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The ICC Board Operator is a remote process-operations professional responsible for monitoring and operating assigned natural gas processing facilities from Phillips 66's centralized Integrated Collaboration Center (ICC).
Working with local operations, ICC Leads, engineering, optimization, scheduling, and field personnel, the Board Operator executes approved operating plans, recognizes and responds to abnormal conditions, and helps maintain safe, reliable, compliant, and economically sound performance across assigned assets.
Across the ICC, the role may support multiple plants, process systems, and operating scopes in a 24-hour control-center environment. Board Operators use control systems, alarm-management tools, historian and trend data, reporting systems, and optimization information to make timely decisions, communicate clearly, document actions, and coordinate effectively with field teams.
This position requires the successful completion of an online assessment. If you meet the required qualifications of the position, a link to complete the assessment will be emailed to you immediately after your completed application is received. Please check your spam folder if you do not see the email.
The assessment must be completed within 7 days of your application date OR prior to the job posting expiration date, whichever is earlier. The job posting expiration date is listed at the bottom of this job posting. Your assessment results will be valid for one year.
What You’ll Do
- Operate assigned plant consoles, facilities, and process systems within approved operating limits, procedures, and guidelines.
- Monitor process conditions, flows, pressures, temperatures, levels, product specifications, equipment performance, recoveries, alarms, trends, and data quality; identify deviations and take or coordinate timely corrective action.
- Monitor and operate assigned natural gas processing facilities—including cryogenic plants—and associated process units and systems, as applicable to the assigned assets. These may include inlet separation and compression, molecular-sieve dehydration, amine or glycol treating, refrigeration and expansion systems, residue and NGL recovery, condensate stabilization, NGL storage and transfer, flare and fuel systems, utilities, measurement systems, emergency shutdown systems, and related rotating equipment.
- Use distributed control, HMI, SCADA, historian, alarm-management, reporting, and optimization systems to monitor operating conditions, trends, equipment performance, data quality, and process response. Systems may include DeltaV, Foxboro, Wonderware/AVEVA InTouch, PI Vision, PI Historian, PI AF, PLC-based systems, measurement and flow systems, and comparable platforms.
- Maintain clear, timely, and professional communication with local operations, ICC Leads, plant technicians, engineers, pipeline controllers, system optimizers, scheduling, and field personnel. Coordinate operating activities, gas routing, throughput nominations, pigging activities, equipment performance, and field utilization as applicable to assigned assets.
- Execute the daily operating plan, compare actual performance with targets, identify causes of deviations, and coordinate corrective actions or escalation with relevant stakeholders.
- Recognize early signs of abnormal or emergency conditions and respond in accordance with approved procedures and training. Promptly notify the appropriate ICC Lead, supervisor, local operations, and other stakeholders, using clear, calm, and closed-loop communication.
- Maintain accurate operating logs, daily journal entries, event documentation, SAP notifications or work orders, shift-turnover information, and other required records.
- Review and follow applicable Management of Change requirements, revised procedures, temporary operating conditions, and new system or equipment instructions before operating within the changed scope.
- Follow applicable process safety management, operating-discipline, safe-work, emergency-response, and site safety program requirements; stop, communicate, and escalate when conditions are unsafe or outside approved limits.
- Complete required ICC training, console qualification, simulations, performance evaluations, refresher training, supplemental training, and lessons-learned activities.
- Complete assigned board rounds and documented daily checks using approved systems; record findings, communicate or escalate abnormalities, and initiate required follow-up actions.
- Participate in required site-based training, field visits, project activities, and other qualification activities.
What You’ll Bring – Required
- Legally authorized to work in the job posting country.
- High school diploma or GED equivalent.
- At least three years of relevant industrial operations experience in natural gas processing, refining, petrochemicals, power generation, pipelines, or another continuous-process environment.
- Control-room, console, remote-operations, or equivalent process-operations experience is applicable.
- Ability to use computerized control, reporting, communication, and documentation systems.
- Ability to learn and qualify on assigned consoles, systems, procedures, and assets through the ICC training and qualification program.
- Demonstrated ability to follow process safety management, operating-discipline, alarm-response, emergency-response, and safe-work requirements.
- Legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship.
- Able and willing to live within or relocate to within 50 miles of the reporting location.
- Able to work a 12-hour rotating schedule that includes days, nights, weekends, and holidays, following a 7-days-on/7-days-off rotation.
- Able to perform the physical requirements of the role, with or without reasonable accommodation, including lifting and transporting up to 20 pounds; pushing and pulling up to 10 pounds; walking, standing, stooping, sitting, climbing, and carrying materials; responding to emergency calls; and wearing required personal protective equipment.
What Makes You Stand Out – Preferred
- Experience in a control-room, console, remote-operations, or continuous-process environment.
- Experience working within process safety management and site safety programs, including Management of Change, operating procedures, incident or near-miss reporting, emergency response, safe-work practices, and required PPE.
- Experience operating or monitoring natural gas processing, cryogenic processing, refrigeration, expansion, molecular-sieve dehydration, treating, compression, condensate stabilization, NGL handling, or similar gas-processing systems.
- Experience with DeltaV, Foxboro, Wonderware/AVEVA InTouch, or comparable DCS, HMI, or SCADA platforms.
- Experience with PI Vision, PI Historian, PI AF, or comparable historian, trending, or operational analytics tools.
- Experience reading and interpreting P&IDs, PFDs, operating procedures, alarm information, and cause-and-effect documentation.
- Experience using SAP, Power BI, or comparable work-management, reporting, or digital documentation tools.
- Demonstrated ability to monitor multiple systems, alarms, trends, communications, and priorities while maintaining situational awareness.
- Comparable experience with other industrial control, SCADA, historian, or process-operations systems will be considered. Vendor-specific experience is preferred but not required.
Compensation Range
This position has a base salary range of $104,000 – $156,000.
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.
Midstream
The Phillips 66 Midstream business is a safe, reliable, and trusted provider for the movement, storage, gathering, and processing of liquid or gas energy via pipelines or terminals. We are an industry leader in logistics and operate or manage more than 70,000 miles of pipelines that transport crude oil from oil fields to refineries and finished products from refineries to storage terminals. We operate 39 terminals that supply finished products to consumer gas stations, as well as crude oil and NGL storage terminals and NGL fractionation facilities. Our capabilities include extensive natural gas gathering and processing operations, enhancing our wellhead-to-market strategy. We also provide the connectivity between the various Phillips 66 business units.
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 11/30/2026.
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
