Energy Department Office of Environmental Management leaders on Thursday said three longtime supervisors are getting new roles.
Dae Chung will become the new associate principal deputy assistant secretary for corporate services; Connie Flohr will head DOE’s Idaho Cleanup Project; and Candice Roberson will be the new senior site liaison coordinator within Environmental Management’s (EM) Field Operations division.
That is according to an email obtained by Weapons Complex Monitor to staff from Senior Adviser William (Ike) White White and Todd Shrader, principal deputy assistant secretary for the Office of Environmental Management.
Both Chung and Flohr start their new jobs on Feb. 17, shifting from other posts within EM. Robertson, currently DOE’s chief human capital officer, returns to the Office of Environmental Management on March 1, according to the message.
Chung, who has logged about a quarter-century in DOE management roles, is currently deputy assistant secretary for safety, security, and quality assurance within Environmental Management. He returned to federal services in 2017 after spending several years in the private sector, including at Samsung.
“We want to thank Norbert Doyle,” who has been acting in the post Chung will now fill, White and Shrader said in the email. Doyle will continue to serve as EM head of contracting and deputy assistant secretary for acquisition and project management.
Flohr has been deputy manager of DOE’s Idaho National Laboratory cleanup project since April 2017. She became acting manager in November 2019, when Jack Zimmerman left to become director of the Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center in Cincinnati.
Prior to moving to Idaho, Flohr held management jobs at DOE headquarters in Washington, D.C., including serving as EM’s budget director for nearly a decade. The Idaho cleanup involves ensuring protection of the Snake River Aquifer and overseeing repackaging and shipment of legacy transuranic waste out of the state.
Robertson is evidently taking a newly created job within the Office of Environmental Management that might allow her to telecommute, a source said Friday. She has been chief human capital officer for DOE for about two years.
Previously, she worked in several key roles at the Environmental Management office, including stints as chief of staff for two deputy assistant secretaries, and serving as director of external affairs. Robertson has 15 years of management experience in the public and private sectors.
