The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Office recently named Johnathan Sitzlar as director of the Facilities, Information, and Reservation Management Division, or FIRMD, in the Office of Assistant Manager for Administration at DOE-ORO.
In this position, Sitzlar directs a staff of 24 federal employees in the FIRMD with responsibility for the development and execution of a variety of programs including reservation management and infrastructure and facility management.
Sitzlar is directly responsible for all support services and reservation management issues on the DOE Oak Ridge Reservation. His duties also include planning and executing programs for the federal workforce designed to provide a clean, safe work environment with all the necessary resources required for ORO employees and customer organizations to fulfill their assigned missions.
Since 2009, Sitzlar has served as the supervisory property manager and contracting officer for the U.S. General Services Administration in Knoxville. In that position, he was responsible for leading a team that managed more than three million square feet of federally-owned and leased assets/property, valued in excess of $100 million dollars. He has also held positions with the Knoxville Office of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Tennessee.
Sitzlar holds a bachelor’s degree in business and organization management from Maryville College in Maryville and an MBA from Tusculum College in Greeneville, Tennessee. He is a Level II Federal Contracting Officer and a member of the USDA Graduate School Executive Potential Program.
Historically or currently, Sitzler is active in several community organizations including Helen Ross-McNabb Center, Combined Federal Campaign, East Tennessee Children’s Hospital Benefit-Volunteer Committee Chair, Blount County Historical Trust, Second Harvest Food Bank, and Coats for the Cold Angel Tree-Federal Coordinator.
A native of Maryville, Sitzlar and his wife, Mandy, have a 14-month-old son, Harrison. They reside in Blount County.
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