The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management is looking to beef up its staff devoted to procurement through what it calls the Environmental Management Career Acquisition Program, DOE said Friday.
“Given how integral acquisition and contracting is to how we conduct our work, ensuring continuity in the procurement function is essential to the [Environmental Management] mission,” said Angela Watmore, deputy assistant secretary for acquisition and project management at the cleanup office, said in the press release.
DOE’s press release provides a link to a USA jobs website that indicates the Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center has multiple openings for contract specialists. Full-time procurement posts are available at Cincinnati, Washington, and nine DOE cleanup field offices across the country.
New security access facilities have arrived at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina as the complex prepares for increased construction activity in K Area including installation of new Surplus Plutonium Disposition project gloveboxes.
A new four-lane facility, with glass panels used across the DOE complex, will replace a much smaller, single-lane entry facility, DOE said in a Thursday press release. The K Area is where DOE provides interim storage of plutonium and excess plutonium and other special nuclear materials, according to the agency.
The new Material Access Area Entry Control Facility, which should be able to process twice the number of workers currently entering the boundary, is scheduled for operation in the summer of 2024, DOE said in the release. Savannah River’s Entry Control Facility will include special nuclear material monitors and various other security equipment, according to the DOE press release.
Two Los Alamos National Laboratory staff members, Marianne Francois and Michael Pettes were named fellows in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, having been nominated by their society peers and based on their engineering achievements.
Francois, leader of the Theoretical division, was nominated for significant contributions in research and leadership. Francois is an expert in computational multiphase flow, heat transfer, materials processing and associated numerical methods, according to the lab.
Pettes is a scientist and deputy group leader at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies. He was recognized for his contributions to strain and defect engineering as well as service and leadership in mechanical engineering. His contributions focus on engineering materials to impart new functionalities relevant to applications in energy, optical communications and mechanical performance.