Per-MW pricing, regional variance, and cost drivers for owners scoping hyperscale & AI builds.
Salary benchmarks across the 14 mission-critical disciplines.
HVAC recruiting at the leadership and engineering level — not residential service techs. iRecruit.co places the MEP managers, mechanical and electrical leads, controls engineers, and commissioning professionals who deliver the densest MEP scope in construction.
Most HVAC staffing agencies place service technicians and installers. This desk recruits the salaried MEP layer of mission-critical construction — where HVAC is a redundancy calculation, not a service call.
On a hyperscale data hall or a cleanroom, MEP is the build: the mechanical density, the electrical distribution, the controls that tie them together, and the commissioning that proves it all works. Hiring that layer through generalist HVAC recruitment channels is how energization dates slip.
iRecruit.co’s MEP desk recruits mechanical, electrical, and plumbing leadership as one coordinated practice — because that is how the work actually gets delivered — and verifies every candidate against the systems they claim to have handed over.
The network concentrates MEP managers, mechanical and electrical leads, and commissioning professionals with delivered mission-critical scope — the pool HVAC staffing agencies never touch.
Redundancy topologies, chiller sequencing, medium-voltage distribution, BAS integration, TAB and Cx — verified against delivered projects.
Direct hire at a published 20% success fee, retained leadership search, or embedded recruiting across a multi-role MEP ramp.
One coordinated desk across the three trades — each role links to its own hiring page.
Owns coordinated mechanical, electrical, and plumbing delivery on technical builds.
MEP department leadership — standards, bench, and delivery accountability across a portfolio.
Chiller plants, air handling, hydronics, and cleanroom airflow scope.
Medium-voltage distribution, switchgear, NFPA 70E programs, and EPMS scope.
MEP systems verification, functional performance testing, and TAB oversight.
BAS, PLC, and SCADA scope where building systems meet automation.
Search “hvac recruiting” and the results are built for a different problem: service techs, installers, residential crews. When what you actually need is the MEP manager for a 100MW campus or the mechanical lead for a GMP suite, that channel produces resumes that have never seen an integrated systems test.
This desk works the other pool — salaried MEP leadership with delivered mission-critical scope — and treats HVAC recruitment as an engineering search: credentials verified, delivered systems confirmed, references run against the actual project claimed.
30-minute call with a practice lead — we map the roles, credentials, and timeline, and quote a concrete proposal within 48 hours.
Director, VP, and senior technical leadership roles where confidentiality and time-to-fill discipline matter most. Qualified slate in 14–21 days.
Pricing — structured retainer + completion fee, with replacement guarantee
Contingent-style direct-hire recruiting for individual technical roles, backed by the same credential verification as our retained work.
Pricing — 20% success fee on placement, 90-day replacement credit
A dedicated recruiter or team operating inside your hiring workflow — built for sustained multi-role technical hiring across a program.
Pricing — monthly volume-based fee + success fee at a reduced rate
Entry through senior MEP compensation, and the mission-critical premium.
The power-monitoring scope MEP leadership owns on modern builds.
The electrical side of the MEP compensation picture, to $190k in mission-critical sectors.
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Fees follow the engagement model. Direct-hire recruiting support runs a 20% success fee on placement. Retained search for leadership roles is structured at 30% of first-year compensation with a published 45–75 day timeline. Embedded recruiting runs a monthly volume-based fee plus a success fee at a reduced rate. Every iRecruit.co placement carries a 90-day replacement credit.
No — and we say so rather than take the req. This desk recruits the salaried MEP leadership and engineering layer: MEP managers, mechanical and electrical leads, controls engineers, commissioning professionals. For hourly service-tech staffing, a volume trades firm is the right partner.
The MEP-densest programs in construction: data centers, semiconductor fabs, healthcare, life sciences and GMP, and energy infrastructure — one desk across all of them, because the talent pool is shared.
Searches run nationally — Northern Virginia, Phoenix, Dallas–Fort Worth, Atlanta, Columbus, and every major technical market — delivered by a national practice, so shortlists include relocation-ready MEP leadership rather than local availability only.
30-minute scoping call. We map the trades, the credential stack, and the timeline — and quote a concrete proposal within 48 hours.
Submit your resume to be matched to confidential MEP, mechanical, and electrical roles across the densest technical programs in construction.
