Mike Nartker
WC Monitor
11/14/2014
Babcock & Wilcox has tapped Dave Richardson to serve as the next President and Project Manager of Idaho Treatment Group, LLC, responsible for the Idaho Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project. B&W spokeswoman Aimee Mills confirmed late this week that Richardson will head up ITG in an acting capacity, but did not say when a new full-time president will be announced. According to officials, though, Richardson has been selected to hold the position of ITG President in a permanent capacity pending approval from the Department of Energy.
Richardson is set to replace Danny Nichols, who is leaving ITG and B&W to take a management position with EnergySolutions’ commercially focused Licensing, Processing and Disposal business line. EnergySolutions did not respond to a request for comment late this week. Notably, both B&W and EnergySolutions make up ITG, along with URS. The timing of the management change at ITG remains unclear, though Nichols’ two-year commitment to serve as President is set to come to an end Nov. 19.
Richardson currently serves on ITG’s Board of Directors, and previously served as President and General Manager of B&W Y-12, LLC. He also has served as President of B&W Shaw Remediation, and in senior positions at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, according to B&W’s website. Richardson had been among ITG’s initial set of planned key personnel when it won the new contract to manage the AMWTP in the spring of 2011. However, he was unable to transfer to the planned position of Plant Manager, and before ITG completed transition in the fall of 2011, he was replaced by Doug Greenwell. Richardson will be ITG’s fourth president and project manager since it was awarded the AMWTP managing contract. ITG’s contract is currently set to expire in September 2015.
