Sr Specialist , Environmental, Ponca Refinery

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The Sr. Environmental Specialist I, Ponca City Refinery coordinates environmental activities and programs for Phillips 66 assets located at the Ponca City Refinery.

• Maintain and continuously develop comprehensive knowledge of applicable environmental regulations and permits.
• Lead regulatory advocacy and track new or proposed rules impacting the business.
• Obtain, amend, and renew construction and operating air permits.
• Provide regulatory and permitting guidance to Operations, Functional Support, and Project Managers.
• Assess regulatory and permit requirements with consideration of business risk and interpretive variability.
• Support projects by conducting environmental evaluations, permitting, and overall environmental activity management.
• Deliver cost‑effective environmental solutions to Operations, Asset Engineering, and Project Teams.
• Summarize new or revised permits and regulations for leadership, other stakeholders, and affected functions.
• Communicate updates to Environmental Policies, Procedures, Guidance, and Forms to Program and System Specialists.
• Define environmental training needs and develop or coordinate environmental training for the asset.
• Prepare required environmental reports and notifications in a timely manner.
• Support agency (federal, state, and local) environmental inspections.
• Participate in Health, Safety, and Environmental (HSE) audits (internal and external).
• Foster effective relationships with regulatory agencies, communities, and asset.
• Support emergency response efforts, including but not limited to spill calculations, agency/community reporting, air media management, and remediation guidance along with internal and external spill drills.
• Ensure asset Environmental Operating Limits (EOLs) are current, documented, monitored, proactively communicated (especially when a limit is being approached), and understood by the customer.
• Maintain compliance records for rolling through puts, emissions, and similar compliance requirements.
• Support Management of Change (MOC) program for all actions that have environmental impacts.
• Create and manage Environmental preventive maintenance (PM) activities in Systems, Applications, and Products (SAP) with accurate due dates and lead time.
• Accurately manage spills, environmental events, compliance issues, Notices of Violations (NOVs), and agency inspections in P66 systems.
• Maintain thorough environmental documentation, including compliance reports, permits, correspondence, notifications, and editable working files.

• Legally authorized to work in the United States
• High School Diploma or GED
• Valid Driver’s License
• Willing and able to travel up to 25% of the time
• 5 or more years of environmental compliance experience
• Working knowledge of EPA regulations including Title V, New Source Performance Standards (NSPS), Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT), and other local, regional, state and federal environmental requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering, Environmental Science, Chemistry, or other science discipline
• Experience with Environmental Management Systems (EMS)
• Trained in Emergency Response Incident Command System (ICS) and procedures

This position has a base salary range of $136,800 - $167,200.

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 Ponca City Refinery is located in Ponca City, Oklahoma, approximately 95 miles northwest of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Its facilities include crude distilling, naphtha reforming, fluid catalytic cracking, alkylation, hydrodesulfurization and delayed coking units. The refinery processes a mixture of light, medium and heavy crude oil…