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Live News • May 28
Jacobs Expands Melbourne Water Projects With Five-Year Greater Western Water Partnership Jacobs, in joint venture with Stantec, has been appointed engineering services partner for Greater Western Water’s five-year Infrastructure Planning and Delivery Program in Melbourne’s fastest growing western region.
The JV will handle planning, design and delivery of critical water infrastructure to support rapid population and commercial growth in the area.
This award extends Jacobs’ existing eight-year relationship with Greater Western Water and provides a multi-year project pipeline tied to water infrastructure work.
This new five-year mandate points to continued demand for Jacobs’ technical and project delivery capabilities in regulated water infrastructure, supported by a client relationship that already spans eight years.
Investors may want to monitor how effectively Jacobs converts this long-duration program into stable fee income and how execution risk, cost control and JV coordination with Stantec are managed over the life of the contract. Announcement • May 18
Jacobs Solutions Inc. Appoints Cheryl Lim as Chief Human Resources Officer, Effective May 18, 2026 Jacobs Solutions Inc. has appointed Cheryl Lim as chief human resources officer (CHRO), effective May 18, 2026. Lim will be based in Dallas, Texas, and will report directly to Chair and Chief Executive Officer Bob Pragada. Lim joins Jacobs with a distinguished career spanning more than two decades as a senior HR executive at some of the world's leading global organizations. Most recently, she served as CHRO and Section 16 Officer at Vertiv Holdings, a $10.2 billion business with approximately 34,000 employees worldwide. At Vertiv, Lim played a pivotal role during a period of strong company performance. With a focus on linking human resources initiatives to shareholder value and long-term business success, she transformed the global HR and talent function and helped build a high-performance culture by introducing new company behaviors and aligning total rewards with performance outcomes. Prior to Vertiv, Lim held the position of vice president of human resources at ITT Inc., supporting the Connect & Control Technologies business. She previously spent twenty years at Honeywell International, where she held a series of progressively senior HR leadership roles. Her Honeywell experience included serving as vice president of HR for Europe, the Middle East and Africa and high growth regions, overseeing 45 countries and supporting 35,000 employees. She also led human resources for Honeywell Corporate globally and drove large-scale, enterprise-wide transformation programs. In addition, she served as president of the Honeywell European Works Council. Throughout her career, Lim has built a strong reputation for delivering results through data-driven people strategies and strong teams. Her areas of expertise include global HR operations, mergers and acquisitions integration, talent development, executive compensation, succession planning, and labor and employee relations. Lim holds a Master of Business Administration from Pepperdine University and a Bachelor of Arts (Joint Honours) in German and management studies from the University of Leeds in the U.K. She is a dual citizen of the United States and the United Kingdom and is fluent in English and German.