Jamey Ford manages a team of 17, from eight nationalities. Jamey Ford manages a team of 17, from eight nationalities.

How big is your team?
I have a team of 17 colleagues from eight different nationalities.

How would you like your team to describe you?
I would like for them to regard me as a very open and positive engineer who understands and is always open to new suggestions and initiatives. Hopefully the best boss in the property!

Tell us the one thing your team doesn’t know about you.
That I can say this: “Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch” (A famous place in Wales, UK, with an incredibly hard name to pronounce.)

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My Best & Worst

  • My best piece of advice is to be positive in all that you do.
  • My best hotel stay has to be Kloofzicht Lodge & Spa near Pretoria in South Africa where I stayed for my younger brother’s wedding in 2009. It was a beautiful setting and was a great venue.
  • My best meal was at my previous property at InterContinental Mauritius in their speciality Oriental restaurant – the Thai red shrimp curry is stunning.
  • My worst boss was when I was an apprentice back in the UK and had a senior engineer who was not a good leader and could only shout when communicating — not very inspiring!
  • My biggest engineering nightmare is seeing industrial injuries and I saw a few in my time when I was an apprentice in the power industry. It’s definitely the worst part of engineering for me.
  • My worst mistake was when I was a commissioning engineer working with Bentley Motor Cars in the UK. I was setting up new R&D test cell for a new engine type, but I blew an engine whilst running some diagnostics. It was quite an embarrassing experience.