IEM Manufacturing expanding in NorthPoint, adding 300 jobs (Courtesy of the Jacksonville Daily Record) — Industrial Electric Manufacturing, which designs and makes electrical distribution and control systems, is expanding into NorthPoint Building 7 in NorthPoint Industrial Park and intends to add 300 jobs.
It currently has about 400 manufacturing and support employees in the nearby NorthPoint Building 3 it occupied in July.
“IEM is investing heavily in our Jacksonville plants and our capabilities,” said Tim Ferguson, vice president of operations (pictured above).
Ferguson said Dec. 27 that the $15 million investment in the expansion will be for tenant improvements, equipment and other work.
“It will go beyond that. That is where we are today,” he said.
He anticipates build-out by the second quarter of 2023 at the earliest. He said the target to add 300 employees is the end of the third quarter of 2023.
The expansion will mean IEM will have 700 employees and more than 500,000 square feet of manufacturing and support space in North Jacksonville.
Ferguson refers to the NorthPoint plants Jax 1 and Jax 2.
“It is most certainly an expansion to help us increase our footprint in a really strong market for our product, which is electric power distribution equipment,” Ferguson said.
He said the new larger location will allow IEM to move some of its existing products to the new site and expand its capacity and capabilities.
“We build electrical power distribution equipment from 38,000-volt switchgear all the way down to panelboards. Many of those products will be transitioned to the new building and that will allow us to focus Jax 1 on low voltage switchboards and switchgear,” he said.
He said market segments include data center providers, commercial, industrial, health care, renewables and others.
IEM, whose official name is Industrial Electric Mfg., is based in Fremont, California. IEM also has manufacturing facilities in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, as well as sales, engineering and field service offices throughout North America.
Pattillo Industrial Real Estate owns NorthPoint Industrial Park. NorthPoint is along Port Jacksonville Parkway between New Berlin Road and Alta Drive in North Jacksonville.
Photo courtesy of IEM