We’ve partnered with a family-owned, debt-free carbon flat roll steel company to find an outside sales rep for the Dallas area. They’ve never had a layoff, and they focus on one thing: hot rolled and pickled sheet, with more inventory on hand than the competition and delivery in a day or two, not a week or two.
This is a true run-your-own-territory seat. You’ll spend three days a week in front of customers and two working from your home office. Management acts as a resource, not a babysitter. They’ll hunt down steel, jump on customer calls and back you up, but they won’t micromanage. You’ll get a list of prospect names to call, and you’ll do best if you already have Texas relationships and a book you can bring with you.
Compensation is a strong base + uncapped commission based on every ton you sell, paid quarterly. You’ll also get a car allowance, phone, computer, health insurance and a 401(k) match.
SkyWater Search Partners is partnering with a large, well-established construction organization on an Accounting Manager search. The company is in a strong position, with a healthy backlog, several significant projects underway and continued growth expected across multiple construction verticals. Local Twin Cities metro candidates will only be considered, and onsite presence 4 days per week is required.
This is a great opportunity for someone who wants more than just a traditional Accounting Manager role. You’ll have ownership across core accounting operations, financial reporting and close while leading and developing a team. You’ll also work closely with project accounting, payroll and FP&A and have the opportunity to take on broader responsibility as the finance organization continues to evolve.
Location: Plymouth, MN Work Model: Onsite, five days per week Compensation: $95,000–$125,000 base salary + 10% STI bonus
The Opportunity
SkyWater is partnering with a high-growth organization in Plymouth to hire an experienced HR Business Partner. The company has grown tremendously over the past decade, and HR plays a visible, influential role in supporting its leaders, employees, and culture.
This is a broad, hands-on position for someone who enjoys variety and can move comfortably between strategic partnership and day-to-day execution. You will coach leaders, recruit talent, support employees, strengthen the culture, and help the organization continue to scale.
The HR team is lean, collaborative, and responsible for a great deal. The ideal candidate will bring strong HR judgment, initiative, and the ability to step in and contribute without requiring significant direction.
Key Responsibilities
Partner with leaders to understand business needs and provide thoughtful, practical HR guidance
Coach managers through employee relations, performance management, team dynamics, and organizational challenges
Build trusted relationships with employees and leaders across the organization
Support full-cycle recruiting, including intake, sourcing partnership, interviews, selection, and onboarding
Help strengthen an engaging, accountable, and people-focused culture
Respond to employee questions and provide guidance regarding policies, benefits, and workplace practices
Support talent planning, employee development, retention, and organizational effectiveness initiatives
Assist with the development and implementation of HR programs, processes, and policies
Identify opportunities to improve the employee experience and create more scalable HR practices
Balance strategic priorities with the hands-on needs of a growing business
Collaborate closely with the broader HR team and step into other priorities as needed
Ideal Candidate Profile
Broad HR experience as an HR Business Partner, Senior HR Generalist, or in a similarly versatile role
Demonstrated experience coaching and advising leaders
Strong employee relations skills and sound judgment
Experience supporting recruiting and talent acquisition activities
Comfortable working across multiple areas of HR rather than within one narrow specialty
Proactive, resourceful, and capable of working independently
Able to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced, evolving environment
Strong relationship-building, communication, and problem-solving skills
Willing to remain close to the work and contribute at both strategic and tactical levels
Energized by growth, change, and the opportunity to make a visible impact
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience preferred
HR certification is valued but not required
What Makes This Opportunity Unique
Join a successful organization experiencing significant growth
Work directly with leaders and influence how the business supports its people
Take on a broad role with meaningful ownership and variety
Join a collaborative HR team where strong ideas and initiative are valued
Make a visible impact on culture, leadership effectiveness, and the employee experience
Build your scope and earning potential through strong performance and increased contribution
This opportunity is best suited for someone motivated by meaningful work, trusted partnerships, and the ability to make an impact. While the organization does not offer a heavily layered corporate career path, strong performance is recognized and rewarded.
Location: North Metro, Minnesota Work Model: Onsite five days per week Travel: Occasional travel to other markets Compensation: Up to $95,000, based on experience Employment Type: Full-Time, Exempt
Position Overview
A growing, multi-state organization within the construction and exterior services industry is seeking a driven, highly resourceful Corporate Recruiter to support continued expansion across several geographic markets.
This role will own full-cycle recruiting across sales, operations, production, administrative, and leadership functions, with a significant focus on identifying commission-driven, field-based sales talent.
A core part of the company’s growth model involves representatives working directly within communities impacted by severe weather. These professionals build relationships with property owners, identify potential restoration needs, and guide customers through the inspection and restoration process. Recruiting individuals who can thrive in this highly entrepreneurial, door-to-door sales environment will be critical to success.
The ideal recruiter understands how to identify the confidence, resilience, competitiveness, communication skills, and self-motivation required for performance-based field sales. This person must be comfortable proactively creating candidate interest rather than relying primarily on inbound applicants.
Key Responsibilities
Full-Cycle Recruiting
Lead recruiting for sales, operations, production, administrative, and leadership positions across multiple markets.
Build consistent pipelines of commission-driven, door-to-door and field sales talent.
Proactively source candidates through LinkedIn, job boards, referrals, networking, social media, community relationships, and direct outreach.
Conduct phone screens and structured interviews to evaluate motivation, communication skills, competitiveness, resilience, coachability, and cultural alignment.
Coordinate interviews, candidate communication, offers, pre-employment requirements, and onboarding handoffs.
Maintain accurate candidate records, recruiting activity, and pipeline reporting within the applicant tracking system.
Sales Talent Sourcing
Identify candidates from transferable backgrounds such as construction, home services, roofing, solar, telecommunications, pest control, insurance, automotive sales, athletics, hospitality, and other performance-driven environments.
Clearly communicate the opportunity, expectations, earning potential, and realities of commission-based, door-to-door sales.
Evaluate whether candidates have the discipline and resilience to generate business, manage rejection, build trust quickly, and remain productive in an independent field environment.
Develop creative sourcing strategies to reach passive candidates who may not have previously considered the industry.
Multi-State Growth Partnership
Partner closely with company leadership to understand current and anticipated hiring needs across established and developing markets.
Respond quickly to changing hiring demands driven by company growth, geographic expansion, seasonal business needs, and severe weather activity.
Build talent pipelines before openings become urgent.
Adjust recruiting strategies based on local labor markets and the cultural nuances of each operating location.
Occasionally travel to other markets to learn the business, build relationships with local leaders, and better understand the characteristics needed for success within each team.
Hiring Manager and Candidate Experience
Build trusted relationships with hiring leaders and establish a clear understanding of each position and candidate profile.
Provide market feedback regarding candidate availability, compensation, competitors, and recruiting challenges.
Maintain proactive, timely communication with candidates and hiring managers throughout the process.
Represent the organization professionally and authentically in every candidate interaction.
Support a structured, consistent, and efficient selection process.
Track recruiting outcomes, including candidate flow, sourcing effectiveness, time to fill, offer acceptance, and early retention.
Qualifications
Required
3-5 years of full-cycle recruiting experience in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment.
Experience recruiting sales professionals, ideally within commission-driven, outside, field-based, or door-to-door environments.
Strong interviewing skills and the ability to assess motivation, resilience, competitiveness, and transferable potential.
Excellent communication, relationship-building, organization, and follow-through.
Ability to manage multiple openings, markets, and shifting priorities simultaneously.
Comfort working in an onsite, highly collaborative environment five days per week.
Ability to travel occasionally to company locations in other states.
Preferred
Recruiting experience within construction, exterior services, home services, restoration, solar, insurance, telecommunications, or a similar industry.
Experience supporting hiring across multiple states or geographically dispersed markets.
Familiarity with applicant tracking systems, LinkedIn Recruiter, job boards, and modern sourcing tools.
Experience building recruiting processes, referral programs, talent pipelines, or employer-branding initiatives within a growing organization.
The Right Fit
The right person for this opportunity is proactive, persuasive, competitive, and energized by finding talent others may overlook. You enjoy initiating conversations, building relationships, and creating interest in an opportunity rather than waiting for candidates to apply.
You also understand that successful door-to-door sales professionals require a unique combination of confidence, resilience, discipline, trustworthiness, and personal drive. You know how to assess those qualities and connect strong candidates with an opportunity where their effort can directly influence their success.
This is a visible, high-impact role for a recruiter who wants to work closely with leadership, help strengthen the company’s talent strategy, and directly support the continued growth of a multi-state organization.
This is an exciting opportunity for an accomplished Finance & Accounting executive to join a high-growth, privately held organization at a pivotal point in its evolution. With strong year-over-year growth, continued investment in systems and infrastructure, and acquisitions on the horizon, the organization is looking for a strategic, hands-on leader who can help build and scale the finance function for its next chapter.
Reporting directly to the CFO, the Vice President of Finance & Accounting will serve as a key business partner while providing leadership across accounting, controllership, FP&A, business performance, and decision support. This individual will lead and develop an established team, strengthen the connection between Finance and Accounting, and help transform financial and operational information into meaningful insights that drive better business decisions.
This is not a role focused solely on reporting the numbers. The right person will bring a strong accounting foundation along with the curiosity, commercial mindset, and executive presence to understand what is driving the business, challenge assumptions, identify opportunities, and help shape where the organization goes next.
A manufacturing and converting shop in Chicago is seeking a hands-on Production Supervisor to lead its second-shift operation. This individual will oversee approximately 12 employees and play a central role in strengthening daily execution, accountability and continuous improvement across a lean manufacturing environment.
The opportunity is well suited to a floor-oriented leader who enjoys solving problems directly rather than managing from an office.
An established global manufacturer of industrial automation and motion-control products is adding a Production Planner to its Shakopee operation. This is a highly visible, onsite position working directly with operations, purchasing, suppliers, and production to translate demand into executable manufacturing schedules.
The position is open to both early-career candidates and recent graduates with relevant internships. Engineering graduates interested in building a career on the operations/supply-chain side of manufacturing are particularly encouraged to apply.
This is an onsite position, where you will gain valuable skills in supply chain, production planning, and procurement and develop a practical understanding of the company’s products, material flow, and manufacturing processes
A privately owned Minnesota-based steel service center is launching its first internal IT leadership function and is seeking an experienced, hands-on Director of IT to help modernize the business and establish its technology roadmap.
With approximately $500M in revenue, ~200 employees and three locations across the Midwest and South, the company has significant resources, continued expansion plans and a long-standing reputation for stability. The organization is actively investing in equipment, facilities and people—and now wants technology to become a strategic advantage.
This is not a traditional “keep the lights on” IT role. The successful leader will:
Partner with an established outsourced IT provider while bringing internal technology leadership to the business
Lead an upcoming ERP modernization
Evaluate and implement AI, automation and business software opportunities
Strengthen cybersecurity practices and technology governance
Assess infrastructure, servers, communications and hardware
Identify opportunities to improve CRM, manufacturing equipment and operational systems
Serve as a trusted technology advisor to operations and executive leadership
Ideal background: 7+ years of progressive IT experience, strong infrastructure/software knowledge, cybersecurity awareness, business systems/ERP experience and demonstrated success implementing technology improvements.
*** Must be local to Minnesota and no sponsorship available ***
SkyWater Search Partners is partnering with a growing, PE-backed manufacturing company on a newly created Director of Finance opportunity.
Reporting directly to the CFO, this person will lead FP&A and help continue to build out the function as the company grows. This is a highly visible role with exposure to the executive leadership team and private equity sponsor.
They are looking for someone who can dig into the numbers, understand what is happening across the business and communicate the story behind the results. This person needs to be comfortable operating at both a strategic and hands-on level, from building models and working through detailed analysis to presenting to senior leadership.
Our client, a privately-held, successful manufacturing organization with multiple facilities, is seeking an experienced VP of Human Resources to join their executive leadership team. This role is based in the Chicago area.
This is a high-impact, hands-on leadership role for someone who thrives in a fast-moving, multi-site manufacturing environment. The successful candidate will partner closely with senior operations leadership and have direct visibility with ownership, playing a key role in shaping the organization’s people strategy as the business continues to grow.
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