A specialist engineering recruitment agency working across Calgary’s fast-changing technical market — energy transition, a genuinely large software and fintech sector, and the head-office engineering leadership that sits above operating assets across the province. We approach people directly, because most of the people worth hiring here are not on the market.
Calgary has quietly become one of North America’s fastest-growing tech job markets, and a striking share of that growth is energy engineers moving into software and fintech roles rather than new graduates arriving from outside. Head offices for the major energy producers still anchor senior engineering-management hiring even though the operating assets sit elsewhere in the province.
None of that has produced an old-fashioned oil-price hiring boom. Companies remain disciplined about headcount even in stronger price environments, so demand is concentrated in energy-transition roles — carbon capture, hydrogen — and in tech, not in a broad return to legacy expansion.
Calgary’s tech sector added tens of thousands of jobs in a few years while local post-secondary programs produced only a fraction as many graduates — most of the growth has been filled by people moving in from other provinces or countries, not trained locally. A search that assumes a deep local bench will come up short.
We are headquartered in London, Ontario, and we recruit into Alberta the way we recruit everywhere: mapping a market and approaching people directly, most of whom are already working and not applying anywhere. For engineering leadership and energy-transition specialists, that direct approach is close to the only way in.
We recruit construction and technology roles in Calgary the same way, whenever the mandate calls for it — this page focuses on engineering because that is where most of our Calgary search work sits.
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Yes. We recruit engineering, construction and technology professionals across Alberta, including Calgary and southern Alberta. We are an engineering recruitment agency covering Canada and the USA, headquartered in London, Ontario.
Software and fintech engineers, carbon-capture and hydrogen specialists, and senior process or petroleum engineers for head-office roles are the hardest to fill — largely because local training programs cannot keep pace with demand.
No. We are headquartered in London, Ontario and recruit nationally. For senior and specialist roles that rarely matters, because the work is direct approach rather than local advertising — and a national view of compensation is usually more useful to an employer than a local address.
Calgary salaries for senior engineering and tech roles have moved up quickly and now compete credibly with Toronto and Vancouver for equivalent seniority, particularly in software and energy transition.
Yes. Confidential searches — replacing someone still in post, or building a role you cannot advertise — are handled through retained executive search, where nothing about the mandate is visible in the market.
We are a specialist search firm, and “engineering headhunters” is the older word for the same work. We do not post roles or forward applicants; we map a market and approach people directly, most of whom are not looking. Permanent placement is the only work we do.
A conversation about the Calgary hire ahead of you — local, relocating, or remote, and what each route realistically costs.