Hire Construction Engineers

Time to shortlist is typically 2 weeks from scoping call. Total time to placement (shortlist through offer acceptance) is typically 3–4 weeks. Seats that require a PE, an active clearance, or relocation to a remote industrial site can run a week longer.

Most US Construction Engineers on industrial and mission-critical builds land between $90K and $130K base depending on metro, project scale, and engineering scope. Senior Construction Engineers carrying PE sign-off on temporary works or lifts for fab, gigafactory, or hyperscale programs typically run $130K–$170K, plus per diem on travel assignments. These are market bands; we confirm live market bands during scoping. See our construction engineer salary guide for the wider market.

The Project Engineer runs the project’s paper: document control, RFI and submittal logs, meeting minutes, change orders, subcontractor coordination. The Construction Engineer owns the engineering inside the build: constructability, means and methods, temporary works, lift plans, and RFIs that carry a solution with calcs. On smaller projects one person wears both hats; on industrial and mission-critical builds they are separate seats, and the Construction Engineer often has a PE or EIT and reports to the project executive or a chief engineer.

A Field Engineer is the boots seat — layout, quantities, daily field RFIs, supporting the Superintendent. The Construction Engineer sits a level up in engineering depth: designing the temporary works the Field Engineer lays out, engineering the lift the crew executes, and resolving the conflict the field RFI surfaced. Many strong Construction Engineers started as Field Engineers.

Not by default. A PE is required where the seat stamps temporary works, lift plans, or shoring designs, and we filter for it in the right state when that is the case. Otherwise, reference-verified authorship of constructability reviews, temporary works, and engineered RFIs outweighs the license, and many strong candidates are EIT-track engineers with 4–8 years on industrial builds. See our construction certifications guide for how each credential maps to the role.

Yes. Defense manufacturing, MILCON, and launch and test programs add badge-and-escort rules, energetics and cryogenic setbacks, and range-safety interface to means-and-methods engineering. We confirm clearance eligibility or active status during scoping and shortlist only candidates who can start on your timeline.

Yes. Every Construction Engineer placement carries a replacement guarantee. Guarantee terms are confirmed in writing at engagement start.

Yes. Multi-hire builds (Construction Engineers plus Project Engineers, Field Engineers, and a Construction Project Manager across a program) route through embedded recruiting or RPO. Common for GCs and owners standing up a mission-critical or industrial vertical.