SkyWater is excited to be partnering with a well-established, family-owned company that truly treats its people like family. They’ve built a strong reputation for doing things the right way, with integrity, teamwork, and a genuine commitment to their employees’ success.
They’re adding a Senior Corporate Accountant to their team, and it’s a great opportunity for someone who loves variety in their work, enjoys collaborating across teams, and thrives in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment. If you’re looking for a stable company with strong leadership, great values, and a place where your work really matters, this one’s worth a closer look.
Skywater Search Partners is partnering with a leading manufacturer seeking a proven Plant Manager to lead a multi-shift operation of 400+ employees and drive production, continuous improvement, delivery, safety, quality, delivery, and cost initiatives in a high volume manufacturing setting. This individual will be a hands-on, strategic leader with the capability to advance into higher operational leadership roles in the future.
Key Responsibilities
Lead and develop a high-performing team of direct and indirect reports across production, maintenance, and CI functions.
Drive a culture of safety, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Implement and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to improve operational visibility and results.
Collaborate across engineering, quality, and supply chain in a matrix environment to align goals and processes.
Manage P&L performance ($150M+), optimizing labor, materials, and expenses to meet budget targets.
Lead transformation from reactive to proactive operations, building systemic consistency and process discipline.
Serve as a strategic business partner with potential to assume broader leadership responsibilities over time.
Qualifications
8+ years of manufacturing leadership experience, including multi-shift plant management.
Background in industrial engineering, electro-mechanical or mechanical parts, and high-volume manufacturing preferred.
Experience leading leaders, not just direct production teams.
Strong grasp of Lean, CI, and KPI-based management systems.
Excellent communication, collaboration, and team-development skills.
SkyWater Search Partners has teamed up with a well-established technology consulting firm to identify a Senior level User Experience/ UX Designer for a flagship project with one of the largest banks in the U.S. They are seeking a UX Designer who thrives in complex, data-heavy environments and has experience shaping intuitive, visually compelling enterprise applications. You’ll work closely with engineers, product owners, and stakeholders to bring a modern, elegant user experience to a next-generation financial analytics platform.
This position will be onsite for the duration of the project (through 2025), then turn info a fully remote role working on other enterprise projects – no bench time!
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!
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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