About
Dynamic Executive Search is a construction-exclusive search firm. No generalist bench, no side practices. Superintendents, Project Managers, Estimators, and Project Executives, placed across the Intermountain West and Southwest.
Dynamic Executive Search is a construction-exclusive search firm based in Salt Lake City, serving contractors and construction leaders across the Intermountain West and Southwest. The firm works one industry, which means every search is grounded in real, firsthand knowledge of how construction actually runs. Not a generalist playbook borrowed from tech or healthcare recruiting and awkwardly applied to a jobsite.
That focus shapes how the work gets done. Conversations happen practitioner to practitioner. When we talk to a Superintendent about a role, we're talking about schedule, safety, means and methods, and what actually makes a project run well, not just matching keywords on a resume against a job description.
The network is built the same way. Most of the strongest people in this market aren't posting their resume anywhere. They're on a jobsite, running a good project, and they only hear about a real opportunity because someone in the industry brought it to them directly. That's the role Dynamic Executive Search plays, on both the client side and the candidate side, on contingency and collaborative searches alike.
"I started Dynamic Executive Search because construction hiring deserves someone who's actually in the industry, not adjacent to it. Every conversation I have keeps that in mind, whether it's a GC filling a role or a Superintendent figuring out what's next for their career."
Zach Motzkus, Owner & Founder, Dynamic Executive Search
A posting reaches whoever happens to be looking that week. It can't start a conversation with someone who isn't, and it can't tell a client anything about fit beyond a resume. That's the gap this firm fills.
Most of the strongest Superintendents and PMs in this market aren't checking job boards. They're identified, engaged, and vetted directly, one real conversation at a time.
A candidate exploring options doesn't want their name floating around the industry before they're ready. A client filling a sensitive role doesn't want it public early either. Discretion is the default here, not an upgrade you have to ask for.
Years spent talking with Superintendents and PMs about what makes a job site run well means knowing which lines on a resume actually matter and which ones are just noise.
No black box. Here's what happens between the first call and a signed offer.
A real conversation about the role, the team, the project pipeline, and what "good fit" actually means for this specific seat. Not a generic intake form.
Direct engagement with passive candidates who match, sourced from an existing network built over years in this market. Not a mass blast to a purchased list.
Real screening conversations happen before anyone reaches a client's desk. A shortlist here means every name on it is genuinely worth an interview.
Coordinated scheduling, honest feedback in both directions, and support through offer and negotiation, so nothing falls apart in the final stretch.
Sanford Rose AssociatesDynamic Executive Search is an independently owned member of the Sanford Rose Associates network, a national network of executive search firms. Independent ownership means local, direct relationships. The network means backup, cross-market reach, and a higher standard to answer to.
AGC UtahA member of the Associated General Contractors of Utah chapter, the trade association for the general contractors and specialty contractors we place talent with every day. Being in the room, not just recruiting for it.
Get in touch
No pitch, no pressure. Reach out directly.
Zach Motzkus
zach@dynamicexecsearch.com
Salt Lake City, Utah