Gearing up to defend its turf as top dog of the Energy Department’s legacy liquid-waste cleanup operations, Los Angeles-based AECOM is moving an executive with experience in nuclear waste management into a senior position at its company’s Nuclear and Environment Strategic Business Unit, according to an internal memo dated Aug. 22.
Effective Oct. 1, Terri Marts will become senior vice president of special projects for the Nuclear and Environment unit, according to the memo, a copy of which was provided to Weapons Complex Morning Briefing.
Marts’ “focus will be the growth and development of the Northeast Region in the energy, environment, defense and technology markets,” including operation of the National Energy Technology Laboratory, Todd Wright, the former Savannah River National Laboratory manager who in June took the reins at AECOM’s N&E business as general manager and executive vice president, wrote in the memo.
For most of the last two years, Marts was an AECOM senior vice president, in which capacity, according to her LinkedIn profile, she worked at the Energy Department’s Hanford Site near Richland, Wash., “managing the integration of AECOM activities in the Washington region and leading the activities in support of the planning and completion of the high level waste mission.”
Since March, Marts has run AECOM’s consulting subsidiary Professional Solutions. She kept that chair warm for William Condon, who on Oct. 1 will replace Marts as vice president of AECOM’s technical services sector and president of Professional Solutions, according to the Aug. 22 memo. Condon is a longtime liquid-waste-cleanup hand whose most recent responsibilities as manager for the One System and Chief Technology Office included managing coordination of AECOM’s high-level waste business at Hanford.
Marts’ pending appointment was announced internally as prospective bidders for a follow-on to the AECOM-led liquid-waste services at DOE’s Savannah River Site are putting the finishing touches on proposals for an estimated 10-year, $4 billion-to-$6 billion contract that includes permanent disposal of millions of tons of salt waste at the Aiken, S.C., site.
