Gulfstream Strategic Placements connects commercial mechanical contractors, ESCOs, and building automation integrators with top HVAC, plumbing, piping, sheet metal, and controls talent across the United States.
Chiller technicians, boiler technicians, HVAC service technicians, refrigeration techs and building automation controls integrators — the field talent that keeps maintenance agreements profitable and buildings running.
Installers, foremen and superintendents for commercial HVAC, plumbing, piping and sheet metal projects. We match crews to your job types, scale and schedule — not just a trade title.
Project executives, project managers, superintendents and general foremen for commercial HVAC, plumbing, piping and sheet metal contractors. We recruit against your backlog and delivery method, not a generic job title.
Service managers, service directors and lead technicians for contractors running maintenance agreements, retrofit and 24/7 response — including P&L-owning branch leadership.
Chief estimators, senior estimators and preconstruction managers who can take off mechanical scope, build a bid strategy and defend the number in a hard-bid or design-assist room.
VDC managers, piping and sheet metal detailers, BIM coordinators, and BAS/DDC programmers and controls project managers. These are the two scopes contractors tell us are hardest to staff.
How an engagement runs
Intake — We take the scope, market, comp band and start date — usually a 20-minute call. Request candidates any time.
Search — Sourcing runs against our own mechanical database plus direct outreach.
Hire — Most searches are contingency, so you pay only when you hire, with a 90-day replacement guarantee. For executive or confidential roles, we also offer retained search, scoped and priced with you up front.
Union recruitment and wage research
About half of the contractors we recruit for are signatory shops, so we keep an open reference set for the trades: hall addresses and dispatch numbers, the latest published journeyman scale with its effective date, and the openings we are actively recruiting for near each hall. Gulfstream is a private recruiting firm — we do not run dispatch, we are not affiliated with any local, and we do not set or negotiate union rates. Every wage figure on the site is the local's own published sheet, dated, with a link to the source.
Mechanical construction recruiters in South Corona, California
Gulfstream Strategic Placements is a commercial mechanical construction recruiting firm based in South Corona, California, serving the Inland Empire, greater Los Angeles and Orange County in person and the rest of the United States remotely. The office below is our only location; everywhere else we work as a remote search partner.
Gulfstream Strategic Placements, 4160 Temescal Canyon Road, Suite 401, Corona, CA 92883. Phone (951) 208-7780. Email hello@gulfstreamsp.com. Monday to Friday, 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM Pacific. Closed Saturday and Sunday.
Where we recruit in person
From the South Corona office we meet contractors and candidates in person across the Inland Empire, Orange County and greater Los Angeles, and we recruit for signatory and merit shops in every other state remotely. These are the union halls closest to us:
Cities served from the Corona office: Corona, Riverside, Ontario, San Bernardino, Temecula, Anaheim, Santa Ana, Irvine, Los Angeles, Long Beach.
We are a specialist recruiting firm for commercial mechanical construction — HVAC, plumbing, piping, sheet metal, building automation and VDC/BIM. We place project managers, superintendents, estimators, service leaders, detailers, controls engineers and executives with contractors across the United States.
Where is Gulfstream located?
Our office is at 4160 Temescal Canyon Road, Suite 401, Corona, CA 92883, in South Corona. Phone (951) 208-7780, hello@gulfstreamsp.com, Monday to Friday, 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM Pacific. Closed Saturday and Sunday.
Do you recruit for union contractors?
Yes. We recruit for both signatory and merit-shop contractors. We publish hall contacts and the locals' own published wage sheets as a reference, but Gulfstream does not run dispatch, does not control referral, and does not set union rates.
Is there a fee for candidates?
No. Candidates are never charged. Employers pay the fee. Most searches are contingency, so you pay only when you hire; retained search is also available for executive or confidential roles, scoped and priced with you up front.
How fast do you present candidates?
It depends on the role, the market and the pay. We set expectations on the first call and update you as the search moves.