Brendan Bechtel, great-great grandson of the founder of San Francisco-based construction giant Bechtel, will replace Bill Dudley as the company’s chief executive officer effective Sept. 1, topping a list of senior-management changes on the way for one of the biggest contractors in the Department of Energy’s nuclear complex.
The company announced the changes, which will go into force just ahead of the start of the U.S. government’s 2017 fiscal year, in a press release last week.
Brendan Bechtel now will be the top executive, in charge of Bechtel’s 10 operating units.
Dudley, the first non-family chief executive in the company’s nearly 120-year history, will become vice chairman of the Bechtel Group, the company said. He had been CEO since 2014.
Brendan Bechtel is presently the company’s president and chief operating officer. Jack Futcher, president of the company’s Oil, Gas, and Chemicals segment, will succeed Brendan Bechtel in that role.
Meanwhile, Bechtel is also making changes at the highest levels of its Nuclear, Security, and Environmental business, which among other things handles DOE contracts for nuclear waste cleanup.
Effective Sept. 1, Craig Albert, president of the company’s the Nuclear, Security, and Environmental business, will move to London and become president of Bechtel’s infrastructure unit.
Barbara Rusinko, Albert’s executive vice president, will replace him as president, the company said Friday.
Bechtel, through its Bechtel National subsidiary, is the prime contractor on the multibillion-dollar Waste Treatment Plant at DOE’s Hanford Site, which is designed to turn 56 million gallons of chemical and radioactive waste into an easily storable glass form.
Bechtel is also one of the major partners on the Los Alamos National Security consortium, prime management and operations contractor for Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
