Jeff Griffin, the associate principal deputy assistant secretary for field operations at the Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management, is leaving to take a post with the Canadian Nuclear Laboratories in Chalk River, Ontario.
Griffin’s departure, effective March 11, was announced in an email sent to staff members Tuesday from Environmental Management Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Todd Shrader. The email did not say what Griffin’s role will be at the Canadian research facility.
Griffin has overseen EM’s 16 field sites since November 2018, brought in under then-DOE Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management Anne Marie White. Prior to joining the nuclear cleanup office, Griffin spent about a decade as associate director for environmental management at the Savannah River National Laboratory in South Carolina.
The agency plans to compete the EM-3 job over the next few months, while Candice Robertson temporarily acts as the head of field operations, according to the Shrader email obtained by Weapons Complex Morning Briefing.
Earlier this month, the office said Robertson was rejoining the office in the newly created job of senior site liaison coordinator for field operations. She will manage both jobs in the interim, according to Shrader. Robertson worked as chief human capital officer for DOE for about two years and prior to that served in a couple different management jobs at the nuclear cleanup branch.
