The Energy Department is advertising for a deputy manager at the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) in Tennessee.
The position has not been filled permanently since Jay Mullis became OREM manager last fall. Mullis had been OREM’s acting manager since October 2016 and deputy manager since February 2015.
The Energy Department posted an advertisement for the senior executive service position June 20. July 5 is the deadline to apply for the position, which lists a salary range between $165,000 and $189,000.
OREM is responsible for remediation work across the 32,400-acre Oak Ridge Reservation. In addition to serving as the “alter-ego” of the site manager, the deputy manager will make budget recommendations, participate in long-range planning, and promote stakeholder involvement at the site, the advertisement says.
“The scope of work includes managing a portfolio whose lifecycle costs are in excess of $15 billion with an annual budget of approximately $500 million,” DOE said in the job notice.
Meanwhile, the Site Specific Advisory Board (SSAB) for Oak Ridge is scheduled to meet Aug. 25 in Gatlinburg, Tenn., to discuss plans for fiscal 2019, which starts Oct., 1, and review developments from fiscal 2018.
Huntington Ingalls Industries said Tuesday it on June 4 formally made Sharon Brady the new chief operating officer for subsidiary Stoller Newport News Nuclear (SN3), a significant player in the Energy Department complex.
Brady has worked in a variety of corporate and government contract posts at SN3 predecessor Stoller since 2001, the company said in a press release. Huntington Ingalls Industries acquired S.M. Stoller Corp. in 2014. After the deal, S.M. Stoller was merged with its owner’s Newport News Nuclear subsidiary.
Most recently, Brady was director of business services at DOE’s Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) in South Carolina, responsible for a variety of areas including finance, procurement, management, and training. Stoller Newport News Nuclear partners with Fluor and Honeywell in Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, which manages the laboratory and other operations at the Savannah River Site under a $9.5 billion contract that expires at the end of July.
Brady is a former vice president of business operations and director of human resources for SN3, and she supported an average of 45 active contracts for government and commercial clients, according to an online SRNL biography. The new COO has 35 years of senior level experience in financial and business management, including electronic data systems, and cost controls.
A Stoller-led team, Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos (N3B), in late April took over a 10-year, $1.39 billion contract to manage legacy nuclear cleanup at DOE’s Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico.
The Energy Department has drilled two open-borehole bedrock wells as it tries to gauge the extent of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in groundwater within Area IV of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in California.
The Energy Department is also seeking to determine if a VOC source exists at Building 4457, part of the Hazardous Materials Storage Area (HMSA), and is measuring the extent of underground bedrock fracturing in the area.
The Energy Department has already found trichloroethylene (TCE) located from 38 to 71 feet below ground surface. The agency is gathering the information on the VOCs, which can have long-term detrimental effects on human health, as the federal and state governments plan remediation at Santa Susana.
The drilling ran from late April into May, and DOE will submit a technical memorandum to the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) to outline its findings, according to a report to the state. The state agency is overseeing cleanup plans for Santa Susana.
The Energy Department owns structures on a 90-acre site within Area IV, within the larger property located in Ventura County. Area IV includes the Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC), where the federal government conducted nuclear research and development from the 1950s until about 1988.
The drilling will help DOE gather information for a Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Facility Investigation Report, which will also be submitted to the state later this year.
The state agency discussed the borehole drilling in a May update on Santa Susana operations. The current goal is for DOE, Boeing, and NASA – the three parties responsible for remediation at the site – to submit cleanup documents to the state agency this year. California envisions actual remediation starting in 2019 and being completed in 2034.
Santa Susana is a 2,849-acre property located 30 miles from Los Angeles. In addition to the government nuclear research, the site was also used for rocket engine tests until the early 2000s.
