With 20+ years of global leadership experience in industries including oil, gas, chemicals, aerospace, and infrastructure, Jacquelyn (Jackie) Schirmer has led multi-billion-dollar transformation initiatives including integrating two multi-billion-dollar companies. Her unique combination of engineering, construction, and operations, in both technical and P & L roles, has positioned her as an inspirational catalyst for change who challenges the status quo and leads teams through ambiguity to successful execution of company strategy. Jackie has a track record of leveraging her collaborative style to create vision and strategy for business growth, value optimization, and alignment of high performing leaders to achieve ambitious goals.
Jackie brings experience with P&L responsibility, strategy deployment, energy transition, operations, company transformation, and integration through mergers and acquisition for both publicly traded companies and private equity.
Currently President, Congruex Network Services scaling a private equity digital infrastructure organization, Jackie increased revenue by 159% in the first year and achieved 26.1% YOY margin expansion deploying engineering and construction teams for multiple fiber to the home contracts while developing the business and process playbooks for the organization.
Recently at Phillips 66/DCP Midstream, Jackie led multi-million-dollar capital projects and engineering functions including corporate engineering groups and maintenance/turn-around services, and the Integrated Collaboration Center (ICC), a centralized approach to optimizing P&L through gas control, non-regulated pipeline control, and scheduling/optimization across all systems and value streams for real time decisionmaking, automation, and a digitally enabled workforce. Jackie also developed the initial framework for DCP’s energy transition strategy and was assigned to lead a core team implementing lean manufacturing/agile/digital practices across the operation.
In her prior role as executive group director of global project delivery for Worley. Jackie led global transformation and oversaw project delivery functions, tools, processes, and systems, delivering consistent client experiences, best practices, and cost efficiencies across four lines of business and 57K+ people following the acquisition of Jacob’s Energy, Chemicals & Resources. Prior to the acquisition, she served as vice president and general manager for Jacobs’ Global Construction, a $0.5B business where she delivered 20%+ year over year growth.
Jackie started her career with over 20 years at AECOM serving in multiple roles leading to vice president of risk and operations, and business development. Throughout her career Jackie has consistently established business goals, actions, and metrics to drive culture changes, monitor and ensure performance, and deliver value.
Jackie is passionate about recruiting and keeping talent, especially women, in the industry. She has served on the engineering board of directors for both the University of Denver (currently the Industry Advisory Committee Chair for the Ritchie School of Engineering and Computer Science) and University of Alaska, Fairbanks and has been involved with multiple STEM organizations and outreach activities. Jackie is a member of the G100 Network, Society of Women Engineers, and American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
In her spare time, Jackie loves going on a good adventure in the mountains, flying small planes, and traveling with her family.