Military Construction Recruiters

A military construction recruiter sources, qualifies, and places the construction talent that delivers MILCON and federal programs — project managers, superintendents, CQC quality managers, SSHOs, project controls and estimating leaders, and the executives above them. The difference between specialist military construction recruiters and a generalist agency is what gets verified: delivered federal scope by agency and contract vehicle, credential stacks like EM 385-1-1 and CQM-C, RMS/QCS fluency, and references who watched the candidate carry a program through a government quality audit. iRecruit.co recruits across the full span, project engineer to executive.

Fees follow the engagement model. Retained executive search — VPs of federal programs, project executives, directors — runs on a retained fee of 30% of first-year compensation, paid in stages, with a replacement guarantee. Success-fee recruiting support for project managers, superintendents, and engineers runs at a 20% success fee, paid only on placement, with no upfront fee on single roles. For program ramps, RPO runs from a $15k service fee plus volume pricing, and embedded recruiting runs on a monthly volume-based fee + success fee at a reduced rate. A 30-minute scoping call gets you a concrete, per-role quote within 48 hours.

It depends on the contract. Most MILCON work — barracks, hangars, roads, utilities — requires base access and badging but no clearance at all. Secure scopes like SCIF fit-out, certain RDT&E facilities, and some shipyard work carry position-specific requirements set by the government contract, ranging from a favorable background investigation to an active Secret clearance. Where a position lawfully requires it, we verify a candidate’s existing clearance level and investigation currency, or screen for the eligibility the contract specifies — and where it doesn’t, we don’t filter on it. That precision keeps qualified candidates moving and keeps hiring compliant.

EM 385-1-1 is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Safety and Health Requirements Manual — the safety standard that governs USACE and most NAVFAC construction contracts. It drives requirements a commercial safety program doesn’t have: a designated Site Safety and Health Officer with documented training hours, activity hazard analyses for every definable feature of work, and an accepted accident-prevention plan before mobilization. Hiring a safety manager without EM 385-1-1 experience onto a federal job means paying them to learn it on the government’s clock; we verify the hours, the AHAs, and the audit history before a resume reaches you.

Contract-system fluency. Federal delivery runs on systems commercial work never touches: RMS/QCS for daily reporting and pay estimates, three-phase CQC — preparatory, initial, follow-up — submittal registers with government review clocks, Davis-Bacon certified payroll, and modification and REA discipline when conditions change. A superintendent or PM who has carried those systems on a delivered federal contract is productive in week one. We screen for the systems, the agencies, and the delivered dollar values — not keyword matches.

Yes — SCIF and ICD 705 fit-out is a core scope of the practice. The practice screens for superintendents, PMs, and QC leads who have delivered accredited spaces — RF shielding, acoustic isolation, access-control detailing, and the documentation trail accreditation depends on — plus the cleared or clearance-eligible field leadership that restricted sites require. If your portfolio spans data centers and defense programs, this practice and our mission-critical construction practice share one bench.