People & Culture

As part of Jord’s 50 year celebrations, our annual cricket match took place at Bowral’s stunning Glenquarry Oval. Thanks to Steve Turner and his trusty drone, the natural beauty of the venue could be captured. Aussie cricket legend Merv Hughes joined us for the day, to assist with sledging duties in amongst his official tasks of his signature pre-match warm up, and umpiring the cricket.

As part of Jord’s People Strategy, we are dedicated to enhancing capability and boosting engagement within our teams. Over the past few months, our Head of People and Culture, Erin Collins, has co-led Jord’s Influencing Without Authority program alongside key members of our global People and Culture team. Together, they’ve trained more than 300 Jord employees across our offices in Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, MENA, and India, empowering them with the skills to navigate matrix environments and collaborate effectively.

This program was designed to help participants identify their personal influencing style, explore different approaches in action, and learn how to adapt working in cross functional teams. Additionally, it provided an opportunity to practice these skills through real-life scenarios relevant to their work at Jord.

At Jord, we attribute our more than 50 years of success and continued growth to the “can-do” spirit of our people. To celebrate this dynamic culture, we invite team members to nominate colleagues who have demonstrated creativity and gone the extra mile in their contributions.

Let us celebrate the success of our most recent Can Do Award Winners.

Steve Turner

Steve’s efforts are a crucial part of keeping Jord’s IT infrastructure running seamlessly, allowing the organisation to operate without interruptions. Whether it’s handling routine maintenance tasks or addressing unexpected technical challenges, Steve approaches each task with meticulous attention to detail, always striving for optimal performance. 

Christine Decosterd & Katherine Lombard

This nomination recognises the versatility, commitment and client-focused approach of Christine and Katherine. Both operate beyond their defined roles, wearing multiple hats to support the business. Analytical expertise & ability to deliver successful outcomes make them invaluable to both the company and to our very appreciative clients.

Chris Xie, Rambilas Koli & Vimal Zala

This wonderful team worked tirelessly on one of Jord’s largest Gas ACC orders. A project of this scale requires unwavering commitment, teamwork & a willingness to push boundaries. Great job!

This guy is the best of the best, as judged by the many people at Jord who have had the honour and pleasure to work with him.

Whether in work or in life, problems that arise have always been met with a shrug of the shoulders and a laugh, followed by “we will find a way to fix it the problem”. The (previously) ubiquitous clove
cigarette may no longer be there, but the smile still remains.

This publication phoned around various people for a quick word about Busra, to mark his 20th year at Jord. Common themes included “absolute legend”, “technically astute”, “easy to work with”, “generous with time and knowledge”. Our favourite description was “a warrior”. Not only has Busra fought and won the good fight for Jord on many projects over two decades, he’s more recently fought and won the most important one of all, in regards to his health.

God bless you Busra, your wife Danawati, your four kids and five (for now) grandsons. Stay strong, warrior!

Cletus participated in an industry challenge, organized by the University of Queensland, that focused on problems and opportunities surrounding drinking water. 40 teams comprising 140 participants took part in the challenge. Cletus’ team secured 2nd place for their idea, which they called “WaTech Sensors”.

The problem identified by the team was drinking water being contaminated by physical, chemical, biological and radiological substances between distribution and consumption. This results in diseases such as diarrhea, cholera, dysentery & typhoid.

WaTech’s solution comprised a sensor that acts as an IOT device (Internet Of Things) that transmits measured water quality parameters such as hardness, pH, color & turbidity from various distribution networks. This data is then aggregated and processed against standard drinking water guidelines in a cloud framework. The processed data can then be viewed at the point of water consumption by scanning a QR code.

In this way, WaTech’s idea keeps the community informed about water quality in real time, at water fountains, restaurants and other public locations. No matter where you are, WaTech sensors allow you to consume water with confidence. Good work, Cletus!

The accompanying image shows a few of Jord Malaysia’s workshop crew, celebrating the successful Factory Acceptance Test of gas compressor air cooled heat exchangers. The air coolers are to be delivered to a XTO (Exxon) gas field in the Permean Basin of New Mexico. COVID prevented our American friends witnessing the test in Malaysia. However, they were on-hand over Zoom and together with 3rd Party Inspectors, signed off successful completion of all required test work. There were 15 air cooler bays in total. Three of them can be seen in the background of the photo. The air cooler train was way too big to undertake this work under roof in Jord’s workshop. So cranes were hired in to assemble and test the train in a holding bay outside the workshop.