10 Jacobs process engineering leaders
Director of Process for Life Sciences in North America, Director of Process Technology, BioPharma Process Director and Process Department Manager are among the titles held today by these Jacobs process engineering leaders. A reader can learn how process engineering leaders work at Jacobs from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
Alex D Hernández Soto, PE
LinkedInExperience: Process Engineering Senior Manager for LSNA · Jacobs
Alex D Hernández Soto has been Process Engineering Senior Manager for LSNA at Jacobs since March 2026, based in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. Alex D Hernández Soto was Process Department Manager at Jacobs from May 2025 to March 2026 and Process Group Leader there from 2020 to 2025.
Amarnath Thulasiraman CEng, MIChemE
LinkedInExperience: Associate Director - Process Engineering / HOD Process · Jacobs
Amarnath Thulasiraman has been Associate Director - Process Engineering / HOD Process at Jacobs since March 2025, based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Amarnath Thulasiraman was Deputy General Manager at Larsen & Toubro from 2023 to 2025 and Senior Principal Process Engineer at Worley from 2018 to 2023.
Andrew Shiflett, PE
LinkedInExperience: Process Engineering Senior Manager - Life Science North America · Jacobs
Andrew Shiflett has been Process Engineering Senior Manager - Life Science North America at Jacobs since March 2026, based in Garner, North Carolina. Andrew Shiflett was Process Engineering Department Manager at Jacobs from 2023 to 2026, Lead Process Engineer / Section Lead there from 2022 to 2023 and Director (Interim) - Fermentation at Novo Nordisk from 2019 to 2020.
Elliot Adoff
LinkedInExperience: Manager Process Engineering/ Director of Technology · Jacobs
Elliot Adoff has been Manager Process Engineering/ Director of Technology at Jacobs since 1998, based in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, with a headline reading Director of Process Technology at Jacobs Engineering. Elliot Adoff was Principal Process Engineer at Fluor Corporation from 1990 to 1998 and lists skills in Pharma API and OSD.
Francis Zane
LinkedInExperience: Director of Process for Life Sciences in North America · Jacobs
Francis Zane has been Director of Process for Life Sciences in North America at Jacobs since January 2026 and Director of Process Engineering at Jacobs since May 2025, based in Philadelphia. Francis Zane also lists Process Engineering Department Manager at Jacobs, a row open since February 2006.
James Savage
LinkedInExperience: BioPharma Process Director · Jacobs
James Savage has been BioPharma Process Director at Jacobs since January 2017, based in Cincinnati, Ohio. James Savage was Senior Process Design Engineer at Jacobs from 1990 to 2016 and describes working on the process design of pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities.
Lori Coenen
LinkedInExperience: Process Department Manager · Jacobs
Lori Coenen has been Process Department Manager at Jacobs since November 2016, based in Kaukauna, Wisconsin, and also lists Sr. Process Engineer and Sr. Project Manager rows at Jacobs open since August 2012. Lori Coenen was Director Of Engineering at Catalytic Combustion Corporation from 2009 to 2012.
Mike Richardson
LinkedInExperience: Process Department Manager - Life Sciences · Jacobs
Mike Richardson has been Process Department Manager - Life Sciences at Jacobs since May 2018 and Principal Process Engineer at Jacobs since January 2024, based in Cary, North Carolina. Mike Richardson was Manager of Process Engineering and Technology at CH2M HILL Engineers, Inc. from 2012 to 2018 and Manager of Process Engineering at CH2M from 2000 to 2011.
Simona Cucco
LinkedInExperience: Director of Process in Jacobs Italy · Jacobs
Simona Cucco has been Director of Process in Jacobs Italy since January 2013, based in Italy. Simona Cucco describes holding senior process engineer and biopharma process manager roles in Jacobs Italy from 2001 and was a Process engineer at Amec Foster Wheeler from 1996 to 2001.
Thakur Rathi
LinkedInExperience: Director of Process Technology · Jacobs
Thakur Rathi has been Director of Process Technology at Jacobs since November 2020, based in Ireland. Thakur Rathi was Biotech Process SME/Technologist/Lead Engineer at Jacobs from 2006 to 2020 and General Manager/Head- Engineering at Shreya Biotech from 2005 to 2006.
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