Joshua Vajda has been appointed UCOR Chief Engineer, reporting to Tim McEvoy, Director of Technical and Engineering Services. In this role, Joshua will serve as the design authority, ensuring technical excellence, design standards, and engineering program requirements are maintained across UCOR’s engineering organization.
Joshua brings more than 20 years of experience in nuclear operations, reactor design, regulatory policy, and environmental remediation across the DOE complex and commercial industry.
Before joining UCOR, he served as regulatory lead and subject-matter expert for transuranic waste characterization and acceptance at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, where he played a key role in DOE’s surplus plutonium disposition mission.
At UCOR, he most recently led engineering efforts for the deactivation of two historically significant reactor facilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory—the Low Intensity Test Reactor and Oak Ridge Research Reactor.
Joshua holds a doctorate in Engineering Management from The George Washington University, master’s degrees in Nuclear Engineering (University of Idaho) and Materials Science and Engineering (University of Virginia), and a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University. He is also a licensed professional engineer in both mechanical and nuclear engineering and certified in the practice of health physics (CHP).
Please congratulate Joshua and support him in his important new UCOR assignment.
