In conjunction with local sections of the Society of Women Engineers and the American Chemical Society, the Central Savannah River Local Section is happy to have newly appointed Savannah River Nuclear Solutions President and CEO Carol Johnson speak at this month's meeting. Carol will be speaking on "Managing Your Career." There will be time for networking and socializing, followed by dinner and our speaker. Dinner will be catered by Newberry Hall and a cash bar will be available.
Carol Johnson is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (SRNS). She is responsible to the Department of Energy for the safe, effective, and efficient management and operations of the Savannah River Site (SRS). Her responsibilities include providing vision, leadership, mission growth, technological advancement, a performance-based culture of safety and operational excellence at the Site.
Carol Johnson has more than 30 years of leadership experience in the operation of high hazard nuclear facilities, environmental management, decommissioning and infrastructure at several DOE locations. Prior to joining SRNS, Johnson was President and Project Manager at Washington Closure Hanford, LLC, at the Hanford Site in Richland, Wa., where she led the $2.4 billion environment cleanup of the Hanford 220-square-mile Columbia River Corridor.
She has also served as the Executive Director of Infrastructure at the URS-led Sellafield remediation project in the United Kingdom, where she was responsible for critical nuclear safety related infrastructure and support services, commercial fuel transport, and nuclear materials safeguards and security.
As Director of Infrastructure for Battelle Energy Alliance at Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Johnson successfully managed infrastructure capital projects for both research facilities and support facilities and led the effort to develop and implement a behavior-based safety strategy for INL. Johnson also provided operations and management consulting services as the Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Advisor Program, including development of a work control system for the laboratory.
Johnson returns to SRS where she held positions from 1981 to 2003 as business manager for all nuclear operations, general manager for facility support services, area operations manager for nuclear materials storage and stabilization in F Area plutonium processing facilities, and facility manager for the high level waste tank farm and effluent treatment facilities.
Johnson served on numerous boards in the Tri-Cities in Washington state, serving on the Chaplaincy Board of Directors, the United Way Board of Directors and Tri-Cities Development Council.
Carol and her husband Mike Johnson reside in Aiken.
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