PWD Meridian earns 3 top awards

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. –The Public Works Department at Naval Air Station Meridian, Miss., garnered three of the top five slots for Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southeast’s 2015 Employee and Supervisors of the Year. PWD Meridian’s Brandon Maxwell, utilities energy management technician, was selected ‘Employee of the Year 2015 Tier I’ (GS11 and below) for support of the Advanced Metering Infrastructure program. PWDM’s James Coleman, water treatment plant operator, was selected ‘Wage Grade Employee of the Year’; and Matthew Copeland, facility sustainment branch head, was named ‘General Schedule Supervisor of the Year’. Another Gulf Coast PWD representative was NAS Pensacola, Fla.'s facility shop supervisor Frank Derise, who was also named a ‘Wage Grade Supervisor of the Year’ for his expertise in handling of a barracks project located at NAS-Joint Reserve Base New Orleans. (Source: Naval Facilities Engineering Command 04/20/16)