Premier national engineering staffing for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineers across data centers, healthcare, life sciences, and commercial buildings in all 50 states. 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 MEP staffing on a national scale, supporting firms delivering data centers, healthcare facilities, life sciences campuses, and commercial buildings. Our reach extends across the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Gulf Coast, and Pacific West.
Recruiting expertise
MEP hiring splits by project type far more than by job title, so an MEP staffing agency has to recruit a data center program and a hospital retrofit differently. These are the three routes firms use, and what each is good for.
Mechanical and electrical PEs, Revit-fluent MEP designers, plumbing and fire protection engineers. Screening is against the credential the work genuinely requires, which is the PE where drawings are sealed, and LEED AP, BEMP, CEM or NICET where they are not.
Directors of MEP engineering, mission-critical practice leads and department heads, approached directly. At that level the filter that works is which review authority passed their drawings and which projects were delivered, not a keyword match.
Commissioning is recruited as its own discipline, because the skill is testing, measurement and fault-finding rather than modeling. CxA and commissioning engineer scopes often run to a building's schedule, so we staff them to that schedule when a client asks.
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 CAD/BIM tools, 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 MEP team for a multi-year project.
Fluency in ASHRAE, NEC, NFPA, and IECC requirements for complex building 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
ASHRAETechnology AwardsHVAC and building-systems performance in real, occupied buildings, commercial, health care, education, industrial and residential categories.Chapter → region → society
IESIllumination AwardsLighting design and controls, interior, outdoor, energy & environmental, and control innovation.Section → internationalNECAProject Excellence AwardsElectrical construction across 13 categories, from design-build and health care to substations and EV infrastructure.National
Consulting-Specifying EngineerMEP GiantsThe annual ranking of North America's 100 largest MEP and fire-protection engineering firms.North AmericaConsulting-Specifying Engineer40 Under 40Individual recognition for mechanical, electrical, commissioning, fire/life-safety and energy engineers under 40, worth knowing about when you're hiring one.National
USGBCLocal Leadership AwardsLEED and high-performance building work, recognized at project and individual level.State & regionalEvery 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
Transportation, infrastructure & municipal projects
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
Designer against engineer, the certifications that matter, why specs name a code authority, and commissioning.