Steven A. Coleman

Steven started at Los Alamos National Laboratory in November 2022 as Associate Laboratory Director for Environment, Safety, Health and Quality.

He is leader and educator with a PhD in management and a combined 36 years of diversified experience in environment, safety and health leadership; operations; and project engineering/management at nuclear-capable facilities. He has worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory for 30 years, most recently as Associate Laboratory Director of Environment, Safety and Health. In the position, he is responsible for the operations of the ES&H Directorate, with 140 engineers and technical staff and an annual budget of about $36M.

Steven has significant experience in other leadership roles, including as manager of the Radiological Control Division at Brookhaven. In that role, he managed an annual budget of $7.5 million and guided the implementation of the Laboratory’s nuclear, radiological control, and protection programs. This involved extensive collaboration with the DOE Site Office and state and local regulators to set environment, safety and health strategic goals for Brookhaven’s radiological operations. As Integrated Safety Management Program Manager, he established BNL’s programmatic framework for implementing DOE’s Integrated Safety Management. He also worked as Brookhaven’s Waste Operations Manager, managing all aspects of BNL’s radioactive and hazardous waste management programs, including day-to-day Hazard Category 2 Nuclear, Decontamination and Decommissioning, and Environmental Restoration operations.