A privately held manufacturing company is seeking a Plant Manager to lead operations at a metal stamping and fabrication facility in the Phoenix metro area. This role oversees all aspects of the site including production, quality, customer relationships, and overall operational performance.
This is a highly autonomous leadership opportunity within a long-standing family-owned manufacturing organization.
Position Overview The Plant Manager will be responsible for ensuring the facility consistently delivers high-quality metal components on time and at competitive cost. This role leads the site’s operational strategy while working closely with ownership to maintain strong customer relationships and business performance. The facility operates in a job-shop environment supporting multiple industries, producing short and medium run metal components through stamping, machining, and fabrication processes.
SkyWater Search Partners is representing a long-standing, highly-respected institution in Minneapolis as they look to hire a highly organized and proactive Senior Administrative Assistant to support senior leadership and help coordinate a wide range of programs, events, and operational initiatives. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys balancing administrative excellence with meaningful, people-focused work. This role will require an equal balance of organization skills, business communication, creativity and community building.
This is a fully onsite role in Minneapolis that follows typical core business hours, with the occasional Sunday participation.
SkyWater Search Partners is seeking a highly capable and proactive Executive Assistant to serve as a trusted partner to our client’s CEO and Executive Team. This is a critical, high-impact role responsible for ensuring seamless day-to-day operations, supporting strategic initiatives, and acting as a central point of coordination across leadership.
This role is ideal for someone who thrives in an entrepreneurial, fast-paced environment, anticipates needs, and operates with a high level of professionalism, discretion, and ownership.
Why this role?
Established, stable company with 100+ years of success
Strong culture with long-tenured employees
Meaningful, high-impact work supporting executive leadership
Competitive benefits and a collaborative environment
A leading industrial power solutions innovator in the Twin Cities is seeking an Embedded Firmware Engineer to help design and advance cutting-edge control systems used in semiconductor manufacturing and industrial automation.
This is a unique opportunity to join a profitable, mid-sized engineering firm (60+ employees) where your work directly impacts real-world applications—from chip fabrication to advanced manufacturing processes.
The Role: You’ll design and develop embedded firmware for power control systems, with a strong focus on fieldbus communication (EtherCAT, Ethernet/IP, etc.). This role offers high ownership—ideal for engineers who thrive in environments with autonomy and hands-on hardware interaction.
Our client is an innovative engineering and manufacturing company that develops advanced power control technologies used in demanding industrial and semiconductor applications. They are a long-standing and valued client of ours with a strong reputation for engineering excellence, a collaborative culture, and the ability for engineers to take ownership of projects from concept through production. This is an opportunity to join a growing team where your work directly impacts cutting-edge manufacturing solutions and next-generation power technologies.
We are seeking a Mechanical Design Engineer to design and develop automated assembly and test systems used to manufacture high-performance electronic power control products. This role offers strong design ownership and the opportunity to work across the full product lifecycle—from concept and fixture design to automation programming and manufacturing implementation.
We’re partnering with a returning client in the west metro to identify a Production Manager to lead and scale their manufacturing operations. This is a high-impact leadership role overseeing multiple assembly lines and a team of 30+ employees in a growing, engineering-driven environment. The ideal candidate will bring strong leadership within electronics or industrial manufacturing, with experience supporting high-mix, prototype-oriented production and driving continuous improvement initiatives.
Come join a rapidly growing CPG brand in downtown Chicago and have the opportunity to build something! We are seeking a strategic FP&A leader who will interface across all corners of the business — specifically, someone with commercial/sales finance experience who can help drive value at the product/SKU and brand level for the business.
If you are someone who likes interfacing with executives, having a seat at the table for decision making, and wants the ability to directly drive value and growth for your organization, this is a great role for you.
Hybrid on-site in downtown Chicago.
Ideal candidates have 5-10 years of FP&A experience, and at least 2+ of commercial finance/sales finance experience. CPG experience prefered.
Skywater is recruiting an Operations Leader to oversee plant operations for a Chicago-based paperboard converting facility. This leader will manage all operational functions including production, maintenance, shipping, safety, and inventory while driving operational improvements across a two-shift workforce.
This role is ideal for a hands-on plant leader who enjoys building systems, leading experienced teams, and improving operational performance in a dynamic manufacturing environment.
SkyWater is excited to partner with a longtime client in the CPG space who is hiring a senior financial analyst. This role opened due to a promotion and comes at a time of strong company growth, over 2 billion this year through both organic growth and M&A. The team has a great culture and maintains a solid work-life balance.
This position is a great fit for industry financial analysts or public accountants in audit who are interested in moving into a more analytical, business-focused role. Only local candidates in the Twin Cities will be considered.
A growing Midwest manufacturing company is seeking a Program Manager to lead new product development initiatives and oversee the successful launch of complex manufactured products from concept through production.
This role will serve as the central driver of New Product Development (NPD) programs, coordinating engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and commercial teams to deliver projects on time, within budget, and aligned with customer requirements.
The ideal candidate brings strong program or project management experience in a manufacturing environment and understands how to guide cross-functional teams through the full product development lifecycle while maintaining alignment across operations and engineering.
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