Bruce Covert, a longtime executive with Amentum and its predecessors, who held many senior jobs across the Department of Energy’s weapons complex, retired June 30, the company confirmed Tuesday.
Covert in May announced he would retire as deputy general manager at Amentum-led Waste Treatment Completion Co. He will be succeeded by another longtime senior manager Kim Jackson, according to an internal memo by Jim Blankenhorn. Blankenhorn heads Amentum’s environment and security business line.
Jackson’s most recent job was acting chief operating officer for Amentum-led Washington River Protection Solutions, according to the memo, which was shared with Exchange Monitor.
Waste Treatment Completion is a subcontractor to Bechtel National on the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant project at the Hanford Site in Washington state. AECOM’s government contracting branch, a predecessor to Amentum, appointed Covert to the deputy general manager post in December 2019.
Among other jobs, Covert was president of Amentum-led Nuclear Waste Partnership, the former operations contractor for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico. Covert helped lead WIPP recovery efforts after a February 2014 underground fire and radiation leak that suspended disposal of transuranic waste for about three years.
Covert also held senior jobs at the West Valley Demonstration Project in New York and the Dounreay site in the United Kingdom.
