About Jon Jacobsmeyer, PE

Jon Jacobsmeyer of St. Louis, senior vice president of operations for McCarthy Building Companies, earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Missouri S&T in 1988. He began his professional career in project management roles at J.S. Alberici Construction Co. and Oscar J. Boldt Construction Co., then joined McCarthy Building Companies as senior project manager in 2002. Jacobsmeyer has participated in over $8 billion in completed construction projects across the U.S., including the $1 billion National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility Animal Disease Laboratory in Manhattan, Kansas; the $1.7 billion replacement campus for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s St. Louis facilities; the $1 billion Veterans Affairs Medical Center Replacement Hospital in New Orleans; and the $113 million Cornell University Physical Sciences Building in Ithaca, New York, which features some of the most noise-free, shielded, vibration-proof facilities in the world. Jacobsmeyer is an active leader of McCarthy’s internal “mega projects” team, which focuses on sharing best practices and lessons learned on large projects across the nation. And he regularly partners with the company’s National Learning and Development team to share his experience during management and leadership development programs. A member of McCarthy’s Central Region Leadership Team, Jacobsmeyer helps guide the region’s strategy and project operations and oversees the in-house scheduling and MEP departments.