Per-MW pricing, regional variance, and cost drivers for owners scoping hyperscale & AI builds.
Salary benchmarks across the 14 mission-critical disciplines.
MGH’s 1.05-million-square-foot Ragon Building rising on Cambridge Street, a roughly $1.7 billion Dana-Farber cancer hospital starting in the Longwood Medical Area, and Eversource’s $1.8 billion underground substation program beneath Kendall Square. iRecruit.co’s construction recruiters in Boston place the project managers, superintendents, MEP and commissioning leaders, and executives who deliver that work — from project engineer to executive.
Greater Boston’s mission-critical construction is carried by hospitals and the grid right now. Mass General’s Ragon Building — 1.05 million square feet and 482 private rooms on Cambridge Street — runs phased construction toward a 2027 first-tower opening, and Dana-Farber’s roughly $1.7 billion, 300-bed cancer hospital with Beth Israel Deaconess began site work in the Longwood Medical Area in 2026 on a run to 2031. Beneath Kendall Square, Eversource is building the country’s largest underground substation — a $1.8 billion program threading eight new 115kV transmission lines through Cambridge, Somerville, and Boston into the next decade.
Life sciences is a different story, and hiring teams here already know it: with more than a third of the metro’s lab inventory available, speculative lab development has stopped, and the projects still moving are committed owner-occupier builds — Biogen’s Kendall Square headquarters, AstraZeneca and Takeda deliveries in East Cambridge. That concentrates demand instead of spreading it: hospital and substation programs need MEP-dense, multi-year delivery teams, defense manufacturing keeps growing quietly in the metro orbit with Raytheon’s Andover radar-production expansion, and everyone is drawing from the same credentialed bench.
iRecruit.co recruits Greater Boston from a standing New England bench, not a cold start — candidates verified against delivered projects and credentials before you meet them, compensation guidance calibrated to what Boston programs are actually paying, and qualified shortlists in 3–7 business days. Where the right leader is not local, we run the traveler and relocation math — per diem, rotation, uplift — so an out-of-market hire holds.
iRecruit.co’s national sector practices all run active searches in Greater Boston — these are the five working hardest right now.
MGH’s Ragon Building and Dana-Farber’s new cancer hospital anchor a decade of MEP-dense institutional work across the metro’s medical districts.
The deepest lab-construction talent base in the country — concentrated now on committed pharma builds like Biogen’s Kendall Square headquarters.
Eversource’s $1.8B Greater Cambridge Energy Program — the nation’s largest underground substation — runs into the 2030s.
The parent practice behind this page — hospitals, labs, and the facilities that cannot fail, staffed from one shared national bench.
Raytheon’s Andover production expansion and the southern New Hampshire microelectronics cluster — a quiet growth pocket in the metro orbit.
Every pill links to a dedicated hiring page. The span is deliberate — iRecruit.co places from project engineer to executive, usually as a coordinated set of roles on the same program.
Four models, each priced per solution — and most clients in Greater Boston end up running two in parallel.
Success-fee search for managers through directors — full sourcing depth, and you pay only on placement.
Pricing — 20% success fee, paid on placement
One team, one process, every open req — built for program ramps and multi-site hiring.
Pricing — from $15k service fee, with volume-based placement pricing
A dedicated recruiter working inside your systems and standups, scaled to monthly hiring volume.
Pricing — monthly volume-based fee + success fee
Retained search for the leaders a program depends on — confidential, calibrated, and guaranteed.
Pricing — retained, 30% of first-year compensation
Comparing firms? See how iRecruit.co’s model compares with a traditional construction staffing agency — and when each one fits.
The best construction recruiters in Boston are concentrated in what Greater Boston actually builds — hospitals, labs, and the grid infrastructure underneath them — not a generalist desk with a Massachusetts folder. If you are searching “construction recruiters near me” from Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, or Waltham, weigh three things: sector depth in mission-critical work, reach into candidates who are not applying to anything, and verification you can audit — delivered projects, credentials, and references who watched the work. iRecruit.co runs a dedicated Greater Boston practice on exactly that basis, from project engineer to executive.
Fees follow the engagement model, not the metro. Direct-hire search runs at a 20% success fee, paid only on placement. Retained executive search — VPs, project executives, directors — runs at 30% of first-year compensation with a replacement guarantee. RPO starts from a $15k service fee with volume-based placement pricing, and embedded recruiting runs on a monthly volume-based fee plus a success fee at a reduced rate. A 30-minute scoping call gets you a per-role quote for your Boston openings within 48 hours.
Yes. Boston is one metro practice inside a national platform — iRecruit.co places across New England, including Worcester, Providence, and southern New Hampshire’s defense-manufacturing corridor, and in every major U.S. construction market. The reach matters locally, too: many of the strongest candidates for Boston’s institutional programs are travelers or relocators, and we structure per diem, rotation, and relocation packages that make an out-of-market hire hold.
Tell us the roles, the program, and the dates. We come back within 48 hours with a concrete plan — and a shortlist of verified New England candidates in 3–7 business days.
