Premier national engineering staffing for transportation, infrastructure, and municipal projects across all 50 states. From major metropolitan hubs to rural infrastructure expansions, we help firms hire licensed PEs, project managers, and technical specialists.
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Metro Associates focuses exclusively on engineering, architecture, and construction careers. We specialize in connecting qualified professionals with opportunities nationwide.
Metro Associates provides specialized staffing on a national scale, supporting firms working with state DOTs, federal agencies, and private development. Our reach extends across the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Gulf Coast, and Pacific West.
Recruiting expertise
Firms arrive at a civil engineering staffing agency with three different problems, and which route fits depends on whether the gap is a seat, a leader or a deadline. In all three the employer pays the fee, the engineer never does, and nothing is owed until a hire starts.
The bulk of what we do. Site civil designers, roadway and drainage engineers, licensed PEs and project managers, hired onto your own payroll. The search runs against the standard the role actually sets, licensure, software and code fluency, rather than against whatever a resume database returns.
Practice leaders, chief engineers and partner-track PEs are not applying to anything. Those searches are run confidentially, by approaching named people at named firms, which is the part that separates an engineering headhunter from a posting.
Most of our placements are permanent. Where a capital program needs cover only for its duration, most often on construction-phase and inspection work, we recruit for the length of the program instead of selling a permanent hire the budget does not carry.
Explore our specialized recruiting in these metros, with more markets added regularly.
2026 national compensation trends
Every candidate we put forward is screened against the same bar nationwide: the design software, licensure, and code fluency the role actually demands.
Access to a vast database of 50,000+ pre-vetted engineering professionals.
We understand NCEES comity and the complexities of multi-state PE licensure.
Our recruiters reach high-performers who are not actively on job boards.
From a single PE to an entire project team for a multi-year contract.
Fluency in hiring requirements for FHWA, FAA, and major State DOT projects.
Looking to scale your team or explore new opportunities across the U.S.? Tell us what you need.
We recruit for firms whose projects are entered, and recognized, in the programs below. Metro doesn’t enter them; a recruiting firm isn’t eligible. We place the engineers who deliver the work that does, which is why we track what these juries reward.
ACECEngineering Excellence AwardsThe engineering profession's flagship project competition, judged on innovation, complexity and social value. Categories include Building/Technology Systems, Energy, Water and Transportation.State → nationalACECACEC state & metro member organizationsNational entries must come up through one of 51 state and metropolitan organizations, so every state runs its own Engineering Excellence competition first.All 50 states + DC
ENRBest Projects & Best of the BestRegional project awards across every state, DC and Puerto Rico, judged in 18 categories from airport/transit to sports/entertainment, plus special awards for safety and sustainability. Regional winners advance to the national round.Regional → national
ASCEOutstanding Civil Engineering Achievement (OCEA)Running since 1960, ASCE's top project honour for civil engineering skill and contribution to society.National
AASHTOAmerica's Transportation AwardsState DOT projects judged on quality of life, operations excellence, innovation and safety, regional rounds feed a national Top 12.Regional → national
AISC / NSBAPrize Bridge AwardsThe steel industry's highest design honour for bridges, awarded since 1928.NationalAPWAPublic Works Project of the YearRecognises the agency, the consulting engineer and the contractor together, in four cost divisions and five categories.Chapter → nationalEvery US state and Washington, DC runs its own Engineering Excellence competition. See the state-by-state list.
Each logo is the trademark of the organization that runs the program, shown to identify it. Metro Associates is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or a winner of any of them; our clients are the entrants.
Capital programs across every phase and owner
Mechanical, electrical & plumbing systems
Treatment, distribution & stormwater programs
Materials testing, bridge & roadway inspection
Public works & capital improvement programs
Bridge design, high-rise & seismic retrofit
DOT programs, highway design & transit planning
AEC program directors, PMs & owner's reps
Licensure and comity, pay by seniority, consulting against agency work, and what is hardest to fill.