Jacobs Solutions Inc. operates as a global professional services company. The company designs and deploys technology-centric solutions to solve many of the world’s most complex challenges.
With a team of approximately 45,000, the company provides end-to-end services in advanced manufacturing, cities and places, energy, environmental, life sciences, transportation and water. From advisory and consulting, feasibility, planning, design, program and lifecycle management, it is creating a more conne...
Jacobs Solutions Inc. operates as a global professional services company. The company designs and deploys technology-centric solutions to solve many of the world’s most complex challenges.
With a team of approximately 45,000, the company provides end-to-end services in advanced manufacturing, cities and places, energy, environmental, life sciences, transportation and water. From advisory and consulting, feasibility, planning, design, program and lifecycle management, it is creating a more connected and sustainable world.
Whether tackling water scarcity, aging infrastructure, access to life-saving therapies or sophisticated cyberattacks, the company takes on some of the world’s biggest challenges, bringing a different way of thinking to everything it does.
Over the last eight years, Jacobs has been on a transformation journey, starting with a re-emphasis on business excellence, the company’s culture and brand, and evolving its portfolio to become a science-based consulting and advisory solutions provider focused on delivering some of the world’s most complex sustainability, critical infrastructure and advanced manufacturing challenges. This transformation included acquiring a 65% stake in PA Consulting Group Limited (PA Consulting) in fiscal 2021. Acquisitions of BlackLynx and StreetLight further positioned the company as a leader in high-value critical infrastructure and technology-enabled solutions.
Boldly Moving Forward
In March 2022, Jacobs launched a three-year strategy, building on the company’s success over the preceding three years to take advantage of a new lens crafted from the incredible pace of change in the world and in its markets. The company focuses on broadening its leadership in high growth sectors aligned with long-term secular trends, such as infrastructure renewal and investment, and the global transition to more sustainable ways of living.
The company’s strategy is driven by its visionary purpose of creating a more connected, sustainable world. The company’s three growth accelerators — Climate Response, Consulting & Advisory and Data Solutions services — create connections between the global market trends, its client solutions and the company purpose. The company’s growth accelerators are delivering significant value for its clients, positioning Jacobs for growth while advancing sustainability and social value in its communities.
The company’s Climate Response accelerator focuses on the end-to-end solutions it co-creates with clients in energy transition, decarbonization, adaptation and resilience, and regenerative and nature-based climate solutions. The company’s clients are facing a rapidly changing world - navigating multifaceted challenges, such as the increasing pace of technological change, budget and supply chain limitations, global climate change events and complex geopolitical conditions. Through its Consulting & Advisory capabilities, it deepens its involvement with its clients to help them conceptualize, shape and realize their future.
The company’s Data Solutions accelerator harnesses its data and digital capabilities, products and tools to help its clients operate more efficiently in a safe environment and capitalize on their data more than ever before. The company invests in technology-enhanced and AI solutions to help clients find better, safer and more agile ways of working. The company provides solutions in data analytics and insights, digital architecture, advisory and transformation, software development and cybersecurity and operational technology.
Segments
The services Jacobs provides to end markets fall into the following two operating segments: Infrastructure & Advanced Facilities and its investment in PA Consulting Group Limited (PA Consulting).
Infrastructure & Advanced Facilities (I&AF)
In 2024, Jacobs' Infrastructure & Advanced Facilities line of business provided end-to-end solutions for the company’s clients’ most complex challenges related to climate change, energy transition, connected mobility, buildings and infrastructure, integrated water management and biopharmaceutical manufacturing. In doing so, the company combines deep experience in the following end-markets - Critical Infrastructure, Water & Environmental and Life Sciences & Advanced Manufacturing.
The company’s clients include national, state and local governments in the U.S., Europe, the U.K., Middle East, and Asia Pacific, and multinational and local private sector clients throughout the world.
PA Consulting (PA)
Jacobs invested in a 65% stake in PA Consulting in March 2021, the company that is bringing ingenuity to life. PA Consulting accelerates new growth ideas from concept, through design and development and to commercial success, and revitalizes organizations, building leadership, culture, systems and processes to make innovation a reality. PA Consulting's global team of approximately 4,000, which includes strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers and technologists work across seven sectors: consumer and manufacturing, defense and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government, health and life sciences, and transport to make a positive impact alongside the clients it supports, bringing ingenuity to life.
PA Consulting has a diverse mix of private and public sector clients. Private sector clients include global household names like Unilever, and start-ups like PulPac, which converts plant fibers into sustainable packaging to reduce single-use plastic. From sustainable airports with Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and enhanced home security with ADT, to resilient banking with Bankomat, pioneering medtech with Hubly Surgical, and accelerating the energy transition with Invenergy and energyRe. Public sector clients include the U.K.'s Ministry of Defence, Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration, and Danish Tax Agency.
In a fast-moving, complex world, the company is deploying the collective strengths of Jacobs and PA Consulting to create significant opportunities for its clients. Alongside Copenhagen Metro – one of the most advanced public transport systems in Europe – the company is providing strategic management and technical services to support its operations and maintenance. The company is also supporting the Frederick Douglass Tunnel program, one of the largest national transportation infrastructure investments in the U.S. Drawing on its extensive experience with Louisiana’s critical state infrastructure, the company is developing a comprehensive offshore wind roadmap for the Louisiana Department of Energy and Natural Resources, U.S. that aims to promote the state’s energy independence, diversification and security while developing its workforce and local economy. Supporting the U.K.’s decarbonization and energy security future, the company is delivering technical project management support to the U.K. Department for Energy Security & Net Zero’s Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage program, an essential element of the U.K.’s commitment to deliver a net-zero economy by 2050.
Discontinued Operations
Separation of Critical Mission Solutions (CMS) and Cyber & Intelligence (C&I) Businesses
On September 27, 2024, Jacobs completed the previously announced Reverse Morris Trust transaction pursuant to which Jacobs first transferred its CMS and portions of its DVS business to Amazon Holdco Inc., a Delaware corporation (SpinCo), which has since been renamed Amentum Holdings, Inc.
Competition
AECOM, Tetra Tech, WSP, Arcadis, Bechtel, Arup, Mott MacDonald, Stantec, Parsons, Accenture, Schneider Electric, Mace, AtkinsRealis, Altair, Montrose, Capgemini, Fluor, IBM, Infosys, Deloitte, KPMG, PwC, Bain & Company, BCG and McKinsey & Company are some of the company’s competitors.
History
Jacobs Solutions Inc. was founded in 1947. The company was incorporated as a Delaware corporation in 1987.