New Mexico-based Department of Energy contractor Strategic Management Solutions hired Michael Nosbisch as its director of project controls, effective this week.
A former infantry officer in the U.S.Marine Corps who attained the rank of captain before leaving the service in 1994, Nosbisch has more than 30 years of management experience, according to a Strategic Management Solutions, LLC (SMSI) press release.
A consultant since 2009, Nosbisch has worked for leading engineering, procurement and construction firms such as URS Corp., which is now part of Amentum, Jacobs, Kiewit and Parsons. He has also supported projects for the DOE and the National Nuclear Security Administration.
Nosbisch is also a past president and fellow of Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering (AACE) International. A resident of Long Beach, Calif., he has also served as an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California’s civil engineering department for the master of construction management program.
SMSI is a consulting firm that employs about 150 people and concentrates on national security missions for the nuclear weapons complex, according to its website.
Mary Kruger, a 20-year federal manager who joined the Department of Energy a little more than a year ago, is now serving in two different capacities for the agency’s Office of Environmental Management, according to an organization chart posted Monday.
Kruger, already director of regulatory intergovernmental and stakeholder engagement for the Office of Environmental Management, is now also acting deputy assistant secretary for resource management.
On the regulatory and stakeholder engagement front, Kruger reports to Mark Gilbertson. In the resource management job, which includes budget and planning, she reports to Dae Chung. The latter post was previously held by Bindu Jacob, according to the March version of the chart. Jacob, a 12-year veteran of DOE, is now the agency’s acting deputy chief human capital officer, according to her LinkedIn profile.
Kruger only joined DOE in May 2020 but has held management posts with multiple federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Environmental Protection Agency, according to her LinkedIn profile.
Jeff Kerridge, Amentum’s senior vice president of business development for the Nuclear & Environment business unit, has been named to the Civil Nuclear Trade Advisory Committee (CINTAC) by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, the company said this week in a press release.
Made up of private-sector representatives, CINTAC provides advice to the secretary of commerce on development and management of programs to expand U.S. exports of civil nuclear goods and services.
A major contractor for the DOE Office of Environmental Management, the National Nuclear Security Administration and other government entities in North America and in Europe, Maryland-based Amentum employs more than 34,000 people worldwide.
UCOR President and CEO Ken Rueter will serve a three-year term as public director for the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP), the organization said in a Monday press release.
The post was created in 2015 to provide the organization with a corporate perspective from outside the occupational safety and health profession, according to the press release. Rueter replaces former Alaska Tanker CEO Anil Mathur, whose term ends June 30.
Rueter’s term as public director starts July 1 and runs through June 30, 2024, the group said. He continues to lead UCOR, the Amentum-Jacobs venture in charge of cleanup at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee.
