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Jabal Ali freezone in Dubai. The company has also grown substantially in South America- particularly in Brazil.
“ We have around 80 people there now,” Andrew adds.“ We have a large product range in that part of the world and we’ re looking to increase it even further. We also have quite a few projects earmarked for West Africa next year.”
The company has rapidly expanded, doubling its revenue from £ 68 million to £ 137 million and increasing its workforce from 373 to over 800 employees in just two years. Andrew highlights the importance of company initiatives, such as learning and development.“ We provide a lot of training and many of our key positions are internal promotions over time. We sponsor MBAs and various master’ s degrees, which allow people to move through the organization into higher roles.
“ We also try to promote an active social life for most of the sites, such as the Think
Safe initiative and company events. Recently, we ran a significant health and safety event off-site which focused on behavioral safety and included some excellent guest speakers.”
Regarding the use of AI, he continues:“ A lot of what we do is highly engineered, so it requires people. While it’ s early days for us, activities such as contract reviews can use AI to analyze standard terms and conditions and identify certain contract clauses that may need to be modified.”
Looking ahead, Andrew shares that AIS’ future is predominantly about growth.“ There are some areas we don’ t have much presence in, so we want to build out Australasia,” he concludes.“ Ultimately though, our aim is to become an ASX 300 company in five years’ time, through acquisition and organic growth.” ■
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