Mark Bollinger is now the acting manager for the Department of Energy’s Carlsbad Field Office in New Mexico, which oversees the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.
The DOE Office of Environmental Management announced earlier in January that Carlsbad manager Reinhard Knerr is moving to the Portsmouth-Paducah Project Office to become the deputy manager helping to oversee the former gaseous diffusion plant sites in Ohio and Kentucky.
Knerr also starts his new post this week.
Bollinger, the No. 2 guy at Carlsbad for nearly two years, had previously been second-in-command at the DOE Fermi Site Office in Illinois, since 2007.
Before joining DOE, Bollinger did research at Proctor and Gamble and also was a regulator for the Indiana Department of Environmental Management, according to the bio posted on the Carlsbad field office website.
