The Department of Energy has named Brian Stickney deputy manager and chief operating officer for the Richland Operations Office at the Hanford Site in Washington state effective this week.
Stickney had been acting as deputy manager since October following the retirement of Joe Franco, Hanford’s site manager Brian Vance announced in a May 19 email to employees at the former plutonium production complex. Following Franco’s retirement from DOE, he took a job with Nuclear Waste Partnership, the prime for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico.
As deputy manager for Richland, Stickney will report to Vance and oversee more than 200 federal staff who manage two prime contractors and more than 5,000 contractor employees. Stickney will help manage day-to-day operations for the Richland office, including safety, construction, procurement and environmental remediation.
Stickney joined DOE at Hanford in 2009 after serving in the U.S. Army as an aviation officer. He is a decorated veteran of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, having received multiple awards, including the Bronze Star Medal and two Air Medals, Vance said in the email.
Glenn Sklar, former general manager for the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, has joined the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General as a deputy inspector general.
Sklar joined the Office of Inspector General in December after leaving the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, where he was responsible for operations, budget and related issues at the 110-employee agency that serves as an independent safety watchdog for Department of Energy nuclear facilities, according to a post on an OIG website.
A 15-year member of the senior executive service, Sklar has also had a stint overseeing thousands of the employees at the Social Security Administration, the Homeland Security OIG said.
Last month, the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board named James Biggins as the new general manager. Biggins, is a former general counsel at the board and had been acting general manager since shortly after Sklar’s departure.
Harry Burgess, the county manager for Los Alamos County, N.M., who has spent much of his career in the shadow of the Department of Energy’s weapons complex, is retiring today.
Deputy County Manager Steven Lynne is filling the role on an acting basis while the county council considers a permanent replacement, Burgess said.
Burgess alluded to his imminent departure in a Tuesday email to Weapons Complex Monitor in which he declined comment on the recent decision to disband by the Regional Coalition of LANL Communities, a group designed to promote environmental remediation and economic development in the region around the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Burgess has been Los Alamos County manager for almost 10 years and before that he spent six years as city administrator for Carlsbad, N.M., near DOE’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), according to his LinkedIn profile. During a four-year stint in an administrative job for Eddy County, Burgess familiarized himself with a lot of DOE issues at the WIPP site, he told the Los Alamos Reporter in April.
