Houston Construction Recruiters

Construction Recruiters in Houston, TX

Amundson Group is a specialist construction recruiter with a dedicated desk for Houston. We place superintendents, project managers, estimators, project engineers, foremen, and specialist roles with general contractors, subcontractors, and owners across heavy civil, site development, paving, data center, rail, tunnel, wastewater and underground utility construction.

Your recruiter in Houston

Marisa de Freitas + Jamie Horton, Marisa and Jamie co-lead our Houston desk, placing supers, PMs, estimators, and foremen for heavy civil, site development, paving, and data center contractors.

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Houston construction market overview

Houston is the largest construction market in Texas and one of the most active in the nation. The city’s economy is anchored by energy, petrochemical, healthcare, data center, and infrastructure work. The Texas Medical Center alone represents a continuous pipeline of healthcare construction, while the Ship Channel and surrounding industrial corridor drive billions in refinery and manufacturing facility investment.

Key drivers include ongoing Texas Medical Center expansion, multiple data center campuses in the Katy and Cypress corridors, the I-45 North Houston Highway Improvement Project, petrochemical facility upgrades along the Gulf Coast, and Port Houston’s expansion program.

Roles we place in Houston

  • Project Managers, Assistant PMs through senior PMs and operations leaders
  • Superintendents, Field leaders across heavy civil, site development, paving, data center, wastewater and underground utility construction
  • Estimators, Preconstruction and estimating professionals
  • Project Engineers, Early-career professionals managing submittals, RFIs, and project documentation
  • Safety Managers, OSHA-certified safety leadership for project and corporate roles
  • Foremen and general foremen, Experienced crew leaders for self-perform and specialty trade work
  • Specialist roles, Survey crews, schedulers, fleet and equipment managers

Why Houston contractors work with Amundson Group

Construction is all we do. We are not a generalist staffing agency that also happens to fill construction roles. Our recruiters specialize exclusively in the construction industry, we know the difference between a heavy civil superintendent and a data center one, and we know why it matters for your project.

Speed without compromise. 7 hours average from client brief to first qualified candidate. We maintain active networks of pre-vetted candidates in Houston and can present a shortlist within days.

Retained search. One named recruiter, a first qualified resume in 7 hours on average and a vetted shortlist in 7 days. For senior roles in Houston, retained search is typically the right path.

Market intelligence. Working the Houston construction market daily gives us real-time insight into compensation trends, competitor hiring, and candidate availability, which we share with our clients.

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Whether you need one key hire or an entire project team in Houston, Amundson Group has the network and expertise to deliver.

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We also place construction professionals across Texas and beyond. See our full sector coverage and team.

What Houston construction hires are paying at placement

Amundson Group publishes the base salary its placements were actually hired at, not survey answers. The October 2026 release of the Construction Placement Pay Index puts the median construction project manager placed in Texas at $130,000 over the last 24 months, across 18 placements, and the median estimator placed in Texas at $120,000 across 9. Nationally the October medians are $118,750 for an estimator, up 19% in a year, $112,500 for a project manager, $112,200 for a superintendent, $100,000 for a safety manager, $93,340 for a project engineer and $87,200 for a foreman. Houston offers sit inside those ranges for most roles, and the estimators and superintendents who have run Texas Department of Transportation work or a live utility plant clear the top of them. Base only, before truck, per diem and bonus. The full table, with every state and metro cut that clears the sample bar, is on the live index.

The Houston work we recruit for

  • Heavy civil: highway and bridge packages, interchange rebuilds, drainage and flood control, and the concrete paving crews that go with them.
  • Site development: mass grading, wet and dry utilities, lift stations and paving for the industrial parks, master planned communities and logistics sites going in along the Grand Parkway, in Fort Bend and Montgomery counties and out toward Baytown.
  • Water and wastewater: treatment plant expansions, pump stations, large diameter pipelines and the rehabilitation work that keeps an aging system running.
  • Data center and mission critical builds across the Texas corridor, for general contractors and the electrical and mechanical trade partners who carry most of the schedule risk.
  • Rail, port and underground utility work: track and yard construction, container terminal civil packages, trenchless and open cut utility installation.

Houston is where Amundson Group was founded in January 2020 and where it is headquartered today, on Brittmoore Road in west Houston. The recruiters who work Houston searches have the city’s contractors, owners and project pipeline in front of them every day, and the firm’s 90,000+ professional network is deepest in Texas. A South Africa based sourcing team keeps a Houston search moving overnight, so a role opened on Monday afternoon has qualified resumes waiting on Tuesday morning.

How a Houston search runs

  • Intake, the same day: a 20 minute call to pin down the work, the pay band, the reporting line and the one thing the last person in the seat got wrong.
  • First qualified resumes in 7 hours on average: Houston professionals the team already knows, plus targeted outreach into the 90,000+ network.
  • A vetted shortlist within 7 days: every candidate interviewed by a recruiter who speaks the trade, references and licenses checked before you see the resume, compensation expectations confirmed so no offer is wasted.
  • Interviews scheduled around your superintendents’ days, offers negotiated to close, and a check in after the start date.

Fees are agreed before the search starts and nothing is owed unless you hire. Confidential searches, for a replacement who does not yet know they are being replaced, run the same way with a smaller circle.

What Houston contractors ask for most

Three asks come up on almost every Houston intake call. Bilingual field leadership: a superintendent or foreman who can run a mostly Spanish speaking crew and still write the daily report the owner wants. Estimators who know Texas unit price work and the software behind it, because the estimator seat has become the hardest to fill in the state and the pay index shows why. And project managers who have closed out a public job with a Texas owner, where the paperwork decides whether the margin survives. Amundson Group screens for all three before a resume reaches you, and it says so when a candidate falls short on one of them.

Roles filled from this page

Superintendents and general superintendents, project managers and project executives, project engineers and assistant project managers, estimators and chief estimators, foremen and pipe crew leads, safety managers, schedulers, surveyors and survey party chiefs, quality managers, equipment and fleet managers, and the preconstruction and operations leaders above them. Hourly trades are placed alongside the salaried seats when a client asks for a crew. Every role is construction; Amundson Group does not recruit outside it.

Questions we hear on this market

How fast can Amundson Group send candidates for a Houston role?

First qualified resumes arrive in 7 hours on average, and a vetted shortlist is ready within 7 days. The firm is headquartered in Houston, its network is deepest in Texas, and an overnight sourcing team keeps the search moving while Houston sleeps.

Do you recruit people from outside Houston for a Houston job?

Yes. Most Houston searches close with a Houston professional, but the 90,000+ network covers every state, and relocation candidates and traveling superintendents are presented when the local pool is thin, as it is for data center and tunnel work.

What does a Houston construction recruiter cost?

Fees are agreed before the search starts and are owed only when you hire. A search that does not produce a hire costs nothing.

Which Houston construction roles are hardest to fill right now?

Estimators and superintendents. The Placement Pay Index shows estimator pay at placement up 19% in a year nationally, and Texas project managers placed at a median of $130,000 over 24 months, both signs of a market where good people are hired fast and paid to stay.