The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is looking for a new manager for its Los Alamos National Laboratory field office in New Mexico, according to a want ad on an official federal jobs board.
There are seven NNSA field offices, where local officials who report directly to the NNSA administrator oversee the agency’s multibillion-dollar site-management contracts.
Those interested in managing the Los Alamos Field Office have until Sept. 30 to apply for the job, according to the post on USAJobs.gov. The next Los Alamos Field Office manager will serve for at least three years, the post says.
The NNSA Los Alamos Field Office has about 90 employees and had a budget of about $17.6 million in 2018. The office administers Triad National Security’s lab management and operations contract, which including options is worth about $20 billion over the 10 years ending 2027.
Steve Goodrum has managed the NNSA Los Alamos Field Office since 2017. He will remain on the job until his Sept. 30 retirement, an NNSA spokesperson said Thursday. Goodrum previously served in roles including NNSA assistant deputy administrator for stockpile management and deputy manager for the agency’s Sandia National Laboratories field office in Albuquerque, N.M.
Goodrum replaced Kim Davis Lebak, who left the agency in 2017 after a nearly 30-year Department of Energy career. Lebak managed the Los Alamos Field Office for about four years, capping her federal career.
In 2018, Lebak joined Huntington Ingalls Industries: a subcontractor for Triad National Security and a partner in N3B Los Alamos, which handles the lab’s Cold War nuclear-waste cleanup under a separate contract with DOE’s Office of Environmental Management.
