Gulfstream recruits mechanical construction and service talent for contractors across Los Angeles County — downtown, the Westside, the San Fernando Valley, the South Bay, and the Gateway cities. Entertainment, healthcare, high-rise repositioning, and municipal work drive the mix, and service is the heaviest part of our LA book.
Tell us what you are hiring in Los Angeles 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 — and every placement carries a 90-day replacement guarantee; retained fees apply only to confidential or executive searches.
Los Angeles mechanical hiring covers healthcare and OSHPD/HCAI work, entertainment and studio facilities, high-rise office retrofits, LAX and public infrastructure, and one of the largest commercial service bases in the country. IBEW Local 11, SMART Local 105 sheet metal and UA Local 709 pipefitters anchor the union side across the basin.
We recruit sheet metal and duct foremen, detailers and VDC/BIM staff, pipefitters and plumbing superintendents, chiller and boiler service technicians, central plant operators, mechanical project managers, estimators and controls technicians for Los Angeles contractors and building owners.
LA candidates weigh commute above almost everything else, so every shortlist we send is filtered for where the work actually is — Downtown, the Westside, the South Bay or the Valley — not just the city name on the job order.
Looking for HVAC, plumbing, piping or mechanical work in Los Angeles? We are running 45 live searches in the Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles, CA market. We recruit for them directly, so the 45 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 Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles? Each search below is filtered to the Los Angeles, CA area and shows only roles we are recruiting for right now — 45 live openings today. Applying is free and your name is never sent to a contractor without your approval.
Los Angeles mechanical work is largely covered by IBEW Local 11 (Los Angeles), SMART Local 105 (Sheet Metal), UA Local 709 (Pipefitters). We work with signatory contractors as well as open-shop ones, so a Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles job list — it is filtered to the Los Angeles, CA area and carries only live searches we are running for local commercial mechanical, plumbing, sheet metal and controls contractors, 45 of them today. You can apply in about 30 seconds, or set a free email alert and we will send new Los Angeles roles as they post.
Yes. Los Angeles mechanical work is largely covered by IBEW Local 11 (Los Angeles), SMART Local 105 (Sheet Metal), UA Local 709 (Pipefitters). Many of the Los Angeles-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 Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles search here is not just the city limits. We recruit across the whole Los Angeles, CA labor market, so a role tagged Los Angeles may sit in any of these communities — and the drive, shift and per-diem are spelled out before you talk to anyone.
SMART Local 105, UA Local 709, IBEW Local 11 and SMART Local 170 and other area halls are seated in the Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles-area sheets we hold runs from $56.46 to $65.00 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.
45 active Los Angeles-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.
SMART Local 105, UA Local 709, IBEW Local 11 and SMART Local 170 and other area halls are seated in the Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles-area sheets we hold runs from $56.46 to $65.00 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 Los Angeles listings cover Los Angeles, Burbank, Glendale, Pasadena, Torrance, Long Beach, Van Nuys, Santa Monica 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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45 active searches in the Los Angeles region.
Direct outreach against a named target list, not a job-board post. LA's mechanical labor pool is large, but the strongest field leaders move inside a small circle, so we work by referral and by mapping who is running which project right now. You see anonymized profiles before names.
Two to three weeks for service technicians and project managers. Longer for high-rise superintendents and anyone with hospital HCAI experience — that pool is small and mostly employed.
Most searches run on contingency — you pay only when a hire starts — and every placement carries a 90-day replacement guarantee; retained fees apply only to confidential or executive searches.
A percentage of the hire's first-year base salary, quoted in writing up front. Nothing is owed on a contingency search until a hire starts.
Two to three weeks to a first slate on standard service and project management roles; longer on high-rise superintendent and hospital-experienced searches.
Yes — a 90-day replacement guarantee on every placement.
Your name stays out of the market until interviews are agreed. We approach candidates with the scope, region and pay range instead.