SkyWater has partnered with a manufacturing company in the Twin Cities area to support operations on their Business Systems Team. This is a senior-level position and offers great visibility, ownership, and the opportunity for advancement on a growing team.
Duties will include a combination of integration, enhancement and reporting projects as well as business user support.
Candidates should bring at least 5 years of experience in a manufacturing environment and must reside in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. This position will be on-site 4 days per-week.
If you’re the kind of HR professional who loves rolling up your sleeves, building relationships on the production floor, and owning the full employee experience from hire to retire, this opportunity was built for you.
We’re partnering with a long-time client, a highly respected, growth-oriented manufacturer, to help identify an HR Manager who will serve as the dedicated HR leader for one of its production facilities in Central Illinois This is an outstanding opportunity for a Senior HR Generalist ready to step into their first HR Manager title, or an experienced HR Manager who still enjoys being deeply involved in the day-to-day work of Human Resources.
This is not a role where HR sits on the sidelines. You’ll be the trusted resource for approximately 160-170 employees and their leaders, balancing employee advocacy with business partnership while ensuring the operation runs smoothly every day.
What You’ll Do
You’ll own the full spectrum of site Human Resources responsibilities, including:
Lead full-cycle recruiting for hourly and salaried positions
Coordinate interviews, prepare offers, and manage onboarding from acceptance through orientation
Serve as the primary HR resource for employees and leaders throughout the employee lifecycle
Provide guidance on employee relations, coaching managers through employee issues while partnering on appropriate solutions
Support performance management, policy interpretation, investigations, and compliance
Administer HR processes, employee documentation, recordkeeping, and reporting
Assist employees with benefits questions and coordinate with corporate resources and vendors
Partner with operations leaders to support workforce planning, engagement, and retention initiatives
Support training and onboarding activities while additional organizational resources continue to evolve
Ensure HR practices remain compliant with employment laws, company policies, and manufacturing best practices
What Makes Someone Successful Here
The most successful person in this role won’t necessarily be the one with the longest resume; they’ll be someone who genuinely enjoys the operational side of HR.
You’ll thrive if you:
Enjoy balancing recruiting, employee relations, HR administration, and daily problem-solving
Take pride in staying organized and following through on commitments
Build trust easily with both production employees and leaders
Like working independently while having a larger HR team available for partnership and support
Are comfortable making decisions, prioritizing competing needs, and owning your work
Appreciate spending time where the business happens, on the manufacturing floor with employees, and behind your desk managing everything administrative.
What We’re Looking For
Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or related field (or equivalent experience)
Progressive Human Resources experience in a manufacturing, distribution, or industrial environment
Strong HR Generalist experience across recruiting, employee relations, benefits, onboarding, compliance, and HR administration
Working knowledge of employment law and HR best practices
Strong communication, organization, and relationship-building skills
Ability to work onsite full-time in Central Illinois
SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, or SPHR certifications are welcomed but not required.
Why This Opportunity?
You’ll join a financially strong, values-driven manufacturing organization that believes its people are its competitive advantage. While you’ll be the dedicated HR leader for your location, you’ll also be supported by an experienced corporate HR team that values collaboration, responsiveness, and doing what’s right for employees.
This is a highly visible role with meaningful impact, significant autonomy, and the opportunity to build credibility as a trusted business partner while developing your career within a growing organization.
If you’re looking for an HR role where you can make a difference every day, not just through strategy, but through execution, relationships, and follow-through, we’d love to start a conversation.
Senior Compensation Analyst / Total Rewards Analyst
West Metro, MN
Are you the kind of compensation professional who enjoys solving business problems, not just administering programs?
Our client is a market-leading, privately held organization with an exceptional culture, strong financial performance, and a genuine commitment to investing in its people. As the company continues to grow, they’re creating a strategic individual contributor role that will partner directly with senior HR leadership to shape compensation strategy while influencing the future of Total Rewards.
If you enjoy asking questions, analyzing data, benchmarking against the market, and bringing thoughtful recommendations that drive business decisions, this is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact.
What You’ll Do
Compensation will be the primary focus of this role, with opportunities to broaden your expertise across Total Rewards.
You’ll partner with senior leadership to:
Lead compensation benchmarking, market pricing, and salary structure analysis
Develop compensation recommendations for new hires, promotions, equity adjustments, and organizational changes
Analyze market trends and ensure competitive, equitable pay practices
Design and administer incentive compensation programs, including sales incentive plans, bonus programs, and profit-sharing initiatives
Build business cases and present data-driven recommendations that influence organizational decisions
Support annual compensation planning and salary review processes
Partner with Finance, HR, and business leaders to align compensation programs with business strategy
Help support benefits administration and vendor partnerships while contributing ideas that enhance employee well-being and thoughtfully manage costs
Leverage analytics, external market intelligence, and industry best practices to continuously improve Total Rewards programs
What We’re Looking For
We’re open to two primary backgrounds:
Our Ideal Profile
A Senior Compensation Analyst ready to take the next step into broader compensation strategy while expanding exposure to benefits and Total Rewards.
Also Worth Considering
An experienced HR Manager or HR Business Partner from a mid-sized organization who has developed significant compensation and benefits expertise and is looking to specialize more deeply in Total Rewards.
Regardless of title, you’ll likely bring:
Strong experience in compensation analysis, market benchmarking, and salary administration
Experience supporting incentive compensation, bonus, commission, or sales compensation programs
Excellent analytical and financial acumen with advanced Excel skills
Confidence translating complex data into practical business recommendations
Curiosity, initiative, and a consultative approach to problem-solving
Strong relationship-building and communication skills across all levels of an organization
Experience supporting benefits programs is highly valued
Value being onsite every day to build trust and collaboration
Why This Opportunity Stands Out
This isn’t a role where you’ll simply maintain existing programs.
You’ll have the opportunity to:
Influence compensation strategy across the organization
Partner directly with an experienced Total Rewards leader who values collaboration and fresh ideas
Expand your expertise beyond compensation into broader Total Rewards
Work for a financially strong, people-first organization with an outstanding reputation
Join a culture that values continuous improvement, innovation, and long-term employee investment
Position Highlights
Target compensation: Approximately $150,000 base (depending on experience)
Strategic individual contributor role (no direct reports)
Hybrid collaboration with an expectation of 4–5 days per week onsite West of the Twin Cities
Comprehensive benefits package
Opportunity for long-term career growth within a highly respected organization
If you’re energized by solving compensation challenges, influencing business decisions with data, and helping build best-in-class Total Rewards programs, we’d love to connect.
Our client, a growing logistics services provider, is seeking a Sr. Operations Manager to lead a single-site fulfillment operation within a technology-enabled and increasingly automated warehouse environment.
This leader will oversee daily warehouse execution while improving productivity, service, inventory accuracy, labor performance, and operational scalability. The ideal candidate is a hands-on, strategic operations leader who can strengthen the team, improve warehouse flow, and leverage systems and automation to support continued growth.
SkyWater has partnered with a mid-sized manufacturer and a regulated, global footprint that is hiring a senior contributor to sit inside its Corporate and Operations Applications team, focused on Finance. This is not a requirements-only role. You will own small to mid-size Finance projects from initiation through hypercare, including solution selection, risk management, and stakeholder communication, while also functioning as the go-to resource for the Finance business users on the company’s ERP environment.
You would be a key voice in how the business interacts with its ERP system, and you need to be comfortable operating in ambiguity rather than needing a locked roadmap on day one.
What’s non-negotiable: five or more years as a business analyst working in ERP with a Finance concentration. Project management experience running full project lifecycles is required, not preferred.
Onsite 3 to 4 days a week in the Twin Cities area.
This is a salaried position complete with benefits & bonus. Must be local to MN, and cannot require sponsorship.
Skywater is seeking a Senior Marine/Waterfront Structural Engineer to support a growing portfolio of ports, harbors, shoreline, and environmental infrastructure projects with a national firm.
This is a hands-on, technical leadership position. You will lead structural analysis and design, develop and review calculations, plans, and specifications, support constructability and cost-estimating efforts, and coordinate with project managers and multidisciplinary teams
Current projects include marine terminals, bulkheads, wharves, docks, shoreline stabilization, retaining structures, rehabilitation projects, inspections, and infrastructure located within contaminated-sediment remediation areas.
This is a remote position but candidates must have the ability to occasionally travel to work sites or closest office locations.
HR Generalist – College Recruiting & Safety Focus Saint Paul, MN (Hybrid) $75,000 – $85,000(flexible to ~$90K for the right candidate)
Our client, a growing distribution company with ~250 employees/contractors across seven states, is adding an HR Generalist to their team. This is a hands-on, high-visibility role reporting directly to the HR leader. You’ll get exposure to nearly every facet of HR while owning two key programs: college recruiting and safety.
The Role This is roughly 70% tactical HR generalist work, 30% program ownership. You won’t be the HR business partner for senior leadership, but you’ll have real autonomy over a well-established college recruiting pipeline and the safety program, with meaningful room to grow into additional areas (benefits strategy, culture initiatives, and more) as you show interest and aptitude.
What You’ll Own:
A well-established rotational entry-level sales pipeline program (multiple hires per year): partnering with engineering schools across the Upper Midwest, attending career fairs, and building lasting relationships that create a real talent pipeline (not just a fair-attendance calendar)
Safety program leadership: managing workers’ comp, coordinating OSHA/insurance inspections, biannual training, and first responder certification. Low-risk distribution environment, well-supported by a dedicated safety team.
SkyWater is partnering with a growing utility based in the Twin Cities metro who’s looking to hire a Construction Manager for their team! Our client is a smaller, mission-driven utility that owns & operates the underground water distribution infrastructure serving St. Paul & Minneapolis. The Construction Manager will provide project management for new construction, repair, and upgrade projects across the distribution system, while also leading a group of trade workers. We’re looking for someone with several years of experience leading a team in utility environment (pipeline, water/sewer, electrical, etc.) and someone who enjoys working in a small company environment where they can make a big impact. Our client is offering a strong compensation package (generous base + incentive bonus program), excellent benefits, and a close-knit company culture where employees can make a difference & work directly with company leadership.
.The Warehouse Manager is responsible for leading day-to-day operations, including warehouse execution, labor performance, SOP creation, workflow optimization, packaging improvement, equipment maintenance, safety, and overall facility efficiency. This role drives continuous improvement and accountability across operations to support growth and operational efficiency.
A nationally recognized commercial real estate practice is seeking an associate with at least two years of experience to join its Minneapolis office. The practice represents developers, institutional investors, lenders, REITs, private equity funds, hospitality companies, and other sophisticated clients in complex transactions throughout the United States.
Qualifications:
Active Minnesota attorney license required
Minimum two years of experience in complex commercial real estate transactions
Experience in purchase and sale, financing, and leasing; development and finance experience also welcome
Desirable experience includes acquisitions and dispositions, commercial leasing, real estate finance, title and survey matters, joint ventures, and related transactional work
Excellent academic credentials and strong research, writing, analytical, organizational, and communication skills
Judicial clerkship experience welcomed
Role: Associates will work directly with partners and clients with meaningful responsibility for drafting and negotiating transaction documents, managing due diligence, coordinating closings, and advising clients throughout the transaction process. The practice offers significant mentoring, training, and professional development opportunities. Associates collaborate across offices on sophisticated transactions nationwide and are encouraged to develop client relationships and assume progressive lead responsibility.
If you are interested in learning more, please apply or reach out to Lauren Swartout directly at lswartout@skywatersearch.com.
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