Direct-hire executive search for GCs, owner-developers, and construction managers across California. Since 1997. Never staffing, never temp.
Who We Work With
You build in California. You know the talent problem is not volume, it is precision. The Senior PM who has actually run wrap product. The superintendent who has taken a ground-up job from dirt to TCO without burning the sub base. Those people are employed, producing, and not reading job boards.
That is who we recruit. SBR Jobs is a direct-hire executive search firm for the California building industry:
- General contractors: commercial, multifamily, healthcare, K-12, ground-up and TI
- Owner-developers and homebuilders: land, precon, and delivery teams that build for their own balance sheet
- Construction managers and design-build firms: owner-side and agency CM leadership
- Data center and mission critical builders: this market has its own section below for a reason
Roles We Place
Superintendent · Project Manager · Senior PM · Project Executive · Preconstruction Manager · Estimator (hard-bid and negotiated) · VP of Construction · VP of Land Development and Acquisition · Director of Purchasing · CFO and operations leadership.
If the seat runs work, wins work, or prices work, it is in our lane.
Data Center and Mission Critical Construction Recruiting
California’s data center pipeline is real: hyperscale and colocation work in Silicon Valley and Santa Clara, powered shell and fit-out programs pushing into the Sacramento region and Central Valley, where land and power pencil.
Mission critical is a different hiring problem than commercial work. The scopes are MEP-heavy, the schedules are commissioning-driven, and a PM who has never lived through Level 5 commissioning learns on your job. We recruit the people who have already done it:
- Mission Critical Project Managers and Project Executives
- MEP Superintendents, QA/QC and commissioning managers
- Preconstruction and estimating leadership for mission critical pursuits
We speak the language: uptime, UPS and generator plants, Cx levels, tier requirements, hyperscaler QA culture. Your candidates will not need it translated, and neither do we.
How We Recruit
A.R.R. : Attract, Recruit, Retain. 25+ years in California construction, sharpened with AI-powered search precision.
- Passive-candidate focus. The best builders are not applying. We go get them.
- Culture-fit scoring, not just skills matching. A technically perfect hire who walks at month eight costs you a season. We screen for the fit that keeps people.
- Weekly transparent reporting. You see the market as we work it: who engaged, who declined and why, what the market is telling us about the role.
- Personalized outreach at scale. Every message is written for the person receiving it. That is why they answer.
Recent Search Work
- Senior Project Manager, wrap and podium multifamily, for a Southern California owner-developer
- Director of Land Acquisition for a California homebuilder
- Senior Superintendent, ground-up multifamily, East Bay
Headquartered in Sacramento. Working All of California.
SBR Jobs is based at 2100 21st Street, Sacramento, CA 95818. Northern California is home turf: Sacramento, the Bay Area, the Central Valley. Our searches run statewide, from the Inland Empire to the North State.
What should the role pay? Our 2026 California Construction Salary Guide covers current comp for the seats we place.
Specialty Desks
Hiring for one seat in particular? We run dedicated desks: superintendent recruiters, estimator and preconstruction recruiters, and construction management recruiters for California. Working outside the state? See our national construction management practice.
FAQ
Do you do staffing or temp placement?
No. SBR is executive search, direct-hire only. Every search is retained-level effort on permanent seats.
What parts of California do you cover?
All of it. We are headquartered in Sacramento and work statewide: Bay Area, Central Valley, Los Angeles, Orange County, Inland Empire, San Diego.
How do you find candidates other recruiters miss?
We recruit passive talent. Most of the people we place were not looking when we called. Job boards surface the market’s most active 10 percent; we work the other 90.
How fast can you present candidates?
A calibrated shortlist typically lands within the first two weeks, with weekly reporting from day one.
Tell Us About the Seat
One call. Bring the role, we will bring the market.
Angel Ahumada · SBR Jobs | Construction Executive Search
424-352-6241 · 2100 21st Street, Sacramento, CA 95818
