Mike Nartker
WC Monitor
11/21/2014
Stacy Charboneau appears set to serve as the next Manager of the Department of Energy’s Richland Operations Office at Hanford, WC Monitor has learned. DOE is in the final stages of approving Charboneau for the position, and a formal announcement is expected in the next few weeks. The Richland Operations Office declined to comment late this week.
Charboneau currently serves as acting deputy manager of the Richland Operations Office, which oversees the cleanup of Hanford’s Central Plateau and River Corridor areas. She has held a number of managerial roles for DOE at Hanford, including having previously served as assistant manager for safety and environment at the Richland Operations Office, deputy manager of the Office of River Protection, assistant manager for the tank farms project at the Office of River Protection and deputy assistant manager for River Corridor cleanup at the Richland Operations Office, among other positions. Charboneau’s career at Hanford began in 1994, according to DOE, when she served as an engineer in the Waste Operations Division, and prior to coming to Hanford, she was at the U.S. Department of Defense’s Naval Undersea Warfare Center.
The position of Richland Operations Office manager has been vacant on a full-time basis since Matt McCormick retired from DOE in June. Since then, the office has been headed on an acting basis by Deputy Manager Doug Shoop. Shoop and Jonathan ‘J.D.’ Dowell, who currently serves as deputy manager for the Office of River Protection, had also been seen among the top candidates for the Richland Operations Office manager position.
