President, Technical Services Group
BWX Technologies, Inc.
Heatherly H. Dukes is president of BWX Technologies, Inc.’s (BWXT) Technical Service Group (TSG).
As president, Ms. Dukes oversees critical work for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), especially the Office of Nuclear Energy missions, the National Nuclear Security Administration, environmental management cleanup initiatives, Naval Reactors deactivation and decommissioning (D&D) priorities, and operations and maintenance activities that support NASA’s Space Launch System, the most powerful rocket in the world.
Ms. Dukes has more than 37 years of experience in the nuclear industry, including 35 years of diverse management roles in project management, operations, engineering, waste management, maintenance, nuclear safety and criticality safety, and D&D. She joined the Company in 1995 and has been in her current role since 2018.
During her career, Ms. Dukes has held key positions at the Savannah River site in Aiken, South Carolina, the West Valley Demonstration Project in New York and Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth LLC in Portsmouth, Ohio. Her depth and breadth of experience include reactor operations, deactivation and/or demolition of around 200 facilities, engineering and construction support for Capital Asset projects, disposition and storage of vitrified high-level waste canisters and characterization and cleanup projects for enrichment facilities.
Ms. Dukes earned her Bachelor of Science in nuclear engineering from the University of Florida and holds a Master of Business Administration from Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management.