The Department of Energy is taking applications until Feb. 12 for a new nuclear cleanup field office manager to replace Michael Mikolanis at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, according to a recent online notice.
Mikolanis is leaving by March to become the top DOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) executive at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, DOE’s Office of Environmental Management said in December. Around fiscal 2025, NNSA plans to take over as landlord at Savannah River, where Mikolanis has previously worked. The Environmental Management office runs the site today.
NNSA oversees Los Alamos National Laboratory’s and its nuclear weapons mission, while the Environmental Management field office there, a relatively new office, oversees legacy waste cleanup at the site.
The Los Alamos Environmental Management field office post has a salary range between $184,000 and $222,000, according to the job posting on USAJobs.gov.
The Environmental Management field boss at Los Alamos oversees remediation of legacy waste and contamination left over from decades of nuclear weapons development dating back to the Manhattan Project in the 1940s.
