Electrical Engineering Manager

  • Location: Mankato, Minnesota
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #51119

We are seeking an experienced Electrical Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineers in the design and development of innovative consumer electronic products. This role combines hands-on engineering expertise with strategic leadership, ensuring projects are completed on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards. The ideal candidate brings both technical depth in electrical/electronic systems and proven ability to guide teams through the full product development lifecycle.

Python Developer (Onsite – Columbus)

  • Location: Columbus, New Jersey
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #51084

SkyWater Search Partners has teamed up with a well-established technology consulting firm to identify a Python Developer for a flagship project with one of the largest banks in the U.S. Leveraging Python, Spark, GCP, APIs, and containerized environments (GKE).

This is a high-visibility, long-term project with continuous opportunities to transition to other enterprise initiatives afterward — no bench time.

This position will be full time + onsite for the duration of the project (through 2025), then turn info a fully remote role working on other enterprise projects – no bench time! 

**No Sponsorship Available**

Director of Manufacturing Operations (multi-site)

  • Location: St. Cloud, Minnesota
  • Remote: Remote
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #51040

We’re partnering with a leading industrial equipment manufacturer to find a Director of Operations that will drive scalability, operational alignment, and leadership development across three manufacturing sites. This individual will guide a healthy, growing business through its next phase of expanding capacity, introducing new capabilities, and uniting three strong but independent sites under a shared vision

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, and Safety functions across sites
  • Build structure, processes, and metrics that enable scalable growth
  • Mentor and develop plant managers and functional leaders
  • Support ERP implementation and promote data-driven decision making
  • Lead expansion into new product categories via organic growth or acquisition
  • Drive cost and efficiency initiatives
  • Foster collaboration and shared culture

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of operations leadership in industrial/fabrication environments
  • Multi-site or large plant management experience is required
  • Proven record of scaling operations and leading transformation

Preferred Attributes

  • Hands-on, approachable leader who teaches and mentors
  • Confident with executives and credible with the plant floor
  • Comfortable driving change while maintaining collaborative culture
  • Excited to build systems and structure, not just maintain them

Business Development Manager-Contract Manufacturing

  • Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #51003

SkyWater is partnering with a leading Minneapolis-based contract manufacturing and commercial services company. This role blends strategic sales, account management, and advocacy for their impactful mission.

They’re hiring a Strategic Business Development & Client Growth Manager to drive revenue growth while building and maintaining strong client relationships. The ideal candidate has a strong ‘hunter’ mentality, ability to maintain strong relationships with an existing client base and proven ability to deliver results.

Ability to travel throughout the state of Minnesota, as well as Wisconsin and Iowa are required, with heaviest focus being near the Twin Cities and surrounding areas.
 

Account Executive – Life Sciences Software

  • Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Remote: Remote
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #50988

SkyWater has been retained on a fully remote Account Executive position for a fast-growing, leading provider of SaaS-based electronic Quality Management System software. 

For over 20+ years the firm has provided medical device and biopharmaceutical manufacturers l with solutions to automate compliance and streamline their business. They are highly respected in their industry for their products and top notch customer service. They’re targeting someone with a strong sales background in eQMS to manage and sell into key accounts on a national scale. 

This  Account Executive will be an influential player and report directly to the CEO. The Account Executive is someone who is highly competitive, goal oriented, and can sustain high levels of activity via phone conversations, virtual meetings, and independent marketing strategies. This individual is responsible for all aspects of the sales process including identifying and reaching out to prospective clients, a consultative sales process including educating the client, and delivering solutions.

This is a remote position with complete ownership over a large sales territory. They offer a strong base salary, uncapped commissions, plan accelerators, and significant opportunity for career growth. 

*MUST have eQMS sales experience*

Salary Range- $160,000-$220,000 

Manager of Technical Accounting

  • Location: Greater Chicago Area
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #50987

I’m currently partnering with a global, publicly traded leader in the industrial/manufacturing space that is looking to add a Manager of External Financial Reporting & Technical Accounting to their growing finance team! This role is perfect for someone who wants to leverage their public accounting foundation (Big 4 or large public company experience) to step into a highly visible role with direct exposure to senior leadership.

? What makes this role exciting:
1. Lead the quarterly external reporting process and draft SEC filings
2. Partner cross-functionally with FP&A, Treasury, Tax, Investor Relations & Business Unit CFOs
3. Tackle complex technical accounting matters including acquisitions, divestitures, and new accounting standards
4. Opportunity to mentor and review junior team members
5. Chance to drive process improvements and use technology/tools to streamline reporting

? Ideal Background:
6–10 years of progressive accounting experience
CPA Required
Public accounting and/or large US public company experience

System Engineer

  • Location: Chicago, Illinois
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #50964

SkyWater Search has partnered with a growing trading technology firm that is looking to add a mid-level Systems Engineer to their team in downtown Chicago.

This role will work closely with senior engineers and leadership to build and scale the core infrastructure powering a high-performance trading platform. The environment is fast-paced, highly technical, and collaborative, with plenty of opportunities to solve complex challenges.

Compensation: $130K–$170K + bonus
Location: Chicago, IL (onsite)
Sponsorship not available

Azure Platform Operations Leader (MN-only)

  • Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #50962

SkyWater has partnered with a manufacturing company to find a dynamic and experienced  Infrastructure Platform Operations Manager to lead their Cloud Platform Team. This role is critical in shaping the future of our cloud strategy, ensuring our platforms are secure, scalable, reliable, and cost-effective—while aligning with broader organizational goals.

This company boasts a great culture, and long track record of growth. We are looking for someone local to the East Metro and willing to be onsite. 

Senior Accounting Manager

  • Location: Chicago
  • Remote: Remote
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #50953

I’m partnering with a good client of mine to fill a Senior Manager of Accounting role. It’s open due to an internal promotion, as is customary in this org as their entire accounting org is rotational in nature. We’ve done a ton of work with this CAO, having placed 10 people here in the last couple years. This role will report to someone who we placed earlier this year, and will have a primary M&A focus. This global organization has doubled in size the last decade and continues to grow organically and through acquisition. They are located downtown and offer an extremely flexible schedule.

Senior DevOps Engineer (Minnesota-hybrid)

  • Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Remote: Remote
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #50913

SkyWater has partnered with a client in the IT Services space; they consult with companies to help them become more Agile and to adopt & mature DevOps practices. This is a small company in the Western Twin Cities Metro with plans to double the size of their IT headcount in the 18 months.

In this role, you’ll be joining the team that helps their clients automate multi-clouds, multi-vendors, processes, applications and infrastructure. You will work with modern technologies like AWS, Kubernetes, Ansible and Terraform to name a few. We are looking for someone with not just the technical acumen and strong desire to learn new technology platforms, but someone that also has excellent soft skills. They want to give this individual the opportunity to direct the activities of other engineers as a project lead, as well.

This is great role for someone who enjoys being in a team-centric work environment, while also advancing in your own career.

This is a hybrid opportunity that requires someone onsite 1 day per week.

Cannot require sponsorship

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