Ken Harrawood
President & Program Manager
Ken Harrawood brings more than 39 years of project and program management experience in the nuclear and hazardous waste industries, both domestically and internationally, to his role as President of Salado Isolation Mining Contractors (SIMCO) and Program Manager at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico. In this role, Ken oversees the management and operation of WIPP, the nation’s only deep geologic repository for defense-related transuranic (TRU) nuclear waste.
Ken’s career includes leadership roles at multiple DOE sites, including the Hanford Site in Washington, the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site in Colorado, the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee, the West Valley Demonstration Site in New York, and the Sellafield Site in the United Kingdom. His domestic and international experience includes expertise in nuclear facility operations, regulatory compliance, and waste disposition.
Before joining SIMCO, Ken served as Program Manager for the Bechtel-led team at the U.S. Department of Defense’s Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant in Colorado, where he was responsible for the safe destruction of more than 780,000 World War II-era chemical weapons munitions.
Ken served in the U.S. Navy’s Nuclear Power program for eight years before contributing to environmental cleanup efforts across the DOE complex. He led the safe startup of operations at the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project at Idaho National Laboratory and directed the transuranic waste program at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina.