Recruiting for Full-Time Manufacturing Positions - An extension of your HR team.
We know your space — built for the VP, Director and Manager-level searches your internal team can’t reach alone.
We've Been Placing Manufacturing Leaders for 15+ Years.
Talent Traction is a boutique executive recruiting firm built specifically for manufacturing organizations. We place VP, Director, and Manager-level leaders across plastics, machinery, metals, chemicals, aerospace, and industrial manufacturing — the leadership roles your internal team can’t fill alone. A-players aren’t applying. They’re working. We find them, vet them against a structured scorecard, and deliver finalists who are already evaluated against the role before they walk into your first interview.
Leadership Roles We Place in Manufacturing
These aren’t hourly requisitions. Every search Talent Traction runs is for a full-time, salaried leader who changes the trajectory of a team, a plant, or an operation. The roles below represent the kinds of searches we run — VP and Director level preferred, Manager level where the function demands it.
- VP of Operations
- Plant Manager
- Lean Manufacturing Engineer
- Quality Control Manager
- Process Improvement Specialist
- Supply Chain Analyst
- Industrial Engineer
- Director of Supply Chain
- Director of Quality
- VP of Engineering
- Production Planner
- Materials Engineer
- Manufacturing Operations Manager
- Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Manager
How We Work — The 5-Phase Methodology
Every search Talent Traction runs follows the same proven five-phase process — Target → Roadmap → Recruit → Decide → Post-hire. Before we contact a single candidate, we align with your team on exactly who you’re looking for and what success looks like in year one. No Rolodex approach. No junior handoff. A methodology that gives your search structure, predictability, and results.
We Know Manufacturing Before We Know Your Opening.
Our senior recruiters have spent 15+ years placing leaders in manufacturing. We use our extensive network and industry expertise to identify and engage top-tier talent specific to the manufacturing sector.
An Extension of Your HR Team.
One dedicated senior recruiter runs your search end to end. We mold to how your organization already hires — your process, your culture, your timeline.
A Methodology, Not a Rolodex.
Target → Roadmap → Recruit → Decide → Post-hire. Our proven methodology ispredictable, measurable, and tuned for hard-to-fill leadership roles.
Your VP of Manufacturing Engineering Isn't on Indeed.
The leaders who change operations aren’t responding to job postings. They’re running shifts, managing teams, and hitting targets at their current company. Talent Traction finds them — through active outreach, a proven 5-phase methodology, and 15 years of knowing exactly who you’re looking for in this space.
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