A specialist engineering recruitment agency working across Vancouver and the Lower Mainland — structural and seismic, transportation, building services and construction leadership. We approach people directly, because the engineers worth hiring here are not the ones applying.
Vancouver hires against a different set of pressures. Seismic design obligations sit on almost every structural mandate, mass timber has created demand for engineers who have actually detailed one, and the Broadway extension is absorbing transportation and municipal civil engineers faster than the region produces them.
Layered on top is a housing and mixed-use pipeline that never fully cools, and a cluster of mining and resource head offices that quietly competes for the same technical people from a completely different direction.
For engineering recruiters in Vancouver the hardest part is rarely finding the engineer — it is that the engineer already knows what a move has to be worth, because housing cost decides it before the role does. A search that only reaches people willing to relocate comes up short.
We are headquartered in London, Ontario, and we recruit into British Columbia the way we recruit everywhere: mapping the market for a defined role and approaching people directly. For engineering leadership and scarce disciplines, reach matters more than a local address.
We recruit construction and technology roles in Vancouver the same way, whenever the mandate calls for it — this page focuses on engineering because that is where most of our Vancouver search work sits.
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Yes. We recruit engineering, construction and technology professionals across British Columbia, including Vancouver, Burnaby, Surrey and the wider Lower Mainland, as well as Victoria. We are an engineering recruitment agency covering Canada and the USA, headquartered in London, Ontario.
Structural engineers with seismic and mass-timber experience, transportation and municipal civil engineers feeding the transit program, and building services / MEP engineers on the residential and mixed-use pipeline. Environmental and permitting specialists are consistently short across the province.
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.
Base salaries in Vancouver typically sit above the national median but below Toronto for equivalent seniority, while housing costs are the highest in the country. That gap is the biggest obstacle in a relocation search, and why compensation structure has to be settled before anyone is approached.
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 Vancouver hire ahead of you — local, relocating, or remote, and what each route realistically costs.