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Where customer focus, innovation, and purpose are built into everything we do.

Skilled Manufacturing, Inc. is a Traverse City, Michigan-based Tier 1 automotive, aerospace and medical component manufacturer. Since its founding more than 40 years ago, SMI has evolved by investing in the skillset of our employees and through innovative engineered solutions. With 180 employees on three campuses, SMI is an industry leader in precision machining, production, assembly and testing for the world’s automotive, airline, medical, and defense industries.

In addition to low, moderate-to-high volume production capabilities, our wide variety of complex engineering skills, tight tolerance machining (automated and manual), assembly and test/inspection processes and unique processing capacities set us apart from the competition. SMI is proud to run a fully contained operation, allowing us to have 100 percent control of our quality and processes. From writing our own programs to on-site robotic automation, everything we do is done in house.

Although our company encompasses three separate facilities, our employees say that SMI is like a second family to them. Family is at the heart of our “ONE SMI” culture, with brothers and sisters, moms, dads, sons and daughters working together … many for decades. To foster the family feeling, SMI believes in giving back to its employees. We promote from within, providing education and training. 

We are proud of our commitment to our customers, supply chain partners, employees and the beautiful northern Michigan community we call home.

Our current employment opportunities are listed on our Careers page.