Houston mixes commercial mechanical work with industrial, petrochemical, and medical-center demand, and pay behaves differently here because of the industrial premium and per-diem structures. Our Houston book is smaller than our western metros — we say that plainly — and service technicians and controls people make up most of it.
Looking for an HVAC recruiter in Houston or a mechanical contractor recruiter serving Houston, TX? Gulfstream Strategic Placements recruits for commercial mechanical contractors, covering HVAC service, plumbing, piping, sheet metal and building automation. Share the work location and role so the search starts with your actual project or service requirements.
A Houston contractor search needs more than a matching job title. Tell us whether the work involves chiller service, chilled-water piping, DDC/BACnet controls, estimating, project management or VDC/BIM coordination, along with the required experience, schedule and travel. We talk with candidates before presenting them and provide a written summary to support your hiring decision.
If you searched “HVAC recruiter near me” in Houston, our staffed office is in Corona, California, and we recruit nationwide; this page does not represent a separate Houston office. Your company name stays confidential in public job descriptions. Searches are direct-hire contractor roles, not union hall dispatch; union-signatory and merit-shop contractors can both submit a job order.
Tell us what you are hiring in Houston and the recruiter who covers this market will contact you the same business day with next steps, a realistic pay range and the candidates we already know. Most searches run on contingency — you pay only when a hire starts — with a 90-day replacement guarantee on contingency placements; retained fees apply only to confidential or executive searches.
Houston mechanical hiring blends commercial construction and service with industrial and process work: the medical center and healthcare campuses, universities, petrochemical and plant support along the ship channel, and distribution and data center growth around the beltways. UA Local 68, UA Local 211 pipefitters and IBEW Local 716 supply much of the union labor.
We recruit process and commercial pipefitting foremen, plumbing superintendents, chiller and boiler service technicians, central plant operators, mechanical project managers, estimators, building automation technicians and QA/QC staff for Houston-area contractors.
Industrial and commercial candidates in Houston are not interchangeable, so we qualify which side of that line a person actually works on before we send them.
Looking for HVAC, plumbing, piping or mechanical work in Houston? We are running 91 live searches in the Houston region right now. Applying is free, we never charge candidates, and we do not release your name to a contractor without your say-so.
Commercial mechanical, plumbing, sheet metal and controls contractors across the Houston, TX market. We recruit for them directly, so the 91 openings listed on our jobs page are real searches, not job-board reposts. We do not name a contractor publicly before you agree to an interview.
No. Candidates never pay us — the hiring contractor pays the fee. You can apply to any Houston opening or set a free email alert and talk to a recruiter before your name goes anywhere.
Searching "plumber jobs near me" or "HVAC jobs near me" from Houston? Each search below is filtered to the Houston, TX area and shows only roles we are recruiting for right now — 91 live openings today. Applying is free and your name is never sent to a contractor without your approval.
Houston mechanical work is largely covered by UA Local 68 (Houston), UA Local 211 (Pipefitters), IBEW Local 716 (Houston). We work with signatory contractors as well as open-shop ones, so a Houston union journeyman, apprentice or foreman can apply here without leaving the hall's out-of-work list. Check the pay scale for your local below, then look at what is open.
Start with our Houston job list — it is filtered to the Houston, TX area and carries only live searches we are running for local commercial mechanical, plumbing, sheet metal and controls contractors, 91 of them today. You can apply in about 30 seconds, or set a free email alert and we will send new Houston roles as they post.
Yes. Houston mechanical work is largely covered by UA Local 68 (Houston), UA Local 211 (Pipefitters), IBEW Local 716 (Houston). Many of the Houston-area contractors we recruit for are signatory, and we also place with merit-shop contractors. We never charge a candidate a fee, and we keep your search confidential until you agree to an interview.
No. Both union and merit-shop contractors hire across the Houston market. Tell the recruiter which you prefer and we will only send you roles that match — your classification, hours and benefits are confirmed before any introduction.
A Houston search here is not just the city limits. We recruit across the whole Houston, TX labor market, so a role tagged Houston may sit in any of these communities — and the drive, shift and per-diem are spelled out before you talk to anyone.
UA Local 68, UA Local 211, IBEW Local 716 and SMART Local 54 are seated in the Houston market. Each one below links to its published pay scale, apprentice steps and hall contact details, so you can check scale before you apply. Gulfstream is not a hall and does not run an out-of-work list — applying here costs nothing and does not affect your standing with your local.
Journeyman scale on the Houston-area sheets we hold runs from $29.31 to $40.75 an hour base, before the benefit package. Those are the halls' own published figures, not our estimates — contract cycles move them, so confirm the current rate with the hall before you act on it.
91 active Houston-area searches are open today. This is the current mix by role, straight off our live job board — click a line to see only those openings.
UA Local 68, UA Local 211, IBEW Local 716 and SMART Local 54 are seated in the Houston market. We publish each hall's address, phone number and latest published journeyman rate on its own page, sourced from the local's wage sheet. Journeyman scale on the Houston-area sheets we hold runs from $29.31 to $40.75 an hour base, before the benefit package. Those are the halls' own published figures, not our estimates — contract cycles move them, so confirm the current rate with the hall before you act on it.
Our Houston listings cover Houston, Sugar Land, The Woodlands, Pasadena, TX, Katy, Baytown, Spring, TX, Pearland and the surrounding communities. Tell your recruiter how far you are willing to drive and we will only send roles inside that radius.
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91 active searches in the Houston region.
We separate industrial and commercial backgrounds carefully. A turnaround pipefitter and a Class-A office service technician are not interchangeable, and hiring across that line is the most common mistake we see in this market. Every search starts with a written scorecard so that line is drawn before anyone is presented.
Timelines depend on the market, the role and how specialized it is. We set expectations on an intake call before a search starts.
Most searches run on contingency — you pay only when a hire starts — with a 90-day replacement guarantee on contingency placements; retained fees apply only to confidential or executive searches.
A percentage of the hire's first-year base salary, in writing before work starts.
Timelines depend on the market and the role. We will be straight with you about yours.
Yes — 90 days on every placement.
No client name is disclosed until interviews are agreed.