Alyeska Pipeline Leadership

Rod Hanson
Director, Health, Safety, Environment and Quality

Rod Hanson is the Director of Health, Safety, Environment and Quality at Alyeska Pipeline Service Company. He is responsible several major management systems and programs including Occupational Health, Safety, and Environment, Quality Assurance, Risk Management, Crisis Management, Inspection Services, and Loss Prevention.

Rod is essentially a “risk manager” and assumed this new position on August 1, 2006.

Rod joined the company in 1991 and held various progressive positions in Engineering, Maintenance, and Project Management before joining Operations Line Management in 1995, dividing his time between the North Slope and traveling along the Pipeline.

He later became Pipeline Manager, based in Fairbanks, and subsequently to Valdez as the Marine Terminal Manager for five years before transferring to Anchorage in 2005. Prior to his current position he also served as Alyeska’s Commercial Manager.

Rod holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil / Structural Engineering from the Oregon Institute of Technology. He achieved Professional Engineer registration in Oregon, Washington, California and Alaska.