PHM recruits the structural engineers who make buildings stand up and perform — design and detailing, envelope and building science, restoration and condition assessment — across consulting, construction, and development. Specialist search on an exclusive, fee-on-hire basis.
Canada reissued its national building code in December 2025, and for the first time the design data looks forward at the climate rather than back at the record. Ontario now allows mass timber to 18 storeys. Your bench is split between engineers who have worked under the new rules and engineers who have not, and both groups will list the same projects and the same software.
A structural hire who is qualified but not current does not fail visibly. It shows up as load cases run the way the previous edition ran them, conservative sizing that adds tonnage nobody costs, slow turnarounds, and a client who moves the next project elsewhere.
Keeping up with how the standards move is part of our job, not our client’s. Our structural engineering recruiters ask which code someone has actually designed to, and what they had to defend when a reviewer pushed back — not what software is listed under skills.
Genuine depth across the structural and buildings 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 bridges, culverts or heavy-civil structures? That work sits with our civil engineering team — same designation, different market.
Levels from EITs and intermediate engineers through senior and principal structural engineers, discipline leads, project managers, and directors 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 structural mandate gets our full bandwidth — and we’re driven to deliver in less time than industry norms.
Structural and building-services design for buildings of every type — from high-rise to institutional and industrial.
Structural and site delivery for high-rise, ICI, and residential build, including developer builders.
Restoration, condition assessment, envelope, and capital projects for existing building assets.
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 structural and buildings talent across engineering consulting, construction and development, and building owners & facilities, with genuine understanding of how the roles differ.
Exclusive contingency. You get the reach and rigour of a retained search, invoiced only when you hire — so an unsuccessful search costs us, not you.
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 structural and buildings roles are filled discreetly, through direct search — filled before a posting exists, often before the role is announced internally.
An advisory conversation about the structural hire ahead of you — and where the right person is likely to come from. Not a commitment.