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Engineering Recruitment Services & Solutions Canada | Engineering Recruitment Consultants | PHM Search

Recruiting the impossible

With today’s changing climate, engineering and construction recruitment services may, perhaps, have taken a back seat. However, for some companies (perhaps your competition), this could be an opportunity to reorganize and captivate sought-after candidates that are now more open to change. Others continue to offer flexible and hybrid work formats to mitigate both current and future market uncertainties.

Whatever your situation, PHM Search has encountered over two decades of change. Our experience with adversity can help to uncover an engineering or construction recruitment solution tailored to your dynamic needs.

As engineering and construction recruitment consultants, we have come to know that clients like you share the following common concerns when working with recruiters:

  • Recruiters don’t know what you do or what you’re looking for
  • Agencies misrepresent or submit subpar candidates
  • They are too slow or don’t deliver at all
  • Some send the same candidates you already received
  • Delayed feedback, service, or communications

With nearly two thousand successful placements to date and a client retention rate over 95%, we’d like to think that working with our firm means reducing your recruitment stress, not escalating it.

As we are both a contingency and retained search firm specializing in your engineering recruitment, you can be confident that we have the domain knowledge and hustle to fulfill any engineering search requested.

Client Benefits

  • Client Discovery Call – an interactive assessment to build your recruitment blueprint and how we will execute it
  • Industry – knowledge of your specific industry, sector, and specializations
  • Time Savings – typical shortlist of ideal candidates within 1-2 weeks
  • Costs – delivering a quality candidate quickly saves you money
  • Value – time and cost savings with a quality candidate will increase ROI
  • Service – feedback pledge to get back to you in minutes, not days
  • System – proprietary Talent Engagement System (TES™) deployed with every search and access to a database of over 150,000+ vetted candidates
  • Advice – tips, strategies, and compensation updates to help you with ongoing recruitment topics

If you’re open to exploring our differentiators, please contact us.

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We Get Engineering Recruitment

As an engineering and construction recruitment firm, PHM Search has completed searches for various industries seeking a specialized agency that knows or "gets" engineering and construction. Our domain expertise, focus, and credibility have allowed us to attract and earn relationships with some of the brightest and sought-after engineering and construction talent within their respective fields. We are driven by what you do, how, and why you are in business. This ultimately translates to what talent you want and how best to recruit them.

Technical or not we believe that engineering and construction recruitment will always be a people business first and foremost. Our proprietary Talent Engagement System (TES) continually mines, analyzes, and predicts data so that we're able to make highly qualified matches with your talent pool.  This results in uncovering more than 90% of the available engineers and construction talent within your industry or niche, where traditional recruitment uncovers 30%-50%.

It takes time, patience, and a direct purpose to amass knowledge about the industries that our clients and candidates work in. For over two decades PHM has taken great strides to acquire specific subject matter and expertise about the clients we serve and the candidates you want to recruit.

Our investment in our candidate relationships means we provide our clients with insight about the engineers and construction candidates we work with that goes far beyond just a resume or a profile.

Below are some the industries we recruit for:

Engineering Consulting | Construction |Technology | Advanced Manufacturing | Real Estate Development | Facility Management | Oil and Gas | Mining and Metals | Industrial | Power and Utilities

To experience how we make it easier to get technical talent, call: 1-877-562-4364, email: clients@phmsearch.com or register as a client and one of our Talent Consultants will be happy to help.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • What industries or technical sectors do we specialize in?

    Simply put, we recruit engineers or related technical professionals. The industries we primarily specialize in are as follows:

    • Engineering Consulting or Design
    • Construction
    • Technology (IT, Cloud, Network, DevOps, Data Science, Analytics, AI/ML, BI)
    • Architecture
    • Facility Management or Operations
    • Real Estate Development
    • Advanced Manufacturing and Industrials
    • Oil, Gas and Mining
    • Energy, Power and Utilities
    Within each industry or vertical, we are capable of recruiting for any role assigned by our clients. Although engineers or engineering roles are what we specialize in, we will undertake any role with a client requested.

  • What engineering and construction jobs do you recruit for?

    Since many engineering jobs are complex and varied, we understand that clients are uncertain if not a little skeptical whether we really know what you’re recruiting for. In terms of organizational levels, we have successfully searched for roles from entry to C-level positions for both private and public organizations. We’ve been recruiting engineers and related professionals for nearly 20+ years and have earned relationships with over 100,000 real candidates within the verticals we specialize in. We are determined to get to know and treat each client as a partner. As such, we are able to best understand your specific tangible and intangible needs for each recruitment assignment we are tasked with, regardless of the role or function. To see the various specialties or positions we recruit for, visit our Find a Job page and browse our roles by industry.

  • How long does it take you to recruit?

    On average our recruitment cycle from start to extending an offer to a candidate is 2-4 weeks. There are multiple factors that weigh into this timeline including, but not limited to:

    • Degree of search difficulty
    • Location
    • Size of talent pool or pipeline
    • Client feedback and turn around
    • Market demand and supply
    • Compensation
    • Start dates
    • Scheduling issues.

  • How many engineering and construction jobs do your recruiters work on?

    Our recruiters are assigned on average four (4) requisitions at a time. This assures that we can adequately spend the time and resources necessary to deliver for our clients.

  • What is your recruitment process?

    1. Client and Job Intake session with assigned Client Manager or Team Leader
    2. Deploy our Talent Engagement System (TEM) to source, scour, research, and build a qualified pipeline of ideal Candidates or “targets”
    3. Pique interest, screen, qualify, align fit and affinity, and recruit candidate(s) for presentation
    4. Guide Candidate(s) and Client through pre and post interviews to mitigate fit and decide on next steps
    5. Conduct references, negotiate offers, diffuse counter offers, and acquire acceptance
    6. Pre and post onboarding of candidate and ongoing candidate and client follow-ups to address early performance or conduct issues

  • Why work with you?

    We make recruiting “look” simple. But anyone who knows anything about recruitment knows it’s never easy. At PHM, we aim to take away the stress, hassle and difficulty typically associated with recruitment for our clients. Our goal is to make an impossible recruitment mission a successful journey for all parties involved. We are a specialized engineering search firm that marries the dedication of a retained agency with a contingency pay-for-performance strategy. As such, we assure that we earn your fees and allow you to gauge the quality, value, and our service ahead of this commitment. We won’t ever take a search assignment that we don’t feel confident and capable of effectively working on and successfully filling. Your time is our time and money. See Our Values and Our Why to give you an overview of our guiding principles.

  • What other engineering and construction recruitment services do you offer?

    Although Direct Hire or Permanent Contingency recruitment is at the core of services, we can tailor our offerings to the individual needs of our clients and can consist of any of the following:

    • Retained or Exclusive
    • Contract or Temporary Recruitment
    • Recruitment as a Service (RAAS): On-demand, virtual (in-house), hourly, project-based, Talent sourcing and mapping, screening and profiles
    • Compensation Analysis
    • Competitor Intelligence
    • Recruitment Consultation/Training/Implementation
    • Succession Planning

PHM works closely with us to recruit the qualified professionals we seek for our Engineering Consulting firm. We have found PHM to be responsive, knowledgeable, professional and able to find candidates who are often a "cut above" those that are offered by other recruiters.  They seem to understand the types of people we recruit better than most and deliver results with high quality and speed.  I'm glad to have such a trusting search partner.


Vice President EngineeringEngineering Consulting Firm