Direct answer
Sitework and earthwork recruiting is about finding the people who make dirt behave: grading and excavation foremen, dirt superintendents, sitework project managers, and the estimators who can price cut and fill honestly. It is the discipline every project depends on first and one of the thinnest talent pools in construction. Amundson Group is a veteran-owned, construction-only firm with site development as a core practice, placing sitework and earthwork leadership across the Southeast, Sun Belt, and nationally.
Why sitework talent is its own pool
Mass grading, cut and fill, erosion control, utilities coordination, and pad delivery run on judgment that only comes from production dirt work: reading conditions, sequencing around weather, keeping equipment producing, and hitting grade the first time. A building superintendent cannot run a grading spread, and a paving foreman is not an earthwork foreman. Every data center campus, distribution hub, and master-planned community starts with this work, and the leaders who do it well are employed, courted, and invisible to job postings.
Roles AG places in sitework and earthwork
- Field: Dirt and grade foremen, grading superintendents, erosion superintendents, general superintendents for site packages.
- Office: Sitework project managers, project engineers, estimators with earthwork and site development bid history.
- Executive: Site development division leaders.
Proof
- Recent placements include dirt foremen, grade foremen, grading superintendents, and an erosion superintendent with self-performing site contractors, plus survey crew chiefs supporting site packages.
- Site development is an AG core sector: 191 permanent placements across 86 client companies in the trailing 12 months, ~38-day median time-to-fill.
- 1,200+ lifetime placements, 90,000+ candidate network, veteran-owned, construction-only.
How the search works
- Intake. Scope (mass grading, utilities, pads, erosion), equipment spread, production expectations, pay and per-diem policy.
- Field-network outreach. Direct and discreet, through working dirt-world leaders who know who is good.
- Screened shortlist. Verified production history and references from the supers they produced for.
- Offer and close. Managed to the day.
- Guarantee. Written replacement guarantee.
Fees follow the market norms on the fees and pricing page: contingency typically 20 to 25 percent of first-year base.
FAQ
Is sitework the same as heavy civil?
They overlap. Site development prepares land for vertical construction (grading, utilities, pads, paving); heavy civil includes dedicated infrastructure like highways, bridges, and treatment plants. AG places across both, and scopes which profile your project needs at intake.
Do you place equipment-heavy roles like grade foremen and operators?
Field leadership is the core: foremen, superintendents, and crew leaders. Recent placements include working crew leadership alongside salaried site management.
Can you support data center site packages?
Yes. Data center sitework draws the same grading, utility, and erosion leadership AG places continuously across the Sun Belt.
Next step
Hiring sitework or earthwork leadership? Book a call with Amundson Group or hire talent now. Related: utility construction recruiters and best heavy civil construction recruiters.