Connect With the MEP Workforce in One Tap.
Tap The Trades is a hiring platform for the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing trades. Companies search a database of HVAC, chiller, boiler, controls, and pipefitting professionals, including office and executive staff. Tradespeople build a profile in minutes and get found, without writing a resume.
Which One Are You?
Build Your Profile in 5 Minutes. From Your Truck.
Tap your trade, your certifications, and how much you travel, and you’re done. No resume to write. Companies hiring your trade can find you and message you directly.
Stop Waiting on Applicants. Go Find Them.
Search MEP tradespeople by trade, certification, location, how much they travel, and manufacturer experience. Then message the ones you want directly. No applicant pile to dig through.
The First Candidate Database Built for the Heavy Mechanical Trades.
Ditch the Resume.
Tradespeople build a skills-based profile by tapping: trade, systems, certifications, licenses, union affiliation. Or record a voice note and we draft the profile from it.
Search the Way You Hire.
Filter by trade, role level, and union status, then search every profile for the equipment and manufacturers someone has worked on. Search “Carrier” or “ammonia” and get back the techs who listed it.
Message. Interview. Hire.
Messaging that works like texting, inside the platform. No email chains and no recruiter sitting in the middle of the conversation.
The Pulse of the U.S. Trades Industry
Hiring, the workforce pipeline, and construction activity across the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) trades.
Trades Strength Index
Posting momentum and hiring breadth across trades and metros, 0 to 100.
Change vs. prior month
- Balfour Beatty sells stake in Gammon ConstructionConstruction Dive
- 26,048 MEP job openings posted in the last 30 days
- Time is money: How to compress interior construction schedules and move In soonerConstruction Dive
- HVAC postings up 37.5% on the prior 30 days
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- Refrigeration postings up 36.8% on the prior 30 days
- Iran conflict pushes construction prices to near 4-year highConstruction Dive
- Controls and BAS postings up 43.3% on the prior 30 days
- Turner-FH joint venture breaks ground on Colorado hospitalConstruction Dive
- Pipefitting postings up 42.4% on the prior 30 days
- ‘I’ve lived it’: How HITT’s CEO brings trade experience to her roleConstruction Dive
- Sheet metal postings up 33.7% on the prior 30 days
- Texas leads MEP hiring with 2,948 openings
- Dallas–Fort Worth posted 544 MEP openings in the last 30 days
- Houston posted 493 MEP openings in the last 30 days
- Nashville MEP postings up 55.6% on the prior 30 days
Hiring pulse
HVAC is heating, ventilation, and air conditioning. BAS is building automation systems.
- New MEP job openings posted
- 26,048
- HVAC service technician roles added
- 4,342
- Sheet metal positions posted
- 670
- Refrigeration and ammonia jobs added
- 554
- Controls and BAS openings
- 1,348
Workforce pipeline
Registered apprentices in construction, FY2026. DOL, updated September 2026.
- New apprentices registered
- 110,102
- Apprentices completed
- 33,277
- OSHA construction safety trainees, FY2026
- 1,286,484
Industry health
Direction of job postings by trade.
- HVACUp 37.5%
- RefrigerationUp 36.8%
- Controls and BASUp 43.3%
- PipefittingUp 42.4%
- Sheet metalUp 33.7%
Contractor activity
- Leading hiring states
- Texas, Florida, California
- Busiest hiring metros
- Dallas–Fort Worth, Houston, Phoenix
- Fastest-growing metros
- Nashville, Atlanta, Columbus
- Median age of open listings
- 27 days