We’re looking for an Americas Finance Leader to join a growing global manufacturing organization and help take its finance function to the next level. This is a hands-on, business-facing role where you’ll partner with site leaders and the GM to drive financial performance across three manufacturing locations, with ownership of budgeting, forecasting, KPIs, costing, inventory, and operational analysis. You’ll also lead and develop the site finance teams while helping build a more connected, strategic finance organization following a recent ERP implementation. The ideal candidate brings a mix of public accounting and hands-on manufacturing finance experience, strong communication skills, and the ability to dig into the numbers and help the business make better decisions. It’s a great opportunity for someone who enjoys being close to the business, making an impact, and growing with the organization.
Archives: Job Listings
Jobs Listings for the Matador Jobs Board.
Controller
I’m partnering with a high growth manufacturing business to help them find their first Controller. I’m looking candidates with manufacturing industry experience and hands on cost/inventory accounting. This is part of a larger organization, so plenty of opportunity for personal growth, including a clear path to become CFO.
HR Director
HR Director
Location: Burnsville, MN (on-site) Employment type: Full-time, exempt Compensation: $130,000 to $160,000 base, plus 15% annual bonus target and benefits
Our client is a privately held, growth-oriented company in Burnsville, MN. Led by a team with extensive public, private, and private equity roll-up experience, the company has professionalized its operations over the past three years and is now preparing for an acquisition that will take it from roughly 50 employees to well over 100, and from one union to potentially several.
The culture is transparent. Leaders roll up their sleeves, no one is above any task, and titles matter less than results.
The Opportunity
This is the company’s first dedicated HR hire. Today, HR is shared among the leadership team and supported by an outside consultant. You will build the HR function from the ground up as a team of one: owning employee relations and union relations, creating the systems and processes that don’t yet exist, and leading the HR side of integrating newly acquired employees. Strong union experience is a must have!
Key Responsibilities
- Union and labor relations: Interpret, administer, and enforce collective bargaining agreements; participate in contract negotiations; advise plant and operations managers on grievances, discipline, and contract compliance.
- Employee relations and coaching: Serve as a trusted thought partner to plant and operations leaders, coaching and mentoring supervisors and the hourly workforce beyond discipline and contract language.
- M&A and integration: Lead HR integration for a pending acquisition and future ones, including aligning benefits and healthcare programs, communicating with newly acquired employees, and helping them feel part of the team.
- Culture: Identify, document, and systematize what makes the existing culture work, and develop ways to measure it and extend it to new team members.
- Talent acquisition systems: Build a repeatable hiring process, replacing ad hoc hiring with a clear approach to sourcing, interviewing, and offers.
- Onboarding and offboarding: Own the end-to-end process, including compliant documentation and record retention, so every new hire and departure is handled consistently.
- Compliance: Ensure compliance with Minnesota and federal employment law.
- Performance management: Design and own a modern program to replace a legacy system that hasn’t been used in years: fair, simple, and consistently applied, and workable for salaried and hourly, union and non-union employees.
- Build the function: Identify gaps and blind spots and set priorities for the HR roadmap as the company grows.
Required Qualifications
- Significant HR experience in a unionized environment, including deciphering, administering, and negotiating CBAs
- Experience with HR acquisition due diligence and integration
- Strong working knowledge of Minnesota employment law
- Proven ability to operate as a hands-on HR leader without a team: willing to build processes and systems and handle day-to-day work personally
- Credibility and the ability to connect with everyone from executives to blue-collar and field employees
- Strategic HR aptitude, with the confidence to coach leaders and make tough calls when needed
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in manufacturing, construction, aggregates, or another industrial setting
- Experience in a private equity-backed or high-growth organization
- Experience with UKG or similar HRIS and payroll platforms
- Prior experience as the first or only HR professional at a company
Who Will Thrive Here
- A builder who sees an empty function as an opportunity, not a burden
- Direct, down-to-earth, and comfortable in a blunt, transparent culture; not stuffy or corporate
- Emotionally intelligent, able to understand the culture before recommending changes
- Self-sufficient and able to hit the ground running
- Willing to earn influence through results rather than title
Onsite in Burnsville
Director of Operations
We’re looking for a Director of Operations to oversee production, quality, maintenance, sanitation, planning, packaging, and warehouse/logistics for a growing food manufacturer in Milwaukee. The leader needs to be hands-on and technically engaged, with strong people leadership skill and prior food manufacturing site leadership experience.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead plant operations across production, ingredient preparation, processing, packaging, production planning, QA, sanitation, maintenance, and finished-goods warehousing.
- Build a visible, people-first leadership presence through plant walks, meetings, coaching, performance management, and clear communication with employees and managers.
- Maintain food safety and quality systems, including HACCP, SQF, SOPs, sanitation, customer requirements, and regulatory compliance.
- Manage employee safety and OSHA requirements; support incident reduction and safe work practices.
- Improve productivity, cost control, conversion costs, waste, and cost of goods sold.
- Oversee preventive and reactive maintenance, parts inventory, plant equipment, and facility improvements.
- Coordinate new product and packaging changes with R&D, QA, procurement, IT, sales, and customers.
- Maintain accurate production, paperwork, inventory, and finished-goods fulfillment processes.
- Develop operational depth and documentation across the plant.
Required Skills:
- Fluent Spanish and English communication.
- Plant or site operations leadership in food manufacturing.
- Hands-on understanding of production, food safety, quality, sanitation, and maintenance.
- People leadership in a production environment, including workforce engagement and accountability.
- Operational problem-solving, cost control, and continuous improvement.
- Ability to work onsite in the Milwaukee plant and adapt hours to business and production needs.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in operations management or equivalent experience preferred.
- 10 years in operations and 5 years in plant leadership
- Strong communication, analytical, decision-making, and financial skills.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, Power BI, and Nav; ability to use AutoCAD Viewer
Preferred Experience:
- Continuous improvement training or a strong CI track record.
- Consumer packaged goods manufacturing.
- Refrigerated, ready-to-eat, deli, or other perishable food production.
- HACCP, SQF, food safety, and audit experience.
Project Engineer – Industrial Automation & Controls
A growing industrial automation and controls organization is seeking a Project Engineer to support custom automation, control panel, and systems integration projects. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys balancing technical problem solving with customer interaction, project coordination, and quoting responsibilities.
Our client is looking for someone with practical exposure to industrial automation and controls who can effectively communicate with customers, coordinate projects, and support solutions from concept through implementation.
Family Law Paralegal
SkyWater is partnering with a Twin Cities family law firm looking to add an experienced paralegal to the firm. An ideal candidate has 5-20 years of family law experience.
The practice is busy, so someone that can take off running would be great. Compensation is competitive ($75-100k depending on experience). The office is in downtown Minneapolis, 5 days in office.
If you are interested in learning more about this role, apply or reach out directly to Kelsey Quarberg at kquarberg@skywatersearch.com.
Manufacturing Engineering Manager
SkyWater is partnering with a client in the North Metro who’s looking for a Manufacturing Engineering Manager to join their growing team! This is a brand-new position created as the company continues to expand its manufacturing footprint. The Manufacturing Engineering Manager will report directly to the VP of Operations and help build out the manufacturing engineering function for the business across multiple facilities. You’ll lead capacity expansion, new product introduction, and process improvement projects, while being hands-on & working on the production floor. Our client is an established manufacturer of engineered components & systems for industrial and equipment markets, with operations across the Upper Midwest. The Manufacturing Engineering Manager will be the go-to technical manufacturing leader for manufacturing sites, and will have the chance to help launch new facilities & grow the manufacturing engineering team over time. Our client is offering a strong base salary + quarterly bonuses, excellent benefits, and the chance to make a real impact on their growing organization!
Master Scheduler
We’re excited to partner with a growing, employee-owned specialty manufacturing organization on a Master Scheduler search to lead production planning and scheduling across a high-mix, high-volume manufacturing environment. This is an opportunity for an analytical, solutions-oriented professional to make a visible impact on production flow, inventory performance, capacity utilization, and customer delivery.
Reporting to operations leadership, you will serve as a central coordinator across Manufacturing, Purchasing, Sales, Customer Service, Quality, Warehouse, and Logistics. You will balance demand, capacity, labor, equipment, and material availability while developing executable production schedules that support business priorities.
Sr Systems Engineer
SkyWater is partnering with a client in the South Metro to find a Sr. Systems Engineer for their engineering team! This is a customer-facing role where you’ll take NPD projects from quote through execution. The Sr. Systems Engineer will help design custom systems built around each customer’s specific application. Our client is an established engineering & systems solutions provider that serves a mix of industrial and mobile equipment manufacturers. They work with some of the biggest names in the industry as well as smaller to mid-sized companies across the Midwest. Every project is different, so this is a great fit for an engineer who wants variety, enjoys working on new product development projects, and is ready to step into a senior engineering role where you’ll mentor & develop junior engineers. Our client is offering a strong base salary plus a quarterly bonuses, excellent benefits, and the chance to grow your career with an organization that keeps investing in new technology!
Chief Executive Officer
SkyWater has been retained on behalf of Lutheran Social Services of Illinois (LSSI) to identify their next President and Chief Executive Officer. Founded in 1867, LSSI is a nearly 160 year old, 1,250 employee nonprofit and the social ministry of the three Illinois synods of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). As the largest nonprofit social service provider in the state, LSSI operates a $162M budget and serves more than 50,000 individuals each year across more than 60 locations. Its services include foster care, mental health and substance use treatment, affordable senior housing, residential services for people with developmental disabilities, senior home care, and support for families impacted by incarceration.
The President and CEO will direct the planning, organization, and overall service program of LSSI, and will model the organization’s mission, vision, and values through personal example and professional leadership. This person will be a visible, mission-driven leader with strong financial acumen and exceptional communication skills. They will guide the organization through a changing funding environment, including state and federal program changes that affect the many individuals LSSI serves through Medicaid-supported programs.
The President and CEO will be a strategic and inspiring leader who aligns the organization around its mission. Responding to the Gospel, that mission is to bring healing, justice, and wholeness to people and communities. This person will be LSSI’s lead advocate before Illinois legislators, state officials, the ELCA and its three Illinois synods, Lutheran Services in America, and the broader public. They will have a proven track record of leading a complex organization, stewarding resources, and leading change.
Reporting to the Board of Directors and based at the Corporate Support Office in Des Plaines, IL, the President and CEO will lead a senior team of 5 to 8 direct reports. This person has primary responsibility for advancing LSSI’s vision of helping people live their best lives.
