Refinery Process Engineer Jobs in Wood River, IL

Phillips 66 & You - Together we can fuel the future

As an Engineer, Process Control at Phillips 66, you will help configure, optimize, and maintain the control systems that keep our operations safe, reliable, and efficient. You will apply your engineering skills to improve how we monitor and control complex refining processes, partnering with operations, maintenance, and project teams to deliver measurable performance. In this role, you will build hands-on experience with advanced process control and digital tools while contributing directly to the success of our refinery.

What You'll Do

• Configure, maintain, and optimize refinery process control systems, including distributed control systems (DCS), programmable logic controllers (PLCs), and operator graphics, to meet safety, reliability, production, and optimization objectives.
• Provide process control engineering support in assigned production areas to troubleshoot, analyze, and help safely resolve control and instrumentation issues during normal operations, startups, shutdowns, and upsets.
• Support the design, testing, implementation, maintenance, and upgrade of process control hardware and software, including system changes for modernization, automation, and capital or turnaround projects.
• Analyze process and control data to identify reliability, performance, and operability issues, recommend improvements, and implement straightforward changes to equipment, control logic, and work processes.
• Monitor alarm system performance, support alarm management and rationalization activities, and help address nuisance, bad-actor, and standing alarms so operators can respond effectively to changing conditions.
• Develop, maintain, and update documentation for control strategies, alarms, calculations, interfaces, standards, and procedures, including control narratives and related records in systems such as SAP.
• Participate in process safety and Management of Change (MOC) activities, including process hazard analyses (PHAs), incident investigations, audits, and inspections, providing control system input and implementing assigned actions.
• Use engineering tools, models, and analytics to test, validate, and report on control system performance against defined metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs), and share findings with cross-functional teams.

What You'll Bring - Required

• Legally authorized to work in the job posting country
• Bachelor's degree
• 1 or more years of relevant working experience as a process, automation, or controls engineer or a similar engineering role in the refining, manufacturing, petrochemical, oil and gas or related industry
• 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% of the time
  • Work extended hours, which may include evenings, weekends, and holidays
  • Occasional on-call duties
  • Work safely near large, hot, high-speed machines
  • Climb ladders and stairs up to 200 feet in height
  • Enter confined spaces during turnarounds and equipment outages
  • Transport articles up to 50 pounds
  • Work around chemicals, including acids and bases
  • Work around hydrocarbons under high pressure and heat
  • Work outside in harsh weather conditions
  • Wear fire-retardant clothing and personal protective equipment (such as steel-toe shoes, and ear and eye protection)
• Willing and able to obtain a Transportation Worker Identification Card (TWIC)

What Makes You Stand Out - Preferred

• 3 or more years of combined experience in process engineering/design, process control, automation, and/or related controls engineering work in refining, petrochemical, manufacturing, or a related industry
• Experience as a process or controls engineer supporting the use, design, installation, configuration, and commissioning of control systems in a refinery or chemical manufacturing environment
• Experience with one or more refinery processes such as crude/vacuum distillation, reforming, hydrotreating, alkylation, fluid catalytic cracking, hydrocracking, or sulfur recovery
• Knowledge and experience with process control techniques, including regulatory control, loop tuning, control logic development, alarm management, and advanced process control design
• Experience with the Honeywell Experion distributed control system (DCS), SCADA interfaces to third-party PLCs and other devices, and Honeywell alarm management tools such as Dynamo
• Experience leading or contributing to small and medium process control projects from design through startup, coordinating with cross-functional teams and vendors
• Proficient with Microsoft Outlook, Word, and Excel, with a strong commitment to safe work practices and the ability to work effectively with minimal supervision
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate across disciplines, mentor less experienced engineers, and drive continuous improvement using data and metrics

Compensation Range 

This position has a base salary range of $114,300 - $139,700.

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 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 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 09/03/2026.

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.