Site Manager

  • Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #53086

SkyWater is partnering with a growing engineering firm who’s looking to hire a Site Manager to lead their field operations! In this role, you’ll provide strategic leadership and hands-on oversight of the fabrication, assembly, delivery, installation, commissioning, and maintenance of electromechanical equipment for custom, one-of-a-kind projects. Our client is a fast-growing small business that has built a strong reputation for engineering excellence, designing custom mechanization solutions for iconic structures across industries like aerospace, entertainment, observatories, etc. This role can be based anywhere in the United States but comes with significant travel to job sites across the US (up to 90%).They’re offering a competitive base salary, excellent benefits, and a collaborative culture where your work truly makes an impact on their growing business! 

Senior Electrical Controls Engineer

  • Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #53084

SkyWater is partnering with a growing engineering firm in the Twin Cities who’s looking to hire a Senior Electrical Controls Engineer for their team! This is a great opportunity for an experienced electrical or controls engineer who’s ready to grow into a people leadership role in the future. In this position, you’d start as an individual contributor driving the design and execution of electrical control systems, with a clear development path toward eventually stepping into an Electrical Engineering Manager position. Our client is a small business that has built a strong reputation for engineering excellence, designing custom mechanization and controls solutions for large, custom structures across industries like aerospace, entertainment, observatories, etc. They’re offering a strong base salary, excellent benefits, and a collaborative culture where your work truly makes an impact on their growing business! 

Accounting Manager

  • Location: Shoreview, Minnesota
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #53081

We are partnering with a growing manufacturing company in the north metro to hire an Accounting Manager to lead the accounting function and drive process improvement across a growing, fast-moving operation.

If interested in being considered, please apply today

Influencer & Community Manager

  • Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Remote: Remote
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #53078

Influencer & Community Manager

We’re partnering with a leading toy and collectibles brand to find an Influencer & Community Manager who will help shape the way the brand connects with creators, fans, and enthusiast communities!

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who thrives at the intersection of influencer marketing, community, fandom, and brand. The right person will be equally comfortable thinking strategically about the big picture and rolling up their sleeves to execute. You’ll join a small but mighty marketing team where collaboration, adaptability, and a true player-coach mindset are essential.

What You’ll Do

As the Influencer & Community Manager, you’ll serve as a key bridge between the brand, content creators, and its passionate collector community. You’ll lead and grow influencer and affiliate programs, build meaningful creator partnerships, monitor community sentiment, and help turn customer feedback and emerging trends into actionable insights.

You’ll help expand an existing influencer program while identifying new opportunities across gaming, anime, collectibles, and other enthusiast communities. This is a highly cross-functional role that will partner closely with marketing, customer service, and product teams.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute influencer, creator, and community engagement strategies.

  • Build, manage, and grow relationships with content creators, influencers, affiliates, and community partners.

  • Lead the day-to-day administration of influencer and affiliate programs, including creator records, agreements, tracking, deliverables, compliance, and payment coordination.

  • Identify opportunities to expand the brand’s presence within gaming, anime, collectibles, and other enthusiast-driven communities.

  • Track influencer performance, affiliate revenue, engagement, and overall program effectiveness.

  • Serve as a primary voice across social and community channels, engaging with comments, questions, and reviews while partnering with customer service on escalations.

  • Monitor brand sentiment, reputation, and emerging conversations across social platforms, reviews, forums, and community channels.

  • Act as the voice of the collector by identifying trends, feedback, and opportunities that can inform customer experience and marketing strategy.

  • Partner cross-functionally to translate community insights into meaningful action.

  • Bring both strategic thinking and hands-on execution to the role — helping shape the direction of the program while staying deeply involved in the day-to-day work.

What We’re Looking For

  • 5+ years of experience in influencer marketing, affiliate marketing, community management, or a related discipline.

  • Experience building and managing influencer partnerships and creator relationships.

  • Experience working on a small, high-performing team where you’ve had the opportunity to own both strategy and execution.

  • A true player-coach mindset — someone who enjoys thinking big while also getting into the details and making things happen.

  • Strong experience with social and community channels, including platforms such as Reddit, Meta, X, YouTube, Google Business, and Discord.

  • Experience within ecommerce, retail, gaming, collectibles, anime, hobby, or other enthusiast-focused industries is preferred.

  • Experience with influencer management tools such as Sprout or Klear is a plus.

  • Exceptional relationship-building, communication, and networking skills.

  • Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously.

  • A highly collaborative approach with the ability to work effectively across internal teams and external partners.

  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Location

The ideal candidate will be based in Minnesota or Wisconsin and able to travel occasionally to the company’s Somerset, Wisconsin headquarters.

Benefits

  • Health insurance

  • Employee Assistance Program

  • Employee product discount

  • 401(k) retirement program with employer match

  • Paid holidays and paid time off

Estimator

  • Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #53077

We’re excited to partner with a leading independent distributor of commercial building materials to help them find an Estimator to its Minneapolis team. This is an opportunity to step into a highly visible position combining material estimating, client development, sales, and project coordination.

The organization is a growing, family-owned business with employees across multiple Midwest locations. Its specialties business serves general contractors, subcontractors, building owners, and other commercial construction customers.

Sales Representative

  • Location: Des Moines, Iowa
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #53075

We’re looking for a Sales Representative to join a 50+ year old, family-owned, independent building materials distributor with a rock-solid reputation across the Midwest commercial construction market. Based out of Des Moines, this role walks into an established book of business and territory covering the Cedar Rapids and Quad Cities corridor, so you’re not starting from zero.

This is a true full sales cycle role. You’ll quote with pricing autonomy, manage special-order material and project timelines, and build long-term relationships with repeat clients you’ll talk to multiple times a week. If you’re the type who picks up the phone to uncover the next opportunity instead of waiting for it to land in your inbox, this is for you.

Compensation is base plus uncapped commission, with a target of $100K-$150K in year 1 and real upside beyond that as you grow your book ($250k+), plus a strong training and onboarding runway to get you there.

This is an in-office role in Des Moines, though a Quad Cities-based hire is highly worth consideration given the growth push into that market.

Multi-Site Plant Manager

  • Location: Alexandria, Minnesota
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #53071

We are partnering with a metal fab client seeking a Plant Manager to lead two sites in MN. These facilities are entering a significant period of growth, so this person will need to be comfortable with the pace of scaling the sites quickly.

This leader will oversee daily operations across both locations while developing the people, processes and operating plans needed to support continued growth.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead manufacturing operations across both facilities
  • Build plans around capacity, staffing, scheduling and backlog
  • Drive safety, quality, delivery and productivity
  • Develop supervisors and strengthen accountability throughout the organization
  • Maintain a visible, hands-on presence with employees
  • Partner closely with engineering, quality, sales and executive leadership
  • Support major customer launches, capital investments and process improvements

Qualifications:

  • Manufacturing leadership experience in metal fabrication or a closely related environment
  • Knowledge of processes such as laser cutting, forming, welding, machining, finishing or assembly
  • Experience leading supervisors and cross-functional teams
  • Strong planning, analytical and communication skills
  • Demonstrated success leading growth, operational change or backlog recovery
  • Positive, credible and hands-on leadership style

Director of IT (Minnesota-based)

  • Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #53070

SkyWater has partnered with a national manufacturer headquartered in the Twin Cities, and growing through ongoing acquisition. This role owns infrastructure and support for the organization, reporting directly to the VP of IT and leading a team across network, server, and helpdesk functions. The company has roughly tripled in size over the past several years and continues to acquire, which means the infrastructure function is under real pressure to mature. This is a build-and-mature role, not a maintenance seat, and it comes with direct access to the VP of IT and executive leadership, along with real budget and technical ownership.

Location is the Twin Cities, with an onsite expectation of 3 to 5 days a week depending on team needs. Compensation is competitive with base and bonus, commensurate with experience.

To be considered, reach out directly to Zac Kallas at SkyWater Search Partners.

Director of Quality

  • Location: Sioux Falls, South Dakota
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #53069

SkyWater is partnering with a manufacturer based in the Sioux Falls area who’s looking to hire a Director of Quality for their team! Our client is privately held, they’ve been in business over 45 years, they have a global presence, and they have over 400 employees across their organization. They’re looking for a hands-on Quality leader who can own the Quality Management System at the company’s main facility while also partnering with their global plants to align standards & best practices. The Director of Quality will lead a team of 4 engineers and 1 technician, while setting the direction of the quality department, working directly with customers on quality issues, and working closely with cross-functional leaders & the executive team on strategic initiatives. It’s an exciting opportunity for someone who wants a high-visibility role where you can drive quality strategy while staying close to the manufacturing floor. Our client is offering a strong compensation package (base + bonus potential), comprehensive benefits package, and the opportunity to lead quality for a well-established, growing manufacturer serving some of the world’s top brands! 

Maintenance & Facilities Manager

  • Location: Sioux Falls, South Dakota
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #53068

SkyWater is partnering with a privately held manufacturer based in the Sioux Falls area who’s looking to hire a Maintenance & Facilities Manager for their team! Our client has been in business almost 50 years, they have operations across the globe and they primarily serve the agricultural, construction, & automotive sectors. This role is open due to a recent promotion and will work closely with the Plant Manager to make a big impact on the plant. The Maintenance & Facilities Manager will lead a team of 12 technicians and will own equipment reliability, develop preventive maintenance plans, troubleshoot equipment, and support capital equipment projects. Our client is offering a strong compensation package and full benefits, along with the opportunity to lead a growing maintenance function at a well-established, growing manufacturer in South Dakota! 

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