As a
Mechanical Engineer, you will provide mechanical engineering support to the maintenance and turnaround organization. This position coordinates the Engineering and Design process for maintenance and turnaround scopes and supports scope categorization, risk ranking, planning, and execution activities. This role also provides field-oriented technical support for fixed equipment work, troubleshooting, and turnaround execution.
What You'll Do - Facilitate the design and implementation of mechanical solutions for fixed equipment, such as pressure vessels, piping, heat exchangers, and tanks.
- Analyze complex engineering challenges, develop and refine equipment specifications, and support installation, operation, and maintenance activities to ensure reliability and compliance.
- Serve as a technical resource in scope development, planning, execution, and field support for maintenance and turnaround work.
- Coordinate the piping design process for applicable scope.
- Develop and review repair plans, engineering drawings, specifications, and test procedures.
- Support collecting, categorizing, and driving accurate risk ranking of event scope.
- Analyze work requests and equipment history to support technical recommendations, repair strategies, and scope development.
- Assist the planning team with conceptual estimates and recommend methodology, equipment, and material requirements.
- Support production and assembly of work packages and definition of scope-specific hold points as required by plant specifications.
- Troubleshoot equipment issues and provide practical field support during equipment downtime, plant outages, and turnaround execution.
- Support management of change requirements and applicable mechanical integrity expectations.
- Coordinate with maintenance, operations, inspection, reliability, procurement, project controls, and other engineering disciplines to safely and efficiently execute work.
- Support shop fabrication, field repairs, and construction activities, including awareness of cranes, scaffolds, NDE, welding, and work sequencing.
- Facilitate the adoption of new technologies and best practices and maintain working knowledge of relevant codes and standards.
- Foster a culture of safety, continuous improvement, and technical excellence to support refinery reliability and turnaround performance.
What You'll Bring - Required - Legally authorized to work in the job posting country
- Bachelor's Degree or higher in an Engineering discipline
- 2 or more years of engineering experience in maintenance and turnarounds within a refining environment
- Willing and able to obtain a Transportation Worker Identification Card (TWIC)
- 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
- 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
- Work outside in harsh weather conditions
- Wear fire retardant clothing and personal protective equipment
- Maintain face daily for proper respirator/face mask seal, including being free of facial hair when required
What Makes You Stand Out - Preferred - 4 or more years of experience working as a Maintenance, Turnaround, Reliability, or Discipline Engineer in refining or petrochemical operations
- Direct experience with equipment downtime or plant outage technical support
- Experience supporting turnaround planning and field execution
- Familiarity with stress analysis and applicable industry standards, including:
- API 579
- API 571
- ASME B31.3
- ASME Section VIII
- ASME PCC-1
- ASME PCC-2
- Experience with Management of Change (MOC) processes and related actions
- Experience evaluating equipment maintenance and operating history to support technical recommendations
- Experience with construction techniques and sequences, including cranes, scaffolds, NDE, welding, equipment, and tools
- Experience coordinating engineering, design, fabrication, or repair support across multiple groups
- Strong communication, organizational, and time management skills
- Ability to work effectively with crafts, contractors, planners, and cross-functional teams during active execution
Compensation Range This position has a base salary range of $141,300 - $172,700.
The
Ferndale Refinery is located on Puget Sound in Ferndale, Washington, approximately 20 miles south of the U.S.-Canada border. Facilities include crude distillation, naphtha reforming, fluid catalytic cracking, alkylation and hydrodesulfurization units. It processes a variety crude oils, including Alaskan North Slope, Canadian and other foreign and U.S. shale crudes, primarily delivered via marine vessel and pipeline. Within the refinery is a rail car crude oil receiving facility with a capacity of 30,000 BPD. This offloading facility, owned by Phillips 66 Partners, makes the receipt of additional crude by rail car possible. The refinery produces a high percentage of transportation fuels. Other products include residual fuel oil, which is supplied to the northwest marine bunker fuel market. Most refined products are distributed to customers by pipeline and barge to major markets in the northwestern United States.
BenefitsAt Phillips 66, we are proud to offer attractive and high-quality benefits which we refer to as Total Rewards. Additional information on
Total Rewards .
To be consideredIn 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
09/14/2026.
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.
This position will be subject to a post-offer background check, which could include criminal history screening, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. We are committed to fair hiring practices and comply with all relevant regulations, including 'Ban the Box' and Fair Chance laws. All qualified applicants will be considered regardless of criminal history, and any background check will be conducted only after a conditional offer of employment has been made.
- An employer may not ask for or receive information about an applicant's criminal history until after making an initial determination that (a) the applicant is otherwise qualified for the position and (b) making a conditional offer of employment;
- An employer may not implement policies or practices that automatically or categorically exclude job applicants with a criminal record, including rejecting applicants for failure to disclose a criminal record prior to receiving a conditional offer of employment;
- An employer may not carry out a tangible adverse employment action based on an applicant's or employee's adult arrest record or juvenile conviction record, provided the individual is not out on bail or released on their own personal recognizance pending trial; and
- An employer may not carry out a tangible adverse employment action solely based on an applicant's or employee's adult conviction record, unless the employer has a legitimate business reason for taking such action.
Learn more about the Washington Fair Chance Act.
