About two months after he left the federal ranks, the former top Department of Energy official at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., joined Atkins in a new role created for him.
Jack Craig, who in February retired as manager of DOE’s Savannah River Site office after three years in that role and over three decades with the department, is now vice president of strategic programs for Atkins Nuclear Secured. Atkins, an active player on DOE contracts at the Hanford Site in Washington state and the Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee, is owned by Montreal-based SNC-Lavalin.
In his new job, “Jack will assist in performance assurance of strategic contracts, governance of SNC-Lavalin’s Tier 1 portfolio for DOE and Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL), and be a major player in defining the company’s expansion strategy within the DOE marketplace,” the company said in a press release.
Michael Budney, a former U.S. Navy captain, replaced Craig as manager of the Savannah River Site.
Craig’s addition is the second Atkins announcement in less than a month involving a high-profile DOE veteran. In March, the company said it had hired Ralph Holland, who retired as EM procurement chief in December, as vice president for commercial development in Atkins Nuclear Secured.
Atkins Nuclear Secured is the name of SNC Lavalin’s federal nuclear business in the United States which is headquartered in Oak Ridge, Tenn. The unit works on government cleanup projects around the country.
