Andrew McNerney Named Assistant Laboratory Director For Facilities & Operations at Brookhaven Lab
April 18, 2005
UPTON, NY - Andrew McNerney has been named Assistant Laboratory Director for Facilities & Operations (ALD for F&O) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, effective April 1. An electrical engineer who has worked for the Laboratory for 40 years, McNerney had served as Interim ALD for F&O since November 2003.
In his current position, McNerney is in charge of a $100-million budget and approximately 550 employees at the 5,300-acre facility, which has more than 350 buildings on its sprawling campus. He is in charge of five support divisions, including the Plant Engineering Division, Safeguards & Security Division, Central Fabrication Services, Emergency Services Division, and Staff Services Division.
"I am honored to have been chosen for this position, and it is a privilege to work with so many talented people at the Laboratory," McNerney said. "I hope to foster cooperation between the science and support sides of the Lab and integrate the resources of this directorate to improve service."
He added, "With a shrinking Laboratory budget, the biggest challenge is to be innovative in maintaining services and upgrading Brookhaven's infrastructure to support the Laboratory's scientific mission. It's important to foster pride in the work we do and to value our employees and their contributions to Brookhaven. Notably, we are starting to construct the new Research Support Building, and we hope to be breaking ground soon for the Center for Functional Nanomaterials."
Born in Brooklyn, NY, McNerney earned his B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering in 1962 and 1965, respectively, from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. He joined Brookhaven Lab in 1965 as a development engineer in the then Accelerator Department. He worked on a variety of electrical engineering projects for high-energy particle accelerators and superconducting power transmission lines.
McNerney has served as a chief engineer and/or project manager for the past 20 years, and before becoming Interim ALD for F&O, he was Associate Department Chair for Operations in the Laboratory's Collider-Accelerator Department and project manager for the NASA Space Radiation Laboratory Project, an experimental facility at Brookhaven that uses heavy-ion beams for radiation effects studies for the NASA humans-in-space program.
In 1991, McNerney was honored with the Laboratory's Brookhaven Award, which recognizes key contributors in support functions whose performance and achievements represent outstanding service to the Laboratory. In 2003, he was chosen to receive the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Region I Award for Electrical Engineering Management.
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