Oak Ridge, Tenn., City Council last week held video interviews with a half-dozen candidates to be city manager for the municipality, population 31,000, which borders the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Site.
Zoom interviews with candidates to succeed City Manager Mark Watson, who retired on May 5, occurred July 17-18, according to a post on the city’s website.
Among other duties, the local government wants an administration that can “effectively represent the city’s interests in interactions with multiple DOE components and federal contractors,” according to the website. The candidates listed online after being winndowned down by the council include local government administrators from North Carolina, Texas, Wisconsin and Michigan.
“We feel really good about the candidates we have,” said Heidi Voorhees, president and co-owner of the executive search firm retained by the city, GovHR USA.
