SkyWater is partnering with an established manufacturing organization in the north metro to hire a Warehouse Supervisor. Following a consolidation of multiple facilities into one operation, the company is focused on strengthening its processes, developing its workforce, and improving overall efficiency.
This position will lead approximately 8–12 employees across shipping, receiving, inventory control, and warehouse operations. The ideal candidate is a hands-on leader who enjoys working directly with employees, solving problems, and helping build a stronger team.
This is a hands-on applications role for someone who understands the practical side of industrial liquid painting and can evaluate, troubleshoot, and improve coating results.
The position will own customer testing and demonstrations in an applications lab environment, translating real manufacturing requirements into equipment setups and process parameters. The company is also investing in an expanded applications lab, giving this individual an opportunity to influence how the space and processes are developed.
The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with industrial liquid coatings, has experience in a paint booth, understands how to evaluate finish quality and troubleshoot application issues, and is comfortable working directly with customers in a practical lab environment.
We’ve been engaged by a specialty manufacturer to find it’s first Director of Product & Marketing. They are a global leader in their specialty market, serving distributors and customers worldwide. It’s growing nearly 15% this year and aiming for 20% annually. Product management and marketing are the next chapter of the transformation.
This newly created role reports directly to the President. You’ll own product strategy, portfolio performance, and marketing across every product line, with a real seat at the leadership table and no layers of bureaucracy. Your job is to keep product decisions and marketing working together so both drive profitable growth and new markets.
What you’ll do
Build and lead the team. You’ll lead and develop the Product Management and Marketing teams, including hiring two product managers. You’ll set clear priorities, build skills, and hold people accountable through a values-based performance system.
Own the portfolio. You’ll set the roadmap, prioritization, positioning, pricing, and margins. You’ll make the calls on launches and enhancements, and on which products to retire.
Grow the brand. You’ll build marketing strategies that strengthen the brand, win market share, generate demand, and make every launch land.
Make decisions with insight. You’ll turn customer feedback, market intelligence, competitive moves, and financial results into clear choices.
Tell the story. You’ll turn technical value into clear, compelling messages for customers, distributors, and the sales team.
Work across the company. You’ll partner with Sales, Strategic Growth, Innovation, R&D, Regulatory, Operations, and Supply Chain on launches, market expansion, and growth opportunities.
Build processes that last. You’ll create repeatable ways of planning, launching, and measuring, so good work becomes how the company operates.
What you bring
A bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, Engineering, Chemistry, or a related field
Leadership experience in product management, marketing, commercialization, or business development in a manufacturing, industrial, or technical environment
Strong business and financial skills, including pricing, margins, performance measurement, and investment tradeoffs
Experience with technical products, industrial markets, and distributor channels is a strong plus
Who thrives here
A strategic thinker who’s also hands-on. Someone who speaks up, defends their point of view, and then delivers. Someone who gets energized by developing people and believes in the company’s values: Leadership, Strategy, Integrity, Innovation, and Collaboration. The culture is in person, and the best conversations happen around the table.
A privately owned Minnesota-based organization 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 ***
Location: Open to remote talent – periodic travel to Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN Compensation: Total compensation of $350,000 – $500,000
SkyWater is thrilled to be partnering with a growing financial institution looking for an experienced Chief Financial Officer to serve as its senior financial leader and a key member of the executive leadership team. Reporting directly to the CEO, this highly visible role will lead the finance organization and serve as a strategic partner to executive leadership, ownership, and the Board.
The CFO will play an important role in supporting the organization’s next phase of growth, with responsibility for strengthening capital planning, liquidity and balance-sheet management, forecasting, performance analytics, and business-line profitability. This leader will also help modernize the finance function, leveraging technology, automation, data, and AI-assisted tools to create more forward-looking financial insights and improve decision-making.
The organization operates across traditional consumer and commercial banking while also offering a broader range of specialized and technology-enabled financial products and services. This creates a level of complexity beyond that of a traditional community bank and requires a CFO who can balance strong financial discipline with an entrepreneurial, growth-oriented mindset.
The ideal candidate is a seasoned banking finance executive with deep technical expertise, experience operating within a larger or complex financial institution, and a proven ability to build and lead high-performing teams. This individual will be proactive, solutions-oriented, and comfortable partnering across the organization to help the business scale responsibly.
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.
Are you a data-driven problem solver who loves turning complex operational challenges into clear, actionable insights? We’re looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to drive workforce strategy and operational analytics across customer service and operational teams.
In this role, you’ll connect finance, operations, and workforce planning to help leaders answer questions like: Where are the bottlenecks? Are staffing, process, or productivity issues slowing us down? How can we optimize resources to improve service and revenue?
Only candidates located in Minnesota will be considered.
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