Good people locally, beyond that they are clueless
The company is re-organizing so we'll see how things go but for the last several years it's been evident that your' work group (area) is either in good graces with upper management or they despise you. We, for some reason, fell into the latter category. To get any type of support for our area requires kicking and screaming. As a technician we get little to zero support technical-wise from any type of department. Everything is really left to you on the ground to research, remediate, repair, and re-order. Things eventually get missed and then it falls on you (on your supervisor first though) and the slings and arrows begin to fly. They really REALLY do set people up to fail in this aspect.
I like all the people i work with on a daily basis and we help each other out in any way we can. We HAVE to really because anytime a plan gets created from Division offices, it'll be a mess. They have little idea whats going on and them come up with plans that dont work because we are never involved in the planning. It's "us Vs. Them" and has been for years. I don't see much changing. We put a lot of miles on our vehicles and they are not bad about letting us keep them maintained, and the trucks are decent. Tools are readily available and i've never been told no by my supervisor about buying what i need. They may want to pay for it in a certain way or suggest an alternative, but never no. Totally fine there. They need to perform a manpower study also, the equipment/ technician ratio is ve
ProsCompany truck (although they track it), Pay
ConsLots of cross country travel for training, general disdain for employees.
Phillips 66, Mont Belvieu, Texas, Lead Operator January 2012 – July 2019
• Responsible for the direction of approximate 150,000 BPD throughput of Ethane, Propane, Isobutane, Normal Butane and Gasoline
• Monitor Foxboro DCS and PLC system performance
• Monitor quality of products to ensure meeting specifications and takes appropriate actions as necessary.
• Highly knowledgeable in Ethane Butane and Gasoline treating systems
• Control of refrigeration system, makeup of system, Solar and Steam turbines
• Start, stop and operate engines/pumps, process controls, and related equipment
• Highly proficient in all utility systems, ex.-water intake, boiler feed water, boilers and cooling systems
• Lockouts, hazard alerts, hazard assessments
• Troubleshoot, perform maintenance and repair compressors, engines, auxiliary equipment, pumps, process controls, and related equipment.
• Gather and test samples in accordance with the Texas Rail Road commission
• Key member of writing, producing and implementing policy and procedures throughout the Midstream organization company wide.
• Ensure the cost effective and efficient performance of all gas processing units and associated equipment.
• Operation of compressors, gas processing plant, motors, cooling equipment, pumps, valves, pipelines and other related gas processing equipment.
• Monitor and control pressures, temperatures and flow rates to efficiency achieve desired operating results.
• Oversee the plant personn
Competitive Pay, Great Benefits, High Political and Toxic Culture
Choose your tolerances...
Phillips66 is a company of old traditions and work values. The expectation is that you will work long hours (in the office physically) and sacrifice most other things because you are paid well. Many do make the sacrifice so there is a "crab in a barrel" type toxic sub-culture in several groups because workers are competing to be seen as valuable in order to be "favored" for reviews and promotions.
If you are a heads down type worker you will be overloaded with work. Job training is heavily self guided and reliant on your ability to persuade others to help you. There are many silos and for the sake of self preservation, employees and teams protect and gaurd their knowledge. It benefits you to be comfortable playing politics to get what you need.
Diversity is an area that they really struggle in. There is ONE African/Black in top leadership in the entire company. They talk diversity and inclusion, but do not walk it.
COVID: The response during covid was probably the worst of any company in the industry. The CEO emphasized that Phillips is a work from work company.. The 2020 Reuters article captured it best (Google it).
So all in all...the company pays well and offers good benefits, but there are trade offs in many other areas. You have to decide what is most important to you. Especially if you are in the Houston Headquarters location.
The employees at P66 are great people to work with, I have nothing but good things to say about them.
However, the management does not recognize your worth and operates on a purely political basis. I am an I&E engineer with 28 years of experience, I know my stuff. Any drafting that I do is done with AutoCAD. P66 uses MicroStation, I informed them before they hired me that I had never used MicroStation before and was not experienced in it at all. They hired me anyway saying that they would train me on MicroStation. That training consisted of a 30 minute overview of the program and a guy that said if I had any questions I could ask him. However, when I did have questions, he was never in his office and he was always slow to answer e-mails and messages. P66 let me go after 3 weeks, saying that they needed someone who was very experienced in MicroStation! I asked them why they even hired me in the first place and they would not answer me. Later when I talked to some of the employees that I met there they told me that the upper management had someone else that they knew personally and wanted hired instead. Letting me go was strictly a political move on my manager's part to gain favor with upper management.
The long-term employees at P66 informed me that this behavior on management's part is habitual.
Phillips 66 is a good place to work. For a company with the resources and ability to hire the best it is not one of the best places to work in corporate America. You can expect world-class benefits and above average pay. There is opportunity for those that "show-up" to work, but opportunities are limited when you do not have a four year degree. There are the typical corporate issues with departments and BU's working in silo's. Communication and expectations are fuzzy. Some associates get by while others give their best. There is a process for employee goal setting and performance review, however an employee's rank for pay increase at year end is pre-determined prior to the year-end conversations and the year-end discussion is not very helpful for personal improvement nor does it reflect the work done during the year. You are not measured on your contributions, but you are measured against others in your pay grade. Promotions are given in title and there is no salary adjustment for assuming extra accountability and responsibility. When considering a transfer within the company you are told you would be more valuable if you were hired-in instead of transferring. i.e. If selected for the job you would be paid more money for the same work and same experience.
ProsBenefits, retirement, pension
ConsInconsistent management of personnel. High turnover.
From day one they tell you all the ways you can get fired. They hold your probation period over your head as leverage. There are some good trainers in the training department, But there are also some Terrible trainers that don't know how to train or have never been in your unit to actually give you any training at all. The culture is Salary VS Hourly and the Area Manager that I had is a Pompous a-hole that doesn't know how to treat people with respect and thinks he knows everything. The Stillman are very Knowledgeable and will help you because they are hourly and want you to succeed. The pay was good and the benefits were good. The reason I quit was because of poor management and always wondering if today was the day I was going to get fired. Human Resources is a joke and the upper management don't care at all about you. You are just a number to them. The trainer I had had NEVER been a stillman and had to look at a piece of paper to make sure she had the right answer, Poor excuse for a trainer. The manufacturing specialist likes to impress himself with his knowledge and tell you stuff that will confuse you for your walk thru. Its like they want you to fail. Bottom line is if your not in their click don't expect to last long. My advise is to work somewhere else because this place is TOXIC.
It's a real good paying job and when you have a good.crew working around you it makes the day easier. The more people get alone the job would be easy
A typical learning day I'll be just like any other normal day some days you are more required to do more than other but everyday is a new experience.
I learn that when it comes to work do not bring your outside personal life inside of the work business. We have to be a team and work together that's why we have co workers.
When the word management steps in concepts of business also takes parts of that such as your business information your marketing your management your leadership your interpreter ship your finances your marketing and managing and etcetera.
The hardest part of the job is when you're not having a good day and you really don't want to do anything and you take it out on other people and you have them do your job instead of you doing it and also when you dont know how you get upset. Because you have to be the one.do.it. the most fun part about the job is been successful making sure that everything is completed everyone's getting along in the business is very successful everything is coming along and everyone's happy.
ProsFree lunches, the team.come.together and have get it togther as a work family.
The company used to be great, we had a strong culture of growth and employees were valued. In the last 2 years that has all changed.
All management cares about now is boosting the stock price at whatever cost - including underpaying extremely talented employees and laying off people whenever they see fit.
The environment is very much cost cutting rather than growth, despite how well the trading team has performed this year.
We lost 10 analysts in the last 3 months to competitors in industry because of how underpaid our junior level jobs are. Anyone from an entry level analysts to traders are grossly underpaid and under appreciated.
They might be able to entice you to join with a strong salary now because they are desperate and have lost so much talent. But don't fall for their traps - your career growth is capped and your income won't rise at market levels.
I'd caution anyone from joining right now - there are only a handful of talented people left at the company and in the coming months I wouldn't be surprised if our only talented traders ended up leaving. Which would then leave the corporation with mediocre people.
ProsGym onsite, Good Cafeteria, Great People (for now)
ConsCareer progression is slow, Low pay, Untrustworthy management
Invests in their employees, but extremely political work environment
You'd be hard pressed to find another company that focuses so much on developing talent, career planning, and ensuring employees get the right experience, which is an extremely valuable and rare trait in an organization. Educate their commercial folks extremely well on the refining process which leads to a much deeper understanding of the market fundamentals.
Very political environment. In order to progress, you need to play the game and campaign for yourself (and utilize the resources mentioned in the previous paragraph). Environment can be toxic at times with folks throwing each other under the bus to get ahead. Need to find a mentor for career guidance but also for protection.
Has a large group of young employees which made the grind a lot easier to get through. A lot of friendships are formed and happy hours are had.
The pay is just not good. Leaves them susceptible to employees being poached after 3 to 5 years.
ProsBest industry education, the Big Dog in the market, new facilities, balanced employee base
ConsPay, careful political navigation required to succeed, strained work/life balance at best
I would show up count into my cashier register for the day other employee would count down from register then leave for the night, if not busy i would mop the floor, clean the counters, made sure all beverages worked, lined up drinks in fridge isles, sure there were hotdogs on roller grill, and then just work on the register until close then I would lock up the store after counting down my register.
The responsibility of locking up a store and maintaining it clean.
Management just was keeping the store presentable and being friendly to customers.
My coworkers were fine at their jobs some lazier than others, but after all its a gas station that didn't get extreme rushes, always nice to costumers and we were nice to each other even outside the work place.
As i said its a gas station that had its normal clientele, but never to speedy or rushed so it was actually mellow, except when we would occasionally have a rude customer and having to deal with it you know the feeling of refraining your frustration with the customer.
Prosfree beverages, food from roller grill just not too much food. and being able to listen to music on radio.
Consnone really aside from rude customers.
Questions And Answers about Phillips 66
What is the most stressful part about working at Phillips 66?
Asked Oct 6, 2016
The bootlicking and backstabbing ruins the whole company.
Answered Apr 21, 2019
Upper Level management not knowing what their employees do.
Answered Sep 1, 2018
If you were in charge, what would you do to make Phillips 66 a better place to work?
Asked Jan 19, 2017
In my position as a Supervisor in the Control Center there were a lot t of corporate policies that were geared towards a 8 hour, 40 hours a week, M-F employee. In many things, they tried to fit a 24 hour, 12 hour shift employee into that 40 hour a week box and it led to some challenges. Pay Policies, Sick and Vacation time off, Holiday Pay. So to answer this question I would say if I were in charge, there would be policies for BOTH types of employees. The nature of our business in the Control Center was very different from a person sitting at a desk doing data analysis or a person doing business development. These people could stop at 5:00pm and go home and pick up where they left off. In the Control Center, you can't stop a pipeline, go home and come back at 8:00am and start it back up. It's a 24 hour Operation, shift change is passed on to another Controller to continue the work, we didn't turn the lights off at 5:00pm. Because of the nature of our business, the employees need to be treated different. So a different set of Policies should be set for the "shift" worker and not tried to be fit into a 40 hour a week box.
Answered Mar 31, 2020
Staff it better
Answered Nov 22, 2019
What benefits does Phillips 66 offer?
Asked Jan 19, 2017
Vision
Dental
Health
401K
Life insurance
Paid time off
Stock options (limited availability)
Answered Nov 13, 2017
I did not receive Benefits
Answered Oct 28, 2017
What is the vacation policy like at Phillips 66? How many vacation days do you get per year?
Asked Nov 30, 2016
5 weeks. The policy itself is fine. However, some of the management staff will give you all kinds of trouble taking it.
Answered Jan 3, 2018
2 weeks of vacation to start wasn't bad
Answered Dec 12, 2017
How do you feel about going to work each day at Phillips 66?
Asked Jan 9, 2018
Leadership is a total joke. I can't emphasize this enough. They show all characteristics of weak leadership (scared to make decisions, take credit for subordinates work, buddy system of advancement, etc). Every person has a different deal there (some work from home whenever they choose). Play favorites based minority or LBGTQ status.The job can be interesting but the people in charge are toxic and create that type of environment. These are the type of people that you cannot respect as professionals or people. You would not help them from a ditch if they were in flames. If offered a job in Real Estate Services, stay where you are at as it can't be as bad as what you are walking into.
Answered Mar 20, 2020
I enjoy the people I work with. I dread what management will come up with next to get us in trouble.
