Lynchburg, Va. -based BWX Technologies has promoted Richard Loving to a newly created post of senior vice president and chief administrative officer (CAO).
Loving has been senior vice president for human resources at BWXT since mid-2016.
He has about 40 years of management experience in manufacturing, energy, and government operations, according to a press release. That has been chiefly with BWXT and its predecessor companies – McDermott International and Babcock & Wilcox.
“Elevating his title to chief administrative officer acknowledges the full breadth of his responsibilities in human resources, communications, security, and environmental health & safety,” BWXT President and CEO Rex Geveden said in the press release.
Loving joined Babcock & Wilcox Co. security operations in 1979, and held several management positions during his career there before joining McDermott International in 2010. That is the year Babcock was spun off from McDermott. At McDermott, Loving was senior human resources positions in the Middle East and internationally.
BWXT is a minority partner in several DOE Office of Environmental Management contracts, including the cleanup contract for the Portsmouth Site in Ohio as well as the operation of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico.
Massachusetts-based UniTech Services Group has made Michael Bovino its new vice president, effective Jan. 1.
Bovino brings 35 years of management and contamination control experience to the post at the nuclear services company. The executive is a 29-year veteran of UniTech and its parent, UniFirst Corp., most recently serving as division general manager responsible for profit and loss at the UniClean branch, according to a December press release.
Joining UniTech in 1990, Bovino spent six years in health physics and engineering before moving into senior management. Prior to UniTech, Bovino worked for New Jersey-based Public Service Electric & Gas.
The Unitech manager has also been a voting member of the State University of New York (SUNY) Cortland Alumni Association Board since 2018.
Bovino replaces George Bakevich, who recently retired after 36 years as vice president, helping oversee company expansions in the United States, Canada, and Europe.
In the 1950s, UniTech became the first U.S. licensed provider of a radiological laundry service. Today it is one of the world’s largest suppliers of nuclear protective clothing and accessories. It also provides decontamination and testing of respirators and radiological equipment for both domestic and international nuclear markets. UniFirst is a supplier of industry textile services and work clothes.
