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About Sunbolt Recruiting Group

Executive Search Built on Law, Operations, and Fifteen Years of Practice

Meet Our Founder - Craig Saunders

I built Sunbolt on three background experiences that rarely sit together in one recruiter. I am a trial lawyer by training and spent the early part of my career in litigation. That work taught me to read documents closely and to read people more closely. Both skills now sit at the center of how I run a search. I manage my family's working farm, which has taught me more about operational leadership, labor management, and margin pressure than most MBA programs teach. And I have spent more than fifteen years placing executives in manufacturing, engineering, and technology, across automotive, CPG, metal forming, industrial automation, plastics and chemical, aviation and aerospace, and electronics.

Every hire reshapes an organization, and every placement reshapes a career. The wrong plant manager sets a facility back three years. The right one turns it around in eighteen months. The candidate whose career stalls for two years in the wrong seat is a person with a mortgage and a family, not a line item on a scorecard. Recruiting done without the attention it deserves gets people hurt on both sides of the table. That reality governs how I conduct every search.

When I walk a plant with a senior leader or sit across from a candidate in an interview, I see what a working manager sees: the body language, the housekeeping, the things that are working, and the things that nobody has had time to address.

I don't fill roles. I place leaders. And that is the reason clients come back to me for their next search.

Our Approach to Executive Recruitment

Client-Centric Approach

We dive deep into understanding your organizational culture, goals, and challenges to find candidates who don't just fill roles, but drive transformative change.

Industry Expertise

With more than 15 years across manufacturing, engineering, and technology, we know the sectors we serve, the leaders within them, and what separates a strong resume from a strong hire.

Customized Solutions

Because no two searches are the same, we do not rely on a standard template. We start with a working session to understand the business, clarify the challenge, and shape the right search strategy.

Passive Candidate Network

The strongest candidates are usually not looking for a new role. Our clients benefit from a network shaped by 15 years of earned relationships with leaders who know us, trust us, and respond when we reach out.

Areas of Executive Recruitment Expertise

Manufacturing Operations

Plant management, operations leadership, and multi-site executives who own the P&L. Learn more →

Engineering

Engineering leaders across mechanical, electrical, automation, systems, and product development. Learn more →

Industrial Automation

Automation leadership, controls engineering, systems integration, and Industry 4.0 roles. Learn more →

Continuous Improvement

Lean, Six Sigma, and operational excellence leaders who sustain improvements after they are made. Learn more →

Human Resources

HR leadership for manufacturing environments, including labor relations and organizational development. Learn more →

Finance & Accounting

Manufacturing finance leadership, cost accounting, and strategic financial planning. Learn more →

Ready to Transform Your Talent Strategy?

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