Sr Controller, Pipeline
Phillips 66
Houston, TX · Posted November 12, 2026
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About the job
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What to Expect
As the Pipeline Controller you will operate midstream natural gas gathering systems from Phillips 66's centralized control environment. This role monitors gas flows, pressures, alarms, and system conditions; coordinates with field operations and business partners; and makes timely decisions that support safe, reliable, and compliant movement of natural gas across the gathering network.
What You'll Do
Monitor natural gas flows, pressures, alarms, and related operating data through SCADA and centralized control systems to maintain safe and reliable gathering-system performance.
Operate and maintain qualification on multiple natural gas gathering consoles and associated control systems; apply approved console procedures, system parameters, and operating guidance.
Plan and coordinate gathering-system operations, including shutdowns, start-ups, gas-volume and pressure balancing, and other operating activities that support market demand and contractual commitments.
Make timely operating decisions during changing conditions, including gas rerouting, weather impacts, customer curtailments, and estimated gathering-system requirements for the next 24 hours.
Develop and communicate daily and monthly gas-flow operating targets with stakeholders; compare actual performance with plan, document deviations and causes, and recommend corrective actions.
Prepare operating reports, gas-volume ledgers, and other required records while communicating field performance, nomination risks, and corrective-action recommendations to ICC/HCC, Commercial/Marketing, and local leadership.
Coordinate responses to abnormal operating and emergency events, using sound judgment to resolve complex problems and ensure recommendations align with business requirements and goals.
What You’ll Bring – Required
High school diploma or GED equivalent.
At least five years of relevant pipeline, terminal, control-room, field-operations, or comparable continuous-process experience.
Working knowledge of midstream natural gas gathering operations, pipeline operating standards, and the operational and business fundamentals of the industry.
Working knowledge of natural gas gathering equipment and operating processes, with the ability to explain system conditions and required actions clearly.
Valid driver’s license.
Legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future company sponsorship.
Ability to work a 12-hour rotating schedule that includes days, nights, weekends, and holidays, following a 7-days-on/7-days-off rotation.
Ability to travel occasionally for field trips, training, or visits to facilities and pipeline stations.
Ability to perform the physical requirements of the role, with or without reasonable accommodation, including periodically pushing or pulling doors and occasionally lifting or carrying objects up to 20 pounds.
What Makes You Stand Out – Preferred
Experience using SCADA, centralized control, alarm-management, measurement, or comparable operational-control systems.
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