Bio
Senior Procurement Officer, RPF
As Senior Procurement Officer, and construction lead for ORNL’s Facilities and Operations Division, Ray Turowski helps support procurement officers responsible for the formation, bid, evaluate, award and day-to-day management of construction and service subcontracts; assists the procurement manager with staff and assignment planning; provides input to project schedules and risk profiles; and manages high-profile subcontracts.
Ray has more than 20 years of experience in the field. Prior to joining ORNL in 2021, Ray was subcontracts manager for Bechtel National Inc., working on the Uranium Processing Facility at Y-12 National Security Complex and Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant at Blue Grass Army Depot in Richmond, Ky. He was procurement analyst for Bechtel’s Global Business Unit Functional Office in Maryland and was lead subcontracts administrator, construction engineer and plant designer for the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant Project at the DOE Hanford Site in Washington.
Ray holds a Bachelor of Science degree in architectural studies from Washington State University.