Sr Specialist I, Process Control, Lake Charles Refinery

Phillips 66 & YOU - Together we can fuel the future

As a Sr Specialist I, Process Control at our Lake Charles Refinery, you will contribute to the reliability, performance, and continuous improvement of the process control systems that support safe and efficient refining operations. This opportunity offers meaningful engineering work across Phillips 66's connected facilities, where your technical recommendations and solutions will help improve the technology, processes, and equipment that keep the refinery running.

What You'll Do

• Evaluate process-control solutions and recommend technical developments that improve the performance, reliability, and effectiveness of control systems, equipment, and related processes.
• Support Operations, Maintenance, and Technical Services by diagnosing technical issues, developing practical solutions, and providing direction for safe resolution of process-control problems.
• Design, test, validate, and refine control-system solutions, including logic, graphics, configuration changes, engineering drawings, and related technical documentation.
• Monitor process-control system performance and analyze trends, histories, reports, and other data to identify opportunities to improve process-unit performance and support sound decisions.
• Support maintenance, capital, and turnaround work by developing scope, hardware and logic designs, testing plans, commissioning activities, start-up support, and implementation documentation.
• Lead or participate in root cause analyses, preventive maintenance planning, and troubleshooting projects for process-control equipment failures and recurring operating issues.
• Support management-of-change activities, system migrations, upgrades, alarm-management improvements, spare-parts planning, and configuration management for assigned process-control assets.
• Provide technical guidance and training to operators, craft professionals, and plant engineers, and coordinate with vendors, contractors, and site personnel to deliver effective solutions.
• Respond to unexpected repair needs and operational upsets, making timely independent decisions and escalating issues when appropriate.

What You'll Bring - Required

• Legally authorized to work in the job posting country
• Bachelor's degree
• 3 or more years of experience
• Valid driver's license
• Willing and able to obtain a Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC)
• Willing and able to respond to off-hours support requests, including weekends and holidays, for turnarounds and operational upsets and participate in a weekly callout rotation
• Intermediate experience with Honeywell DCS platforms (Experion PKS and/or TPS)

What Makes You Stand Out - Preferred

• At least 10 years of equivalent combination of education and/or experience with emphasis on instrumentation and automation control systems in the refining industry
• Experience implementing or troubleshooting Allen Bradley, Triconex, Foxboro IA, Siemens TDC 3000, GE Bently Nevada, and/or Ovation systems
• Experience with DCS and/or PLC software or hardware upgrades
• Experience with process-control system design, system integration, commissioning, verification and validation testing, configuration management, or engineering data analysis
• Experience coordinating the work of others or providing technical guidance on engineering or process-control activities
• Experience using performance measures, metrics, and trend analysis to evaluate solution effectiveness and identify improvement opportunities

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 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 b e 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 12/03/2026 .

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: Lake Charles