Biography
Ray J. Corey
Assistant Manager for Safety and Environment
DOE Richland Operations Office
DOE ISM Co-Champion
U.S. Department of Energy
Ray Corey currently serves as the Assistance Manager for Safety and Environment at the DOE Richland Operations office (RL). Current duties include oversight of environmental, safety, health, transportation, and quality assurance programs at the Hanford site, including management of the DOE RL facility representative and Safety programs, and nuclear safety basis reviews. Mr. Corey currently manages approximately 60 federal employees.
Mr. Corey was recently appointed as a DOE complex wide ISM Co-Champion, and looks forward to applying his many years of management experience and diverse technical skills to enhancing DOE's Integrated Safety Management System, and continuously improving the Department's safety culture. Ray's professional knowledge and experience with safety initiatives across a variety of DOE programs and sites, along with recent service as ISM Champion at RL, have equipped him to meet the challenge of successfully guiding the constructive evolution of DOE's safety culture.
Prior to his assignment to DOE Richland in August 2008, Mr. Corey served 5 years as the Associate Director of Technical Services for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Service Center where he managed technical support to NNSA Headquarters and Site Offices include environmental, industrial and nuclear safety, package certification and transportation management, program and project management, and technical security. Mr. Corey was responsible for approximately 120 federal employees.
Mr. Corey was also employed for 13 years at the former DOE Oakland Operations Office. His duties there included Deputy Site Manager and Site Manager, where he was responsible for the management oversight of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) including contract administration, safety and security operations, construction, and Defense and Nonproliferation Programs. Mr. Corey was responsible for approximately 100 federal employees at the Livermore Site Office with a LLNL budget of about $1.3B.
Mr. Corey has been employed by the U.S. Department of Energy since 1989. While at DOE, he has held positions as an environmental engineer, Chief of the Waste Management Operations Branch, Deputy Assistant Manager for Environmental Management, and the Deputy Assistant Manager for National Security. Mr. Corey has also been employed as an environmental engineer by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Ray Corey received his bachelor's degree in Environmental Engineering from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1985 and a bachelor's degree in Political Science from the University of New Mexico in 1981. Mr. Corey is a charter member of the New Mexico Tau Beta Pi Gamma Chapter, a national engineering honorary society.