Bio
William “Bill” J. Cahill is interim manager of the US ITER Project Support Office, overseeing teams in the areas of logistics and transportation, project controls, systems engineering and configuration management, computing integration, business, human resources, and procurement. In this role he is working with the US ITER director to deliver the project scope within cost and schedule objectives.
Previously, Bill was the US ITER federal project director for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science from 2006 to 2020. In that position, he provided federal oversight of the United States’ contributions to the ITER project. His responsibilities included developing authorization documents and strategies to advance through DOE critical decision processes, overseeing budget formulation and review, and providing support for project execution and the oversight of contractor activities.
Altogether, Bill has more than 30 years of experience with DOE, serving in program and project management positions at DOE headquarters in Washington, D.C., and at the Oak Ridge Site Office. Before joining US ITER, he was the team leader for Infrastructure Reduction at the East Tennessee Technology Park. Other DOE assignments included serving as federal project director for the design and construction of the Environmental Management Waste Management Facility, functioning as a program manager for the Office of Environmental Management, and managing remediation, waste management, and deactivation and decommissioning programs. Early in his career, he was remedial project manager for the Maryland Department of the Environment and a staff geologist for Schnabel Engineering Associates. He holds a bachelor’s degree in geology from Campbell University in North Carolina.