James Worth

Operations Director at VolkerStevin

Greater Cheshire West and Chester Area

About

Graduating University of Plymouth in 2002 with B-Eng (Hons) Civil and Coastal Engineering, I have worked for major civil engineering contractors and in a sub contract environment across a wide range of specialisms ranging from £250k to £125m. I passed my ICE review in 2007 gaining my MICE CEng. Also a member of the Chartered Institute of Highways and Transportation (CIHT) and Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). I have led major highways schemes, water treatment projects, hydro generation,nuclear & energy transmission and coastal defence schemes in senior positions. In 2015 I took a position at Volker Stevin leading varied projects and departments from significant water treatment plant upgrades to major directional drilling works both in the UK and in the Netherlands. Presently leading the Volker Energy and Volker Trenchless Solutions business’ delivering EHV cable under-grounding projects and major directional drilling across the UK.

Experience

  • VolkerStevin (11 yrs 6 mos)
    • Operations Director
      Aug 2024 - Present · 2 yrs

    • Contracts Director
      Apr 2019 - Aug 2024 · 5 yrs 5 mos

    • Contract Manager
      Feb 2015 - Apr 2019 · 4 yrs 3 mos

  • General Manager at Volker Trenchless Solutions
    Apr 2019 - Present · 7 yrs 4 mos

    Lead for HDD drilling operations JV of Volker Stevin and Visser and Smit Hanab

  • General Manager at Visser & Smit Hanab
    Apr 2019 - May 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Chief Engineer at Dawnus
    Sep 2013 - Feb 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Carillion (5 yrs 11 mos)
    • Engineering Manager
      May 2012 - Sep 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos

    • Site Agent
      Nov 2007 - May 2012 · 4 yrs 7 mos