Karey Malyszko is Newport News Shipbuilding’s new vice president of Plant Operations, which includes Waterfront Support Services (X36), Facilities, Environmental Health and Safety, and Security. Newport News Shipbuilding President Jennifer Boykin announced Malyszko’s promotion in a Jan. 24 message to employees.

Since joining the shipyard in 2004 as a structural engineer in the Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) Program, Malyszko has served in positions of increasing responsibility in Nuclear Propulsion-Construction and Process Engineering, Nuclear Propulsion Test Engineering, Radiological Controls, and the NNS Emergency Response Organization.

She succeeds Dru Branche, who retired last month.