking, alkylation, hydrocracking, hydrodesulfurization and delayed coking units. The refinery processes a mixture of light, low-sulfur; heavy, high sulfur; and high-acid crude oil. The crude supply is sourced domestically or from Canada. Wood River produces a high percentage of transportation fuels. Other products include petrochemical feedstocks, asphalt and petroleum coke. Refined products are distributed to customers by pipeline, rail car, barge and truck and are shipped to markets throughout the Midcontinent region.

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 co nsidered 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 07/26/2026 .

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: St Louis