Careers — IMS Industrial Maintenance & Sanitation

The work, plainly

This is not a careers page about our awesome team culture.

The work is hard, the ovens are hot, and the plant is three states away. If that sentence didn't scare you off, keep reading.

IMS crews do high-consequence work inside live food manufacturing plants: confined-space entries into silos, deep cleans over hot oven lines, chain replacements in shutdown windows that don't move because you're tired. Nights and weekends happen, because that's when plants can stop.

And make no mistake about why it matters: every safe product on a grocery shelf passed through machinery somebody maintained and sanitized correctly. Food manufacturing only works if someone keeps the equipment honest and the lines clean — nobody claps when the audit comes back clean or the line doesn't go down. That silence is the job, and the country quietly runs on people who do it right.

Here's the other side of it: production plants are aging, the people who can fix them are getting scarce, and demand for this skill set is growing every year. You picked one of the few trades where the work is coming to you.

Confined-space entries — silos, ovens, pits
Shutdown & turnaround windows, incl. nights
Multi-week travel across state lines
Mechanical work AND sanitation work — you do both
GMP conduct inside live food plants
LOTO, hot work, fall protection — every task, every time
Documentation you sign your name to

The deal

Read it like a term sheet. That's how we wrote it.

IMS FIELD TECHNICIAN — TERMS OF THE WORK DOC IMS-CREW-01 · REV 1.0

WHAT THE WORK DEMANDS

Travel. Real travel. Plan on it.
Physical work in hot, tight, high places
Safety procedure as habit, not paperwork
Working clean in someone else's food plant
Solving problems without calling home first
Your name on the service record

WHAT IMS PUTS ON THE TABLE

Both trades — maintenance and sanitation, no pigeonhole
Investment in your OSHA certifications
Small crews, real autonomy, no shadow supervisor
A founder who's done your job — both halves of it
No cubicle layer between you and the owner
Work you can point at when it's done

NO FOOSBALL TABLE. NO CULTURE COMMITTEE. THE CREW IS THE CULTURE.

Who does well here

The requirements we refuse to write.

Every maintenance job post in America lists the same three virtues. We think putting them in writing says more about the company than the candidate. So, for the record, here is everything you will never find in an IMS job post:

REQUIREMENTS — STRUCK FROM THE RECORD

Must be dedicated and hard-working
Must be trustworthy and dependable
Must be a self-starter with a positive attitude
Must be a team player who goes the extra mile

To be clear: we expect every bit of it — the dedication, the dependability, the initiative. We just refuse to write them as requirements, because for the people we hire, those aren't aspirations. They're the entry fee.

What's left is simple: people who can be handed a scope, a plant, and a safety program — and be trusted with all three.

The bench

No openings doesn't mean no interest.

IMS is growing, and mobilizations come fast when they come. The crew we call first is the one we already know. If the pages above read like your kind of work, introduce yourself — trade, certifications, home base, and how far you'll travel. That's the whole introduction.

Introduce Yourself

828.443.7814·info@imsmechanicalgroup.com