Phillips 66

Superintendent III, Operations, Sweeny Refinery

Phillips 66$141K — $172K *
Energy & Utilities
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Legally authorized to work in the job posting country.
  • High School Diploma or GED equivalent.
  • 6+ years of production or manufacturing experience.
  • Ability to troubleshoot equipment and process-related issues.
  • Possess a valid driver's license.

Responsibilities

  • Lead daily production activities, ensuring safe and efficient execution of manufacturing plans.
  • Oversee integration of production processes and equipment performance across departments.
  • Develop and adjust production schedules to align with labor, materials, and operational priorities.
  • Coordinate with planning and maintenance teams to troubleshoot production issues and minimize downtime.
  • Coach and support production employees, providing performance feedback and clear expectations.
  • Champion safety and compliance by enforcing safe work practices and identifying hazards.
  • Analyze operational data to recommend improvements for production flow or methods.

Benefits

  • Annual Variable Cash Incentive Program (VCIP) bonus.
  • 8% 401k company match.
  • Cash Balance Account pension.
  • Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits with a company contribution to a Health Savings Account.
  • Total well-being programs and incentives, including Employee Assistance Plan and family care services.
Full Job Description
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.

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.

About Phillips 66

Phillips 66 is a growing energy manufacturing and logistics company. They’re the only integrated downstream company to combine leading midstream, chemicals, refining, and marketing and specialties businesses. With this diverse portfolio, Phillips 66 is uniquely positioned to capture opportunities of the changing energy landscape. Their Midstream segment includes Phillips 66’s transportation business, including operations of Phillips 66 Partners LP, their master limited partnership which conducted an initial public offering in July 2013; a 50 percent interest in DCP Midstream, LLC; and natural gas liquids (NGL) operations. DCP Midstream is the largest NGL producer and one of the largest natural gas gatherers and processors in the United States, with 63,000 miles of pipeline, 62 plants and 12 NGL fractionators.

Phillips 66 Careers

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Size
14,000 employees
Market Cap
$47.8 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$3.9 billion
Founded
1917
5 Year Trend
+5.6%
Revenue
$63.4 billion
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