Las Vegas-based Longenecker & Associates has hired Brian Bielecki, a longtime manager with experience at Department of Energy sites and the nuclear power industry, as its group vice president for mission assurance.
The Energy Department subcontractor announced the addition Monday, the same day Bielecki joined the company.
Bielecki, who reports to Senior Vice President for Operations Christine Gelles, replaces Craig Ferguson, who left earlier this year to become the chief operating officer at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
Bielecki heads L&A’s Mission Assurance business unit, which includes contractor assurance, quality assurance, and safety support provided by Longenecker at DOE sites such as the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, and the Nevada National Security Site.
“Mission Assurance is one of the core functions of L&A—finding and fixing problems before they impact mission,” CEO Bonnie Longenecker said in the release. She called Bielecki “an experienced problem-solver at both the weapons labs and within the commercial nuclear power industry.”
Bielecki has worked in various management and leadership roles at Exelon Corp., the Illinois-based electric power company, since 2013. While at Exelon he served a 30-month stint for the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) and World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO), leading evaluations of nuclear power plant engineering and performance.
Prior to joining Exelon, Bielecki held management team posts within the DOE weapons complex, often as a manager for contractor Lockheed Martin, according to his LinkedIn profile. He worked at the Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico as director of security and emergency management, and at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory in New York as senior manager for engineering and operations.
