Randall Hendrickson, acting head of regulatory and policy affairs for the Department of Energy’s nuclear cleanup office, is leaving the government to take a job in private industry, the agency said this week.
Hendrickson’s departure was announced in an email to DOE Office of Environmental Management staff by Jeff Avery, DOE’s principal deputy assistant secretary for cleanup. His last official will be at the DOE cleanup office will be April 23, according to an agency spokesperson.
When contacted by a DOE spokesperson reached Tuesday by the Exchange Monitor, Hendrickson declined to reveal his private industry destination.
A member of the senior executive service, Hendrickson held various DOE and National Nuclear Security Administration posts since retiring from the U.S. Navy in 2015 as a rear admiral, Avery said in the email, viewed by Exchange Monitor.
Hendrickson has been the acting boss of the Environmental Management regulatory and policy shop since January. He succeeded Jay Mullis in that role and Mullis returned to this prior post managing the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee.
Since joining DOE in 2018, Hendrickson has served as the deputy and also acting-chief financial officer at the agency. In early 2021 he joined Environmental Management as the deputy for corporate services, Avery said in the “dear colleagues” email.
Hendrickson was assigned by Environmental Management (EM) senior adviser William (Ike) White to help direct a team planning the handover of the DOE’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina to the National Nuclear Security Administration.
Hendrickson’s “knowledge of the DOE and EM program, as well as his extensive leadership experience in the Department of Defense and DOE contributed significantly to EM’s sustained clean up progress across the complex,” Avery said in announcing the departure.
Avery said news on a successor to Hendrickson in the regulatory job will be announced at a later date.
