Portland and the Willamette Valley run on semiconductor, healthcare, higher education, and public-sector work, with a steady commercial service base across the metro and into Vancouver. Service sales leads our mix here, followed by service technicians and project engineering.
Looking for an HVAC recruiter in Portland or a mechanical contractor recruiter serving Portland, OR? 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 Portland 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 Portland, our staffed office is in Corona, California, and we recruit nationwide; this page does not represent a separate Portland 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 Portland 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.
Portland mechanical work is healthcare, higher education, semiconductor and high-tech support out in Hillsboro, public buildings and a steady energy-retrofit and hydronics market across the metro. IBEW Local 48, UA Local 290 plumbers and steamfitters and SMART Local 16 sheet metal supply much of the labor.
We fill HVAC and hydronic service technicians, steamfitters and process piping foremen, sheet metal detailers and VDC staff, plumbing and mechanical project managers, controls technicians, estimators and superintendents for Portland-area contractors.
UA Local 290 covers a wide geography, so we confirm which part of the metro or valley a candidate will genuinely work in before we send them.
Looking for HVAC, plumbing, piping or mechanical work in Portland? We are running 18 live searches in the Portland 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 Portland, OR market. We recruit for them directly, so the 18 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 Portland 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 Portland? Each search below is filtered to the Portland, OR area and shows only roles we are recruiting for right now — 18 live openings today. Applying is free and your name is never sent to a contractor without your approval.
Portland mechanical work is largely covered by IBEW Local 48 (Portland), UA Local 290 (Plumbers & Steamfitters), SMART Local 16 (Sheet Metal). We work with signatory contractors as well as open-shop ones, so a Portland 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 Portland job list — it is filtered to the Portland, OR area and carries only live searches we are running for local commercial mechanical, plumbing, sheet metal and controls contractors, 18 of them today. You can apply in about 30 seconds, or set a free email alert and we will send new Portland roles as they post.
Yes. Portland mechanical work is largely covered by IBEW Local 48 (Portland), UA Local 290 (Plumbers & Steamfitters), SMART Local 16 (Sheet Metal). Many of the Portland-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 Portland 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 Portland search here is not just the city limits. We recruit across the whole Portland, OR labor market, so a role tagged Portland may sit in any of these communities — and the drive, shift and per-diem are spelled out before you talk to anyone.
SMART Local 16, UA Local 290 and IBEW Local 48 are seated in the Portland 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 Portland-area sheets we hold runs from $54.99 to $65.50 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.
18 active Portland-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 16, UA Local 290 and IBEW Local 48 are seated in the Portland 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 Portland-area sheets we hold runs from $54.99 to $65.50 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 Portland listings cover Portland, Beaverton, Hillsboro, Gresham, Tigard, Vancouver, WA, Salem, OR, Wilsonville 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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18 active searches in the Portland region.
Portland is a smaller, tightly connected market, so discretion matters. We work referral chains carefully and never approach two people at the same shop in the same week. Anonymized profiles first, names on your say-so.
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, quoted in writing before the search starts.
Timelines depend on the market and the role. We will be straight with you about yours.
Yes — a 90-day replacement guarantee.
Your company name is withheld until interviews are agreed.