After a nearly eight-month search inside and outside the company, Jacobs Engineering Group went outside the construction industry to name a veteran manufacturing executive as its next president and CEO.
The California design-build and technology firm said July 13 that Steven J. Demetriou, chairman and CEO of Cleveland-based downstream aluminum producer Aleris Corp. will be its new chief, effective on Aug. 17. He has been in his current positions since 2004.