OAK RIDGE, TN., USA: Atkins Nuclear Secured Holding Corporation (ANS), a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, is pleased to announce the appointment of Jim Rugg as its new President. Mr. Rugg takes over for Tom Jouvanis who is retiring after 20 years with the Company. Mr. Rugg will lead ANS’ market growth by supporting clients in delivering complex nuclear and high-hazard industrial projects and diversification of our project portfolio in site management and operations, cleanup and decommissioning work, nuclear new build and Net Zero initiatives. Mr. Rugg’s appointment will take effect February 27, 2023.
“Meeting our clients strong demand for nuclear new builds and responsible waste management is the cornerstone of our nuclear sector expertise,” said Joe St. Julian, President, Nuclear, SNC-Lavalin. “Jim’s experience working with the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management and the National Nuclear Security Administration uniquely qualifies him to lead ANS into the next chapter, ensuring our clients federal market needs continue to be met.”
Mr. Rugg has experience in execution across facility lifecycles, organizational leadership, and business development. He intends to build upon ANS’ strengths in site management, nuclear operations, specialty engineering and technology based cleanup approaches while leading the organization towards new growth markets within the sector, to include the defense and aerospace industries. Most recently Jim was Operations Manager for Defense and Space for Bechtel, where he was responsible for providing management guidance and monitoring the performance of all projects within the business unit.
“ANS is uniquely positioned to capture a greater share of the market as our clients continue to demand responsible, disciplined high-hazard operations and cleanup and decommissioning of sites while expanding their clean energy footprint for the future,” said Jim Rugg, President, Atkins Nuclear Secured.
Mr. Rugg is well-known in the nuclear industry, delivering to the Department of Energy (DOE) and Environmental Management (EM). Prior to joining Atkins Nuclear Secured Holdings Corporation, he spent five years at the Savannah River Remediation (SRR) liquid waste project, managing the safe storage and treatment of high and low-level radioactive waste. Before that he worked in a project management capacity at the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant in eastern Washington State and in plant operations management at the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project in Idaho. In addition to DOE-EM work, Jim has experience working on National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) programs as the Deputy Project Manager for the multi-billion-dollar Uranium Processing Facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, TN.
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About Atkins Nuclear Secured
Atkins Nuclear Secured Holdings Corporation is a business unit within SNC-Lavalin’s global nuclear sector focused on the US federal market. With strengths in nuclear operations, process design engineering, waste management, characterization, transportation, disposition and high-level waste technologies, Nuclear Secured is a partner in the team managing the Tank Operations contract at Hanford, leads the teams managing the DUF6 plants in Portsmouth and Paducah and the Canadian Nuclear Laboratories in Ontario, and manages the U-233 project in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. At Atkins Nuclear Secured, we safely deliver high consequence, technically complex missions for federal governments. SNC-Lavalin acquired WS Atkins plc on July 3, 2017.
About SNC-Lavalin
Founded in 1911, SNC-Lavalin is a fully integrated professional services and project management company with offices around the world dedicated to engineering a better future for our planet and its people. We create sustainable solutions that connect people, technology and data to design, deliver and operate the most complex projects. We deploy global capabilities locally to our clients and deliver unique end-to-end services across the whole life cycle of an asset including consulting, advisory & environmental services, intelligent networks & cybersecurity, design & engineering, procurement, project & construction management, operations & maintenance, decommissioning and capital – and delivered to clients in key strategic sectors such as Engineering Services, Nuclear, Operations & Maintenance and Capital. News and information are available at snclavalin.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
About Atkins
Atkins (www.atkinsglobal.com) is one of the world’s most respected design, engineering and project management consultancies, employing over 18,300 people across the UK, North America, Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific and Europe. We build long-term trusted partnerships to create a world where lives are enriched through the implementation of our ideas. You can view Atkins’ recent projects here.
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