Reinhard Knerr, a Department of Energy executive who retired in January after more than a quarter-century federal career, is now vice president of technical services at Navarro Research & Engineering.
Knerr announced his new position in a post on his LinkedIn page within the past week. “I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position,” Knerr said on the page on Thursday Feb. 26.
Most recently the acting manager of DOE’s Portsmouth Paducah Project Office in Lexington, Ky., Knerr emailed colleagues in mid-January informing them he was retiring as a fed and said he would be taking a new job, which he did not disclose at the time.
It appears Knerr joined Navarro within days after leaving government, based upon the LinkedIn page. Navarro is a mid-size DOE contractor. It oversees the 222-S Laboratory at the Hanford Site in Washington state and environmental cleanup at the Nevada National Security Site.
In addition to working in a variety of supervisory jobs at PPPO over the years, Knerr also served nearly three years as manager of DOE’s Carlsbad, N.M. Field Office, which oversees the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.
Knerr has also worked as a nuclear safety engineer for three different companies, according to his LinkedIn bio.