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Construction recruitment. United Kingdom and United States.

ROMWOOD Search Associates

The best people in the built environment. Nothing less.

Romwood Search Associates

Romwood Search Associates is a specialist recruitment firm for the construction industry. We place project managers, cost consultants and quantity surveyors, site and construction managers, and engineers with consultancies, contractors and client-side teams. We work across the United Kingdom and the United States, from London, New York and Texas, at every level from graduate to partner.

Most recruiters in this market have never delivered a project. We have. And we are supported by twelve years of recruitment leadership. So we know what good looks like from both sides of the table.

Why Romwood

Two things most recruiters in this market cannot say.

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Sector credibility

We did the job.

Romwood was founded by a project manager with six years delivering schemes at leading UK consultancies, including Gardiner & Theobald, Knight Frank and CPC. The clients included Blackstone, Hudson Pacific, British Land and St Martins. We know what a good project manager looks like because we were one.

Recruitment craft

Backed by people who know how to run a desk.

Behind the desk sits twelve years of recruitment leadership at a major international consultancy, up to Operating Director level. That experience supports every search, so the industry judgement is matched by real recruitment discipline.

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Where we work

Two markets. One standard.

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London and the regions

United Kingdom

London and the major regional centres. Consultancies, contractors and client-side teams of every size.

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New York and Texas

United States

The same disciplines as the UK, plus engineers and data centre specialists for hyperscale and colocation builds.

Sectors

Where the work is in 2026.

Funded, regulated and technically complex sectors are moving fastest. We recruit across all of them.

  • Infrastructure
  • Data centres
  • Life sciences
  • Commercial offices and prime retrofit
  • Residential and build to rent
  • Logistics and industrial
  • Education and public sector
  • Hotels and leisure

How we work

Three disciplines, on every search.

We qualify properly.

We interview every candidate against your brief before you see them. We check the projects they delivered, not just the CV. Then we tell you what we found.

We close from the first conversation.

Salary, notice period, location and reasons for moving are settled at the start. By the time an offer is made, there is nothing left to negotiate.

We handle counter offers before they happen.

We talk about the counter offer in the first meeting, not the last. Candidates decide what they would do before one arrives. So an accepted offer holds.

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Our standards

Straight answers, from the first call.

We work to written terms agreed before we start. Every assignment carries a replacement guarantee. We never send a CV without the candidate's clear yes, and we never send one you did not ask for.

How we work with clients

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Talk to us about your next hire, or your next move.

One conversation is usually enough to tell whether we can help.