Directors

Jamie Turner

Technical & Finance Director

Jamie, or JT (he answers to other names too), is a keen sportsman playing and following football (another Spurs fan) and golf.  Although his best football playing days have been replaced with management and coaching of a youth football team, he has recently re-joined a golf club to work on his handicap as Jamie can be known to be “quite” competitive – the trophies from various staff sporting events on his office windowsill are a testament to that!

Jamie has been with SMD since, what feels like, the dawn of time (since 1994 to be exact)! Initially joining as a trainee draughtsperson whilst completing his civil engineering studies qualification part-time.  He has gone on to gain his Incorporated Engineer status with ICE and fulfilled a magnitude of different roles within the business including Design, Export, Commercial before his current role of Technical Director since 2008.  Working for SMD has seen Jamie travel internationally and contribute to many iconic projects at home and abroad – most notably The Shard, Terminal 5 at Heathrow, Ski Dubai along with numerous industry presentations during the launch of the JV business in India.

Jamie joins many others in the office as a regular fundraiser and has rode/run miles to raise money for MacMillan, The Brain Tumour Charity and most recently completed the London Landmark half marathon with his wife for Alzheimer’s Research UK, all charities which are close to his heart. This level of exercise is really just a coverup for his passion for craft beers that he developed during lockdown 2020 – he even built a bar at home. The bar now features a ‘wall-of-cans’ with over 450 different empty craft beer cans that Jamie has enjoyed since and you can often see him studying the supermarket beer isles uttering the words “got, got, need” just like back in his panini sticker collecting days!