Kirk Lachman, a longtime hand around the Department of Energy’s weapons complex and current field office manager of the agency’s Office of Environmental Management at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, is retiring June 27.
Lachman will be retiring from DOE after 30 years of federal service, a spokesperson for the agency said by email Wednesday. Lachman has been in charge of Environmental Management’s Los Alamos field office since June 21, 2020.
A member of the senior executive service, Lachman moved to Los Alamos last year from his prior post as deputy manager of the Carlsbad Field Office, which oversees the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Lachman served as acting manager at Carlsbad for several months after Todd Shrader was promoted in June 2019 from Carlsbad to the No. 2 job with Environmental Management in Washington, D.C.
Before Carlsbad, Lachman held senior roles at Environmental Management headquarters, as well as with the DOE Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management and the and the National Nuclear Security Administration. Prior to his DOE days, Lachman worked about six years in the aerospace industry as an engineer at Texas Instruments and Ball Corp., according to his online biography.
“A replacement search is underway to ensure a smooth transition in EM-LA [Environmental Management-Los Alamos] leadership,” the DOE spokesperson said in the email.
Lachman left not long after EM’s Los Alamos cleanup contractor, N3B Los Alamos, announced a leadership change.
Department of Energy contractor Professional Project Services (Pro2Serve), Oak Ridge, Tenn., this week announced Sherry Browder will become the company’s new president on June 1, succeeding Jeff Salyers, who previously announced his retirement.
Browder is currently Pro2Servce’s executive vice president and chief operating officer, according to a Wednesday press release from the engineering and information services firm
Browder joined Pro2Serve last year and has more than 30 years of experience in business development and project management. She has held prior management posts at UCOR, the Amentum-Jacobs partnership doing environmental cleanup at the Oak Ridge Site, Leidos, SAIC and the Department of Energy.
After retiring as president, Salyers will continue to advise Pro2Serve. “Jeff’s expert technical and management skills have been instrumental in the growth and success of Pro2Serve,” Goff said.
