Employee Profile
Julia Redington
Project Manager

Julia Redington grew up dog mushing in Alaska. She is an alumni of the University of Alaska Fairbanks with a degree in civil engineering. Today she works as a Project Manager in the Anchorage office.

Tell us more about growing up dog mushing in Alaska.

In my last Junior Iditarod I met my future husband Ray. We said hello during the race when he passed me, but I ended up beating his team. We haven’t raced since – I like the way the record stands. He’s a great racer, and is the grandson of Joe Redington, Sr., the Father of the Iditarod. I would like to run the Iditarod once just for the accomplishment of taking a team of dogs over some of the most rugged and beautiful terrain in Alaska. However, with our second child due in December, my Iditarod plans will wait.

What’s a typical day like for a project manager?

Every day is about communicating, and my activities involve planning, organizing, and managing projects. My typical day starts with reviewing the safety and environmental daily summary report of incidents along TAPS. Some days I am out in the field with the implementation crews, other days are spent working through issues on projects, reviewing costs, schedule progressing, completing lessons learned, working on project close out, and the list goes on.

Out of the projects you have worked on, what has been your favorite so far and why?

This is a tough question, but I would say managing the project that reset the Pipeline’s Denali Fault crossing. A 7.9M earthquake occurred on November 3, 2002. The pipeline experienced close to 18 feet of lateral movement and 3 feet of vertical movement. The adjacent trees in the area were split from the roots to the trunks, but the 48-inch pipeline remained undamaged. There were a number of support devices that required repair and this project reconfigured the pipeline supports to accommodate another up to 20 feet of lateral movement and 5 feet of vertical movement. The technical team that worked on this project consisted of many from the team that defined this fault crossing in 1974, the implementation crew was exceptional, and we finished it safely and under budget.