ISS Ireland celebrates employee achievements at GEMS Awards 2022

The event, which took place at the Sheraton Athlone Hotel this May 12^th, brought together over 150 ISS Ireland employees, representing Placemakers from key accounts, specialises services and support functions across Ireland. It also provided a warm welcome to our exalted guest, Leitrim senior hurley team player Zak Moradi, who was on hand to present awards to all GEM and Category winners.

Zak’s memoir, Life Begins in Leitrim, was published in 2022 and tells the remarkable story of his formative years in Iraq, leaving behind an oppressive regime and finding a new life – and phenomenal new career – in small-town Ireland. Moradi made his debut on the inter-county scene, joining the Leitrim senior team in 2010 and becoming a regular member of the starting fifteen. In his own words, Zak says he has “a Kurdish blood with an Irish heart”, speaking keenly on both his heritage and the home he has found as a migrant in Ireland.

 

The evening’s category winners included:

 

• Outstanding Contribution to ISS 2022 – Rachel Hynes, Business Unit Manager: As a long-running ISS employee – with only one year until her 20^th anniversary! – Rachel Hynes secured the Outstanding Contribution to ISS Award owing to her passion for the business, her customers and staff.
• ISS Diversity Hero of the Year 2022 – Julie Nicholson, ISS Key Account Manager: Candid about her own disabilities and supportive of ISS’s pillars of diversity (Gender; Pride; Abilities; Generations; and Race, Culture & Ethnicity), Julie has been an outstanding contributor to ISS’s Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging strategy in Ireland.
• ISS Safety Champion of the Year 2022 – Tamara Furlong, Site Administrator: For her passion and dedication, Tamara has taken her site from strength to strength and been a role model for ISS’s Get Safe, Work Safe and Speak Up behaviours.
• ISS Support Function of the Year 2022 – Elaine Wall, Health Safety and Quality Auditor: Elaine’s knowledge, guidance and practical approach to training our Placemakers has cemented our H&S Culture, processes and procedures perfectly.
• ISS Contract of the Year (Key Accounts) – Accepted by Sean Madden, Facilities and Workplace Manager: This key client account for a renowned lager brand has held an incredibly strong track record since beginning 5 years ago, with client revenues 36% ahead of budget as a result of our project revenue delivery.
• ISS Contract of the Year (Specialised Services) – Accepted by Inga Rimselyte, Operations ManagerThe contract, held with a World-renowned hotel chain, saw an operational delivery model, spearheaded by Senior Product Design Manager Mary O’Gorman, overcome the challenge of a fast-moving transitional period via a well-organised, engaged and considered operation delivery model.
• ISS Team of the Year – Accepted by Jason Doyle– The winning team, serving a customer in the pharmaceutical sector, oversaw an extensive relocation and consolidation project with consistently positive feedback while and a full service delivery implemented by 2023.
• ISS Manager of the Year 2022 – Alan Burke, Site Manager: Celebrating an astonishing 30 years with ISS, Alan is respected, appreciated and renowned by both clients and colleagues across multiple contacts; a well deserved award.
• ISS Placemaker of the Year 2022 – Bela Drotos, Head Barista, ISS Facility Services Ireland: A “fabulous employee with a cheerful attitude, a calm presence, and a can-do attitude” has endeared Bela to clients on-site at one of ISS’s busiest coffee shops, cementing him as an exemplary example of customer service.

 

This year’s awards were hosted by Peter Jordan, Key Account Manager at ISS Ireland. He said:

“It was my pleasure to MC and play my part in this year GEMs awards. It was a day filled with recognition, fun, respect, inspiration and ultimately amazing people.

 

Our Placemakers work in demanding environments, full of challenges and ever changing conditions so going the extra mile is not easy but yet these  remarkable individuals make it look easy on a daily basis. So I would like to take this opportunity to thanks our GEMs again.

 

Thank you for being you, Thank you for becoming what you want and thank you for being part of something bigger!”

 

Congratulations to all of the evening’s winners, and a thank you to the many ISS staff and shareholders that joined us for the event; we look forward to welcoming you all again next year!

 

ENDS

 

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About ISS World:

ISS, a leading workplace experience and facility management company, provides placemaking solutions that contribute to better business performance and makes life easier, more productive and enjoyable – delivered to high standards by people who care. ISS believes that people make places and places make people. From strategy through to operations, ISS partners with over 60,000 customers in 30+ countries to deliver places that work, think and give and is served by 471,056 employees who connect people and places every single day. In 2019, ISS earned DKK 78 billion in revenue. It is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.

For more information about ISS UK & Ireland, please contact:

ISS Ireland sales@ie.issworld.com

 

For media enquiries:

Ryan Scully, ISS UK&I Press Office: ryan.scully@uk.issworld.com | Tel: 07765 771 264

 

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