UWC 2022 speaker

Sonya Forrai

Vice President

Long Term Operations

Westinghouse

As Westinghouse’s Vice President of Long-Term Operations (LTO), Sonya collaborates with utilities throughout the world to ensure safe, reliable, and profitable plant operability beyond the original design basis. She is responsible for integrating solutions, leveraging the collective creativity and insights of the owner’s group, and driving the use of digitalization to modernize operations.

Prior to her current role, Sonya served for nearly ten years in Westinghouse’s account management organization, in various leadership roles, eventually as Region Vice President, where she was intimately involved with fuel and component supply, challenging engineering scopes, instrumentation and controls upgrades, outage services and first-of-a-kind technology development and delivery.

Sonya’s Westinghouse career includes leadership positions in Corporate Strategy, partnership development, product management and contracting. During her tenure as Product Manager, Steam Generator Services, she commercialized seven new products.

In Westinghouse’s New Plant business, Sonya completed an intensive training program in Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing principles. Thereafter, she led diverse teams involved with the first AP1000 contract, before becoming the manager of continuous improvement.

Sonya built a strong foundation of serving the needs of plant operators, beginning twenty-five years ago, as a Board-Certified safety engineer. She supported routine outage services as well as large-scale field projects such as chemical cleaning, steam generator sleeving, split pin, reactor vessel head replacements and 10-year in-service inspections.

Sonya holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, is a Six Sigma Black Belt, and is a graduate of Duquesne University’s Executive Leadership and Harvard Business Review’s High Potential programs.