JACOB VOORHEES
Job Title: Associate Director, Commissioning – Technical Development
Company: DLB Associates Consulting Engineers PC
Location: Point Pleasant, N.J.
Age: 29
Years on the Job: 7
Interests: Going out to dinner with his wife and trying restaurants all around the Jersey Shore, spending time with their dog, and going kayaking and hiking
Jacob Voorhees first learned about the theory of electricity in a physics class at Stockton University. Fascinated by the topic, he switched his major from mathematics to physics and enrolled in a dual-degree, five-year program with three years of study at Stockton and two years at Rutgers University.
After graduating with honors with a bachelor’s degree in applied physics and electrical engineering, he landed a job at DLB as an electrical engineer, eager to learn.
“I have taken every opportunity to perform the best I possibly could at any type of work and project that I was presented with,” says Voorhees, who was born and raised in New Jersey at the Jersey Shore.
As the associate director, commissioning – technical development, he spends time in both the office and the field. For the past year, he has primarily performed work in the field in a training capacity to build the team’s technical knowledge and understanding on the many projects nationwide. He’s spent the last five years in the field leading projects and training others on data centers and developing internal standards and processes. He says his favorite part of his job is the constant learning experience.
“Every new project that I work on or new client that I work with, I get to see the inner workings of the largest tech companies in the world, how they operate, and what they value,” he says. “More importantly, I get to see how their data centers are designed and then use all this information to be innovative in how I approach problems.”
In his role, he is constantly doing research and looking at tools that can enhance the way his company operates and then discovering the best method for implementation. Case in point: One of the tools he developed in-house has saved the company hundreds of hours over the past year.
“Seeing the major success of what I developed makes me excited about how we can use technology and AI tools to enhance our operational efficiency” he says.
As he considers his future career path, he says one of his big long-term goals is to give people working within his department an accelerated path to success with lots of opportunities.
