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Mr. Gagel has 27 years of professional and leadership
experience, including 22 years of managing complex and
unique construction design/build and operations projects at
DOE and commercial sites handling a wide range of hazardous,
radioactive (LLW, MLLW, GTCC, TRU), toxic, or biological
wastes. Mr. Gagel has managed projects in all phases
including design, construction, commissioning, and
operations utilizing a wide range of process technologies
from simple processes like solidification, dewatering, super
compaction, chemical and physical decontamination,
ion-exchange/membrane technologies to the complex high
temperature processes like incineration, molten metal
processing, steam reforming, pyrolysis, vitrification and
quantum catalytic extraction.
Current responsibilities with EnergX LLC include project
management of a $300M life cycle cost project processing
highly radioactive tank waste at ORNL and the identification
and commercialization of new technologies and market niches
to enable new business growth.
Prior to joining EnergX, he held leadership positions
with Tetra Tech EC, Foster Wheeler Environmental Corp,
Allied Technology Group Inc, Westinghouse, Scientific
Ecology Group, US Ecology Corp., LUWA Corp., and Chevron.
Projects and operations under his watch have been
successfully completed while achieving excellent safety
records. Mr. Gagel has successfully implemented dozens of
lean, six-sigma, value engineering, and process improvement
projects during his career collectively producing more than
$200M in life cycle cost savings. A specific example of Mr.
Gagel’s creativity and rapid problem solving ability is the
design and development of a custom, water cooled X-ray film
holder that allowed for on-line weld repairs of the Chevron
El Segundo Fluid Catalytic Cracker. The El Segundo FCC was
experiencing premature refractory failure in the area of the
feed nozzles which led to an erosive failure of the vessel
shell above the feed nozzles and a small fire. This project
enabled safe temporary modifications of the FCC which
avoided an unplanned simultaneous shutdown of Chevron’s two
largest FCCs and avoided more than $50M in lost revenue for
Chevron.
For the past 8 years, Mr. Gagel has been involved with
the design, permitting, construction, start-up, safe
operation, and management of the TRU Waste Processing Center
in Oak Ridge. He was responsible for management of start-up,
operations, maintenance, and eventually overall project
management for this $200M DOE project. As the Operations
Manager, he successfully led the commissioning of the
Supernate processing line in 2003 including implementation
of Conduct of Operations and completion of all Operational
Readiness Reviews. Numerous value engineering and ALARA
upgrades in concert with extensive surrogate operations and
preparations enabled completion of the Supernate campaign in
half the originally planned time and with less than 10% of
the allowable collective worker radiation exposure.
Education, Certifications,
and Affiliations:
Certified Quality
Manager, American Society for Quality,
Certified Plant Maintenance Manager, Association for
Facilities Engineering
ANSI-RAB ISO 9000 Certified Lead Auditor Training
Six-Sigma Black Belt, Villanova University Certificate
Program
B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Kentucky
Member, East TN Economic Council
Member Project Management Institute
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