PHM recruits the civil and infrastructure engineers who design and deliver the built environment — from consulting and construction through municipal and land development. Specialist, sector-fluent search for the people whose work has to stand up, on an exclusive, fee-on-hire basis.
Ontario changed who counts as licensable. The Canadian-experience requirement came off in May 2023, and since July 2026 the minimum experience for a P.Eng. is two years rather than four — though PEO is clear that most applicants still need three or four to clear all thirty-four competencies. A job posting that asks for four years to licence, or for Canadian experience, is screening against rules that no longer exist.
A vacant project engineer seat does not stop a project. It moves the work onto a principal who is already at capacity, and the first thing to slip is the quality review nobody sees until it is a change order.
Keeping up with what each regulator actually requires is part of our job, not our client’s. Our civil engineering recruiters work with people who are employed and not applying, assessed against the scope someone has carried rather than the boxes a posting asks them to tick.
Genuine depth across the civil and infrastructure engineering disciplines — we understand the roles and the work they answer for, not just the titles. A sample of the work and the projects we recruit for:
Recruiting for building structures, envelope or restoration? That work sits with our structural engineering team — a different market, and largely different employers.
Levels from junior and intermediate engineers through senior and principal engineers, discipline leads, project and practice managers, and directors & VPs of engineering.
Retained-level rigour, on an exclusive basis, for a fee paid on the hire — no upfront retainer and the delivery risk on us. We also work standard contingency where a role suits it. How we engage →
Because we don’t run volume, an exclusive civil mandate gets our full bandwidth — and we’re driven to deliver in less time than industry norms.
Design and project delivery for civil and infrastructure practices — transportation, water, municipal, and land development teams.
Heavy civil and infrastructure build — roads, bridges, municipal works, and the project leadership that delivers them.
Public-sector infrastructure and private land development — planning, servicing, subdivisions, and approvals.
The specialties and levels are listed above. We recruit them for consultancies, owners, contractors and industrial employers across Canada and the USA.
Yes — all three. We place civil and infrastructure talent across engineering consulting, heavy-civil and infrastructure construction, and municipal and land development.
Exclusive contingency. Nothing is invoiced until someone is hired, which puts the delivery risk on us rather than on the company that already has the problem.
Yes. We provide real-time compensation insight for the specific role, region, and seniority you’re hiring for — so an offer is competitive without overpaying.
Across Canada and the United States. We’re headquartered in London, Ontario, Canada and work on-site where it counts and remote-fluent by design.
Often not. Many of the strongest civil and infrastructure roles are filled discreetly, through direct search — opened quietly and closed quietly, invisible from the open market.
An advisory conversation about the civil hire ahead of you — and where the right person is likely to come from. Not a commitment.