{"id":10052,"date":"2020-08-20T07:00:49","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestofswla.com\/?p=10052"},"modified":"2020-08-19T16:29:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T21:29:40","slug":"reaching-new-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestofswla.com\/2020\/08\/20\/reaching-new-heights\/","title":{"rendered":"Reaching New Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Phillips 66 LC General Manager Jolie Rhinehart Brings Energy\u00a0And A Passion For People To Her Job<\/strong><\/p>\n

~ By Karla Wall<\/em><\/p>\n

At the young age of 14, living in the small town of Elverson, Penn., Phillips 66 plant manager Jolie Rhinehart figured out what her career should be \u2014 with the help of the young man who would become her husband.<\/p>\n

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Jolie Rhinehart<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cGrowing up, I wanted to be an accountant, because I really liked math, and I thought my parents\u2019 accountant had a really nice house,\u201d she said. \u201cThankfully, when I was 14, I met my future husband, Jason, and he did some research and told me I should become a chemical engineer. I was, and still am, a very extroverted person, and he was concerned that accountants work alone a lot and I wouldn\u2019t be a good fit. He researched the best field to go into if you were good in math and science and enjoyed collaborating with other people. He recommended chemical engineering.\u201d<\/p>\n

And what career did her husband embark on? Oddly enough, she says, he went into the recruiting field. \u201cHe also discovered his talents early,\u201d Rhinehart laughs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Armed with Jason\u2019s advice, Rhinehart told her chemistry teacher she was interested in chemical engineering. \u201cHe sent me for a \u2018shadow day\u2019 with a chemical engineer,\u201d she says. \u201cIt seemed like a great job that I could progress in.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 1998, she graduated from the University of Delaware with a bachelor\u2019s in chemical engineering. Her grandmother attended school, which has one of the top chemical engineering programs in the Northeast.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Climbing The Ladder<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rhinehart has been with Phillips 66 for 21 years. She began as a process engineer in the Trainer, Penn., facility.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI provided monitoring of a part of the refinery to evaluate the operation of the units, ensure that they were operating at optimal conditions and were within environmental compliance. I identified and developed upgrade projects to improve the operation of the refinery,\u201d she says.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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She worked in \u201ca couple of different areas\u201d of the plant before moving into the unit that blended gas and diesel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis job involved creating the recipes for the different grades of gasoline and diesel and setting the shipment schedule for the pipelines to ensure all of the fuels were at the pumps when needed,\u201d she explains.<\/p>\n

She then moved on to a position in which she helped coordinate the types of crude oil the plants purchased, timed the deliveries and adjusted the operation of the unit based on the specific crude oil mix.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat was a really fun job, and I loved learning the business side of the operation \u2014 how we made money,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

From there, she moved into the operations departments, where she supervised the employees who operated the equipment in the facility. She was eventually made area manager, tasked with controlling over half the process units in the refinery. As an area manager, she also led her team through the shutdown of the refinery, and the relocation and laying off of employees.<\/p>\n

From Trainer, she relocated to Phillips 66\u2019s Ferndale, Wash., refinery as operations manager, leading the entire refinery operations team. After three years in that position, she was relocated to Phillips\u2019 Wilmington, Calif., refinery as operations manager. After some time there, she returned to Ferndale to serve as refinery manager.<\/p>\n

She was offered the position of general manager in the Lake Charles refinery, and has been in the role for about a month now.<\/p>\n

\u201c(The Lake Charles refinery) is the largest and most complex facility I\u2019ve been able to work in,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m really enjoying learning about our team, our facility and our region. I\u2019m really impressed with the wonderful safety culture and performance of this refinery, and I look forward to helping continue the focus on ensuring everyone returns home safely at the end of each shift here.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Moving from the Cascade Mountains of Washington to the coastal plains and marshes of SWLA had to have been an adjustment, and Rhinehart says that relocating has been one of the biggest difficulties she\u2019s faced in her career.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe moving is always tough,\u201d she says. \u201cMy husband and I have moved four times in the last eight years. But the move to SWLA gets us closer to family in Pennsylvania, so we are looking forward to seeing them more often.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Small But Mighty\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite the gains women have made in business and industry, when most people think of top management in refineries, they envision a man, and Rhinehart realized she\u2019s in a unique position. But she says she\u2019s found her team has had no problem with a woman in charge.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t encountered any real challenges,\u201d she says. \u201cAt Phillips 66, we encourage diversity of thought, and I bring that as a woman. I don\u2019t have the typical engineering mentality, so there are differences aside from being a woman. I\u2019m an extrovert by nature. I love working on a team, getting to know the people on that team and working to get the best out of each individual. I\u2019m able to use my differences to benefit the team and the company. Phillips 66 champions leadership qualities that include working for the greater good, creating an environment of trust, seeking different perspectives and achieving excellence. It\u2019s created a wonderful and trusting culture.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>One of the characteristics that make her so well suited for her job is her openness and honesty, she says.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI find when I start with a new team, they are initially surprised by how much I will share,\u201d she says. \u201cI share my motivation, why I take certain actions, and why I think it\u2019s the right thing to do. And I\u2019m very interested in getting to know as many individuals on my team as possible on a personal level so I can understand what their motivation is, what work they enjoy most and how I can help them be successful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rhinehart says that aside from the personality characteristics that make her different, her physical size has also been a major difference as a woman in her job.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring my time at the Trainer, Penn., refinery, I worked for a great guy named George. He was a big guy, had played college football and would tell me all the time I was lucky I was so small because if I were his size with my energy I would frighten people,\u201d she says. \u201cI never really got it, until he transferred, and I saw a picture of us next to each other. I must be less than a third of his size. I guess I\u2019m much bigger in my mind. I\u2019ve been told a number of times that I\u2019m \u2018small but mighty.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The Future Of Women In Industry<\/strong><\/p>\n

Women in such careers as Rhinehart\u2019s are on the increase, she says. And she expects that to continue.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u201cI think women have an amazing future in the petrochemical industry,\u201d she says. \u201cWomen can provide a diverse opinion and a caring attitude. I see many exceptional young professional women here at Phillips 66 with the talent and work ethic to progress to upper management. I am honored to mentor several awesome young ladies and all are progressing in their careers. I fully expect to see them in upper management sooner rather than later.\u201d<\/p>\n

The current emphasis on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education, and the encouragement of young girls to participate in the programs, will create even more opportunities for women in her field.<\/p>\n

\u201cI see a good participation rate from young girls in STEM, and I am even more encouraged by their participation in extracurricular activities like robotics,\u201d she says.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBoth of my nieces in Pennsylvania are actively involved in both STEM programs at school and robotics competition.\u201d<\/p>\n

Phillips 66 has encouraged STEM programs in the parish in several ways, Rhinehart says. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLake Charles funded a grant for the SWLA Economic Alliance that inventoried and assessed the five-parish STEM offerings in public education system. We\u2019ve also been involved with the parish school board on coding and robotics classes as well as McNeese\u2019s STEM Academy. I think it\u2019s great to introduce kids to what we do, how to get into our industry and the amazing life that our jobs provide.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Positive Impact On\u00a0<\/span>The Environment<\/strong><\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not only the future of women in her field that Rhinehart is passionate about. And the image of industry as no place for a woman isn\u2019t the only one she is eager to dispel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>During her time in the California refinery, she became, as she says, \u201cinvolved in the political issues that affect our industry.\u201d She\u2019s still passionate about informing others of industry\u2019s efforts to make its effect on the environment a positive one. And as an avid outdoorsperson who skies both snow and water, hikes, fishes and mountain bikes, among other pursuits, she has a first-hand knowledge of industry\u2019s impact on the environment and a major personal stake in keeping that impact a positive one.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople ask me sometimes how I can say I love the outdoors and still work in a refinery,\u201d she says. \u201cI tell them there is no one who has a more positive impact on the environment than Phillips 66 does. Each year, our company lowers emissions over the year before. The Lake Charles refinery is located in a beautiful part of the world, with shoreline and wetlands. Operating cleanly and safely to preserve our beautiful area for our employees and our neighbors is a responsibility I take very seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n

Helping The Next Generation Of Women<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rhinehart says she loves talking with young girls about careers in industry. She\u2019s talked to her nieces\u2019 Girl Scout troops and visited schools during her time in Washington as part of a Girls in Engineering, Math and Science program. And her advice to young girls who are thinking about a career in the petrochem field:<\/p>\n

\u201cDo it,\u201d she says. \u201cI have met some wonderful people and have an amazing career that has afforded me a life I could never have dreamed possible. Learning about and producing the energy that makes our lives possible in this country has and continues to be amazingly rewarding.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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