Management of change
- Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Woodward-Clyde Federal Serv., Las Vegas, NV (United States)
The Department of Energy has recognized that change is on the horizon. The Yucca Mountain Project is being carried out under the purview of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) within the Department, OCRWM, the program and the project are under new leadership. This new leadership is restructuring its operations. This has resulted in a reorganization of the Federal management structure at the Yucca Mountain Project Office. The reorganization is designed to formalize and clarify lines of responsibility and accountability and move the Project Office towards a task oriented organization focused on the science and technology required to determine the suitability of Yucca Mountain. This Federal staffing reorganization is a precursor to the appropriate integration and clarification of the roles and responsibilities of the contractors supporting the project. A high priority has been placed upon making changes which enable the federal leadership to exercise appropriate control and make participants more responsible and accountable for their work. Transition to the new organization will be implemented in four phases: (1) establishing the management construct, (2) defining roles and responsibilities of functional management, (3) development of the task performance teams, and (4) subsequent evolution of the {open_quotes}project team{close_quotes} as a whole. The Yucca Mountain Project is an extremely complex, multi-disciplinary project that is a first-of-a-kind. The complexity of the task has demanded a larger number of project participants that include the best of the nation`s resources.
- Research Organization:
- Arizona Univ., Tucson, AZ (United States). Coll. of Engineering and Mines; New Mexico State Univ., University Park, NM (United States); Waste-Management Education and Research Consortium (WERC), Las Cruces, NM (United States); USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 111732
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-940225--Vol.1
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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