A major Department of Energy contractor recently added a new member to its board of directors, while a much-used smaller contractor in the weapons complex announced the retirement of one of its managers.
Idaho-based North Wind Group said Jan. 30 that Linda Beach, the company’s project manager office director, has retired.
Beach has been affiliated with North Wind projects for 20 years, including DOE’s Transuranic Waste Processing Center at the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee, North wind said in a Jan. 30 press release. North Wind much cleanup work for DOE, including an ongoing $613 million contract for Remediation of the Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Project in Utah.
Meanwhile, Irving, Texas-based Fluor has added Charles (Chip) Blankenship Jr., to the government contractor’s board of directors effective March 1. Blankenship is chair and CEO of Woodward, an energy control solutions company, Fluor said in a Feb. 6 press release.
Fluor is a publicly-traded international engineering, procurement and construction company. It participates in several joint ventures worth billions of dollars in the weapons complex. This includes being the senior partner the management and operations team at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina.
