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A Minneapolis-based engineering search firm placing mechanical, electrical, quality, controls, and engineering leadership talent across the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota — drawn from a candidate network most recruiters never see.

Start a SearchHow We Work
48hr
Response to Every Inquiry
5–10
Days to First Qualified Slate
$0
Up-Front on Contingency
10+
Years Operating
The Practice

A search firm that speaks engineering — and military

Call us engineering recruiters, headhunters, or a technical search firm — the work is the same: filling the engineering seats that keep Minnesota plants, product teams, and infrastructure running. We are headquartered in Minneapolis and place engineers across the state, from Fortune 500 manufacturing campuses in the Twin Cities suburbs to family-owned job shops in greater Minnesota.

What makes LockLeed different is where our candidates come from. Military technical career fields — nuclear power, avionics, PMEL calibration, combat engineering, power generation — produce engineers and technicians who have owned complex systems under real consequences. We translate that experience into civilian engineering terms, MOS by MOS, and pair it with a conventional industry network built over a decade of Minnesota search work.

Hiring at the leadership level? Engineering directors and VPs run through our retained executive search practice.

Engineering roles we fill

  • Mechanical & Electrical Engineers
  • Manufacturing & Process Engineers
  • Quality & Reliability Engineers
  • Controls & Automation Engineers
  • Engineering Technicians & CNC Programmers
  • Engineering Managers & Directors
Engineering Industry Desk
Coverage

Twin Cities metro and statewide

Minneapolis & St. Paul

The core metro: medical device, aerospace & defense, industrial OEMs, and the engineering teams that support them.

Minneapolis engineering →

The manufacturing suburbs

Anoka, Blaine, Chanhassen, Eden Prairie, Plymouth — where most of the metro’s plants and engineering seats actually sit.

North-metro engineering →

Greater Minnesota

Rochester, St. Cloud, Duluth, and the manufacturing towns in between — roles that reward recruiters who will actually work outstate.

All Minnesota locations →
Fee models: contingency for most engineering searches, retained for leadership. See contingency vs. retained or the full recruiting fee breakdown.
Questions

Engineering Recruiting FAQ

Which engineering roles do you recruit for in Minnesota? +
Mechanical, electrical, manufacturing, process, quality, controls and automation, and reliability engineers — plus engineering managers, directors, and technician-level roles like engineering techs and CNC programmers. Leadership searches run through our retained executive search practice.
What do engineering recruiters charge? +
On a contingency search you pay nothing up front — the fee is a percentage of first-year salary, due only when you hire. Retained leadership searches credit the retainer in full against the placement fee. Our staffing cost guide walks through both models.
Do you cover all of Minnesota or just the Twin Cities? +
Both. Most searches run in the Minneapolis–St. Paul metro, but we place engineers statewide — Rochester, St. Cloud, Duluth, and the manufacturing towns in between — and can search nationally when a role calls for it.
Why does an engineering search firm focus on veterans? +
Military technical career fields produce engineers and engineering leaders who have maintained, repaired, and operated complex systems under real consequences. We translate that experience — MOS by MOS — into the civilian engineering roles it maps to, which gives our clients a candidate pool most firms never see. More on that: why hire veterans.
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Tell us the role, the team, and the timeline — we respond to every inquiry within 48 hours.

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