Department of Energy contractor Longenecker & Associates has promoted Mike Briggs to the newly created post of group vice president for High-Hazard Operations support.
Briggs joined the Las Vegas-based company last year and helped launch the business line that supports incident response and recovery at DOE sites, the company said in a Monday press release. Until now, Briggs’ title was director of the High-Hazard Operations group.
The business line does work for the Energy Department subcontracts held by L&A at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Sandia National Laboratories, both in New Mexico. The work includes training, Incident response and recovery, waste management, and disposition support.
“Mike has been a tremendous asset in providing this vital support across the Nuclear Security Enterprise,” said L&A CEO Bonnie Longenecker in the release.
According to his online biography, Briggs has more than 30 years of experience in health and safety-related work in the nuclear industry. From 2015 to 2018 he worked for BWX Technologies at Nuclear Waste Partnership, the Energy Department’s management contractor for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico. Briggs was the lead for industrial hygiene, radiation protection, and occupational medicine at WIPP, according to Longenecker.
Between 2012 and 2015 he served as a senior European business manager for BWXT predecessor Babcock & Wilcox, setting up the company’s office in the United Kingdom.
