Intermountain Electronics in the Centralia Industrial Park has announced plans for further expansion of its facility and adding more jobs.
The company announced its plans at a Greater Centralia Chamber of Commerce luncheon at the plant on Wednesday.
HR/Recruiting Director Brenda Malone says after starting in Centralia with 12 employees in December 2011 the company currently has 107 employees.
“If you look at our building, we’ve already doubled our size,” Malone said. “We also bought two warehouses across the street, and we’re getting ready to add another hundred thousand square feet which would mean another sixty employees.”
Malone says many of the employees have been hired from the local area while engineers have been brought into the community. She reports the company is working to grow their own local engineering employees.
General Manager Tim Benedict says over the years they have expanded the types of businesses they serve.
“We started out in mining, that was almost 100 percent of what we did for several years. Mining was gold, silver, and coal. When you think of mining, a lot of people think of coal,” Benedict said. “We got into oil and gas, we started building buildings, we got into renewable energy, we got into data centers… As the need was there, we’ve grown with the need. It’s been awesome.”
A large part of their business is developing power systems for cloud-based companies that allow seamless operation from loss of regular electrical power until emergency generators begin operations.
Benedict says business looks good going forward.
“We’ve got a great future. We are booked out right now until the end of 2026, we are booked solid,” Benedict said. “It’s almost over capacity of what we can build in this facility.”
The company dates its start to 1985 in Price, Utah and has grown to facilities in Ohio and Centralia. It remains privately owned by its founders John and Jerry Houston.
