Stacy Charboneau, as expected, was officially named the new Manager of the Department of Energy’s Richland Operations Office yesterday. WC Monitor first reported in late November that Charboneau, who previously held the title of acting deputy manager, was the top candidate to head the Richland Operations Office at Hanford. The position of Richland Operations Office manager has been vacant on a full-time basis since Matt McCormick retired from DOE in June. Since then, the office has been headed on an acting basis by Deputy Manager Doug Shoop. “Stacy is a talented and seasoned senior executive with tremendous technical and managerial expertise on all aspects of the Hanford cleanup,” Mark Whitney, acting Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental Management, said in yesterday’s announcement. “Her education, technical and programmatic expertise, and past experience make her uniquely qualified to lead the talented workforce responsible for completing the next and critical phase of the important RL cleanup work.”
Charboneau has held a number of managerial roles for DOE at Hanford, including having previously served as assistant manager for safety and environment at the Richland Operations Office, deputy manager of the Office of River Protection, assistant manager for the tank farms project at the Office of River Protection and deputy assistant manager for River Corridor cleanup at the Richland Operations Office, among other positions. Charboneau’s career at Hanford began in 1994, according to DOE, when she served as an engineer in the Waste Operations Division, and prior to coming to Hanford, she was at the U.S. Department of Defense’s Naval Undersea Warfare Center.