Sr Manager, Automation, Borger Refinery

Phillips 66 • Borger, TX

6d • $158,400 - $226,600

About The Position

The Sr Manager, Automation leads the team responsible for the Borger Refinery’s distributed control, advanced process control, and automation systems. The role combines technical leadership with team development, setting the site’s long-term automation and APC strategy and collaborating across operations, maintenance, and engineering to improve process safety, operability, reliability, and profitability.

The role is guided by Phillips 66’s Lead Forward leadership approach: setting direction, building trust, supporting team success, acting with integrity, making thoughtful and timely decisions, and taking ownership of outcomes in a complex and changing environment. The position leads control-system strategy and lifecycle, engineering standards and compliance, cybersecurity, and a portfolio of automation projects from concept through commissioning and startup. It also supports refinery safety and operational excellence, cross-functional collaboration, performance analysis, and longer-term roadmaps and budget planning.

The Borger Refinery is in Borger, Texas, approximately 50 miles north of Amarillo. Benefits described for certain eligible full-time employees include an annual variable cash incentive program, an 8% company 401(k) match, a cash balance pension account, medical, dental and vision benefits, a company contribution to a Health Savings Account for employees on an HDHP, and well-being programs and incentives.

Requirements

• Legally authorized to work in the job-posting country; candidates for regular U.S. positions must meet the listed U.S. citizenship or immigration-status requirements and must not require work-authorization sponsorship now or in the future.
• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline.
• At least 10 years of engineering experience in the energy, chemical, or a related industry.
• At least 6 years of experience managing teams and planning and organizing engineering resources.
• Valid driver’s license.
• Willing and able, with or without reasonable accommodation, to travel up to 5%.
• Willing and able to operate a company vehicle on site premises and/or public roads up to 10%.
• Willing and able to work extended hours, potentially including evenings, weekends, and holidays, and perform occasional 24/7 on-call duties.
• Willing and able to transport articles weighing up to 50 pounds and climb ladders and stairs up to 200 feet.
• Willing and able to work safely near large, hot, high-speed machines; around chemicals and hydrocarbons under high pressure and heat; and in harsh weather conditions.
• Willing and able to wear fire-retardant clothing and personal protective equipment and maintain a daily face condition suitable for a proper respirator or face-mask seal.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Chemical Engineering; an advanced degree is preferred.
• At least 12 years of engineering experience, including extensive leadership of controls or APC teams in manufacturing, refining, or chemical environments.
• Knowledge and understanding of distributed control systems, advanced process controls, networks, and operating systems.
• Direct experience in the refining and/or chemical industry, including automation and control applications in those settings.
• Knowledge of Emerson DeltaV and DeltaV Safety Instrumented Systems.
• Experience with Honeywell ProfitSuite and other APC or optimization platforms.
• Experience with Alteryx, Tableau, or similar data analytics, reporting, and visualization tools.
• Proven ability to lead complex automation projects, coach diverse technical teams, and make thoughtful, timely decisions in ambiguous or rapidly changing conditions.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high-performing controls team by setting goals, managing performance, building capabilities, and modeling safety, integrity, and accountability.
• Own the refinery’s control-system strategy and lifecycle, including DCS, PLC interfaces, APC, and stand-alone controls, to meet safety, regulatory, production, and optimization objectives.
• Design, standardize, and improve APC and process-control solutions, including APC applications, inferred properties, control strategies, and alarm management.
• Oversee control-system engineering standards, compliance, and cybersecurity, including networks, domains, software upgrades, hardware migrations, documentation, and alignment with corporate standards, process safety management, and security requirements.
• Lead automation and control projects from concept through commissioning and startup, managing scope, schedule, and budget in partnership with refinery teams, vendors, contractors, and corporate experts.
• Support the refinery safety program and provide guidance during startups, shutdowns, and upsets; participate in incident investigations and Management of Change reviews.
• Build cross-functional relationships across the refinery and enterprise, manage stakeholder expectations, and facilitate collaboration to resolve complex issues and implement change.
• Use data and strategic analysis to support decisions, report and optimize control-system performance metrics, and contribute to automation and APC roadmaps and budget planning.

Benefits

• Annual Variable Cash Incentive Program bonus.
• 8% 401(k) company match.
• Cash Balance Account pension.
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• Annual company contribution to a Health Savings Account for employees on an HDHP.
• Total well-being programs and incentives, including an Employee Assistance Plan, well-being reimbursement, and backup family care services.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior