EM Kicks Off New Acquisition Career Development Program

WASHINGTON, D.C. – EM is strengthening its procurement capabilities to ensure the cleanup program has talented, capable acquisition professionals now and in the future with the launch of the EM Career Acquisition Program (ECAP).

ECAP will continually develop a cadre of trained, experienced acquisition professionals to support the EM cleanup mission by flexibly recruiting and training acquisition professionals with the mobility to support resource needs across the EM complex.

The initiative is critical to EM succession planning. Recruiting, training and retaining a highly skilled, technically focused and disciplined workforce of acquisition professionals is paramount to the success of the EM mission.

“Given how integral acquisition and contracting is to how we conduct our work, ensuring continuity in the procurement function is essential to the EM mission,” said Angela Watmore, EM deputy assistant secretary for acquisition and project management.

Almost all of EM’s vital cleanup work at 15 sites in 11 states is accomplished through contracts with private industry. EM’s contract portfolio includes a variety of services, including facility and technical support, and remediation.

In addition, EM’s pivot to the End State Contracting Model requires that the cleanup program ensures a stable pipeline of talented acquisition professionals is available to award and administer task orders that effectively advance the cleanup mission in an accelerated manner. That model focuses on accelerating cleanup, while reducing financial risk and environmental liability to the government, and fairly sharing risk between the government and contractor to achieve desired end states.

Click here and here for further information to apply for ECAP positions at USAJobs.

Contact Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center Acquisition Integration Lead Travis Marshall at [email protected] for questions.