Steven D. Richardson
Deputy Director for Operations/Chief Operating Officer
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Steven D. Richardson is Deputy Director for Operations/Chief Operating Officer
for Argonne National Laboratory. He is responsible for providing operations
and business management support for programmatic activities in compliance with
environmental, safety, health and quality (ESH&Q) requirements and best-management
practices. In this role, he will integrate the expertise and best commercial
practices of Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc., and BWX Technologies, Inc., into
Argonne's culture and practices, encourage and develop small-business opportunities
involving Argonne and Argonne-developed technology, and will build relationships
with the U.S. Department of Energy, Argonne 's programmatic directorates, subcontractors,
suppliers and communities. A key area of responsibility will be guiding the
laboratory in implementing a standards-based management approach that fully
aligns mission support functions to the research and development programs.
Richardson comes to Argonne from the Jacobs Engineering Group, which he joined
in March 2000 after retiring as the Deputy Manager of the U.S. Department
of Energy's Oak Ridge Operations Office. In several assignments within Jacobs,
he held positions with both operations and sales responsibilities with a primary
focus on the Jacobs contracts with the Department of Energy and other nuclear
related contracts.
Prior to his assignment as the Oak Ridge Deputy Manager in 1995, Richardson
held a number of DOE executive positions, both at the Savannah River Operations
Office in Aiken , S.C. , and DOE Headquarters in Washington , D.C. Before
joining DOE in 1989, Richardson was the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Director,
responsible for regulatory oversight of the Tennessee Valley Authority nuclear
power program restart.
A native of Syracuse , N.Y. , Richardson graduated from the Ohio State University
in 1972 with two degrees in mechanical engineering. He began his career as
an officer in the U.S. Navy, where he was responsible for the design, manufacture
and operation of various nuclear-powered submarine and surface ship propulsion
components.
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