A specialist engineering recruitment agency working across Edmonton and Alberta’s Industrial Heartland — process and chemical engineering for petrochemical and carbon capture, and civil, structural and construction management for a genuinely large infrastructure build. We approach people directly, because the people who run these plants and projects are rarely looking.
Alberta’s Industrial Heartland northeast of the city carries tens of billions of dollars in installed petrochemical capacity, with active carbon-capture and hydrogen projects layered on top — real, funded work, not announcements. At the same time, a multi-year LRT expansion and a planned standalone children’s hospital are driving one of the largest construction programs the city has run in a decade.
The catch is that Edmonton holds the physical assets while Calgary holds a disproportionate share of the head-office engineering jobs that manage them — a split employers and candidates both feel.
Calgary-based head offices for the major energy and petrochemical companies pull a disproportionate share of senior engineering and strategy postings away from Edmonton, even though the actual facilities sit in the Heartland. A search run only against local postings misses a real slice of the relevant talent pool.
We are headquartered in London, Ontario, and we recruit into Alberta the way we recruit everywhere: mapping a market and approaching people directly, including people who report to a Calgary head office but work the Edmonton asset. For process, construction and project leadership roles, that reach is the whole point.
We recruit construction and technology roles in Edmonton the same way, whenever the mandate calls for it — this page focuses on engineering because that is where most of our Edmonton search work sits.
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Yes. We recruit engineering, construction and technology professionals across Alberta, including Edmonton and Alberta’s Industrial Heartland. We are an engineering recruitment agency covering Canada and the USA, headquartered in London, Ontario.
Process and chemical engineers for petrochemical and carbon-capture work, and civil, structural and construction-management engineers for the LRT and hospital builds, are the hardest roles to fill right now.
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.
Edmonton salaries for process and construction engineering roles have kept pace with Calgary for equivalent seniority, though senior head-office postings still cluster in Calgary.
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.
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