14
As Material Testing – Lead at Bureau Veritas’ AIRS group, Ronnie James maintains the day-to-day running
and operations of the group’s laboratory.
With experience in business development, and extensive knowledge from previous materials testing
management roles, Ronnie is skilled at understanding and meeting the needs of company clients. He
works well and effectively in the professional environment he is engaged, being both quick to adapt
to various situations, and at ease when communicating with a diversity of people.
Ronnie places the highest priority on providing quality service to his clients, which is reflected in his
ability to re-engage previous clients and secure new business for the AIRS group. He understands that
if clients do not receive the right level of service, they will go elsewhere.
A member of the WA Mining Club for one year now, Ronnie has made many new connections in that
time by attending Club events, which he finds “fantastic places to meet new associates”.
Most admired business leader:
Richard Branson
Likes doing away from work:
Spending time with family and playing indoor soccer
Future goals:
To travel around Australia
Preferred dinner guest:
Robert Redford
Bureau Veritas is an international group
specialised in the inspection, analysis,
audit, and certification of products,
infrastructure (buildings, industrial sites,
equipment and ships) and management
systems in relation to regulatory or
voluntary standards. Recognised and
accredited by major national and
international organisations, the group
is present in 140 countries through a
network of 1,300 offices and laboratories.
It has more than 60,000 employees and
a client base of more than 370,000.
Bureau Veritas’ Asset Integrity and
Reliability Services (AIRS) provides a
full suite of core decision support
technology services including condition
monitoring, non-destructive testing
(
NDT), structural integrity, metallurgical
services and root cause analysis.
Within major minerals and energy
processing plants, AIRS can provide
specialised risk-based inspection and
offer a fully integrated engineering asset
management support service, which
enables clients to extend the lives of their
assets and avoid costly and catastrophic
component failures and downtime.
Following a particularly severe winter
during the 1820s, when violent storms
raged across Europe causing some
2,000
shipwrecks and 20,000 deaths,
the Information Office for Maritime
Insurance was founded in Antwerp
in 1828. It had one simple mission:
to give shipping underwriters up-to-date
information on premiums in use
at commercial centres and provide
precise information on the state of
ships and equipment. In 1829, the
company was renamed Bureau Veritas,
adopted the emblem of ‘Truth’ as its
official logo and published its first
Register (10,000 ships). In 1833 the head
office transferred from Antwerp to Paris.
Meet WAMC Member – Ronnie James
BUREAU VERITAS
…
as large as it is historic
The company was quoted in three Jules Verne novels:
20,000
Leagues under the Sea
(1869),
The Mysterious
Island
(1874)
and
The Survivors of the Chancellor
(1875),
and its name has been entered in two dictionaries.
?
YOU
KNOW
DID
Contact:
Bureau Veritas
T: 0408 208 727
E:
ronnie.james@au.bureauveritas.com
www.bureauveritas.com.au