Seattle and the Eastside carry our largest active search book: data center, biotech, hospital, higher education, and a deep commercial service base from Everett to Tacoma. The role mix is broader here than anywhere else we work — service sales, engineering, project management, and field service all pull at once.
Tell us what you are hiring in Seattle 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.
Seattle mechanical hiring covers healthcare, life science and lab buildings, aerospace and manufacturing support, universities, high-rise office and a large energy-retrofit and decarbonization market from Everett down through Seattle, Bellevue and Kent. IBEW Local 46, IBEW Local 191 in Everett, UA Local 32 and UA Local 699 anchor the union trades.
We recruit commercial HVAC and hydronic service technicians, heat pump and electrification retrofit leads, lab and process piping foremen, plumbing project managers, building automation and DDC technicians, estimators, superintendents and VDC staff for Puget Sound contractors.
Washington energy code work rewards people who have actually commissioned heat pump and hydronic systems, and that is what we screen for rather than titles alone.
Looking for HVAC, plumbing, piping or mechanical work in Seattle? We are running 88 live searches in the Seattle 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 Seattle, WA market. We recruit for them directly, so the 88 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 Seattle 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 Seattle? Each search below is filtered to the Seattle, WA area and shows only roles we are recruiting for right now — 88 live openings today. Applying is free and your name is never sent to a contractor without your approval.
Seattle mechanical work is largely covered by IBEW Local 46 (Seattle), IBEW Local 191 (Everett), UA Local 32 (Plumbers & Pipefitters), UA Local 699 (Plumbers). We work with signatory contractors as well as open-shop ones, so a Seattle 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 Seattle job list — it is filtered to the Seattle, WA area and carries only live searches we are running for local commercial mechanical, plumbing, sheet metal and controls contractors, 88 of them today. You can apply in about 30 seconds, or set a free email alert and we will send new Seattle roles as they post.
Yes. Seattle mechanical work is largely covered by IBEW Local 46 (Seattle), IBEW Local 191 (Everett), UA Local 32 (Plumbers & Pipefitters), UA Local 699 (Plumbers). Many of the Seattle-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 Seattle 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 Seattle search here is not just the city limits. We recruit across the whole Seattle, WA labor market, so a role tagged Seattle may sit in any of these communities — and the drive, shift and per-diem are spelled out before you talk to anyone.
UA Local 32, UA Local 699, IBEW Local 46 and IBEW Local 191 and other area halls are seated in the Seattle 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 Seattle-area sheets we hold runs from $65.14 to $76.95 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.
88 active Seattle-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 32, UA Local 699, IBEW Local 46 and IBEW Local 191 and other area halls are seated in the Seattle 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 Seattle-area sheets we hold runs from $65.14 to $76.95 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 Seattle listings cover Seattle, Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland, Everett, Tacoma, Renton, Kent, WA 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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88 active searches in the Seattle region.
Seattle candidates screen employers as hard as employers screen them. We prepare a straight, specific pitch on your projects, your backlog, and the path in the seat — vague pitches lose people on the first call here.
Two to three weeks on most roles. Life-science and hyperscale specialists take 90 to 150 days even with active sourcing; that is a small, well-paid group that rarely looks.
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, in writing before we start.
Two to three weeks on standard roles; 90 to 150 days on life-science and hyperscale specialists.
Yes — 90 days on every placement.
Your name stays out of the market until interviews are agreed.