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RETAINED EXECUTIVE SEARCH · THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

The people who win the work.

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RETAINED

A search practice.
Not a vending machine.

Reliance Workforce runs retained, senior-level searches across construction, engineering, energy, and data center infrastructure for the firms building North America.

01
Understand the vision

We learn your business, your team, and the outcome the hire must deliver, before we represent any of it.

02
Craft the narrative

Top operators don’t answer job posts. We build the story that makes your opportunity impossible to ignore.

03
Plan for success

Every placement lands with a success roadmap anchored in your strategic objectives, not a handshake and an invoice.

286
PLACEMENTS SINCE 2016
50%+
DIRECTOR LEVEL AND ABOVE
6-MONTH
REPLACEMENT GUARANTEE
Jared Smith, Founder of Reliance Workforce
THE PRINCIPAL

The person who takes the brief runs the search.

Fortune 100 trained, two decades inside the built environment, and no associates. When Reliance Workforce takes your search, Jared Smith takes your search — the brief, the market, the shortlist, and the first year after the signature.

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ORGLOGIC+ · LEADERSHIP MAP

Is your leadership built for the next 24 months?

Lay your seats over the plan — seats, never names — and see what the plan needs, who owns it, what nobody owns, where the structure is exposed, and the one seat you’re missing. Four minutes. Powered by SymphonIQ.

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WHAT THE PLAN NEEDS · EXAMPLE
Open the second regional office
Nobody owns this
WHERE IT’S EXPOSED · EXAMPLE
VP Operations
Critical (est. 70–100) · No Backup · Over-Dependency
THE SEAT YOU’RE MISSING · EXAMPLE
Regional General Manager
ILLUSTRATIVE. EVERY SCORE IS A BAND, AND SAYS SO.
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Nine sectors.
One standard.

The built environment, exclusively. If it gets designed, engineered, financed, or constructed, we know who runs it.

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Who we have done it for.

Senior searches delivered for the firms designing, engineering and building North America’s infrastructure.

SELECTED CLIENTS · CURRENT AND PAST

Why it matters.

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UPDATED SEP 2026Solve for No Next Button

Software has long been symbolized by the reliable, slightly monotonous “Next” button. What happens to work, and hiring, when AI removes it?

Read the note →UPDATED SEP 2026Accelerating Human Progress

Unprecedented technological advancement is reshaping how teams are built, and who builds them.

Read the note →UPDATED SEP 2026Tired of Recruiters? So Are We

Recruiting in the A/E/C industry can be frustrating. Traditional agencies often fall short. Let’s do better.

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