Avoid working P66 unless position is at Houston HQ. - Mechanical Engineer Phillips 66 Employee Review

Being an engineer at a P66 refinery will be a very stressful and toxic job. This is because they rely on engineers/salary employees for everything and are the only ones held accountable when things go wrong. The expectations are the highest. They lure you in with a decent starting salary, but keep you at the top of your pay grade. This means at the end of every year your raise gets smaller and smaller. I was hired in at 2-3 salary grades below my actual years of experience and capability. The expected overtime hours required to keep the refinery running make your salary not worth your time. In the end you make less money because you spend the majority of your life at work. Refineries have toilets that do not flush yet the Coporate HQ has all the luxuries and amenities you could think of. The Refinery Leadership Team (top managers of the refinery) typically have short term mentalities. They don’t really care about the site or native people in the long run. They’re looking to cut some costs somewhere to look like a hero so they can move to their next promotion or refinery. Meanwhile, the native employees have to live with these poor decisions for the rest of their career. Phillips 66 loves spending millions of dollars on stupid trinket technology or software. However, they won’t spend any money to hire more people to make sure their millions of dollars of investment actually can be used or make an impact. The refineries are also very petty about watching your time in the gate despite the fact that most employees work 10-20 hours OT weekly. The refineries will do anything to keep from going over their maintenance budget, even if it means spending double their budget. Yes, they’d rather rework a job numerous times than spend the money to do it right the first time. Human Resources thinks and treats employees like there is a line of willing and qualified people lined up to replace you. However, their job postings and turnover rate show otherwise. They love talking about diversity and inclusion but they do not practice what they preach.