IBC ToteTexas

Reuse ledger, year to date: 41,200 totes diverted from Texas landfills this year. 2,060k lb of HDPE kept in service. 1,772k lb of steel cage recovered. 3,140 tons of CO₂e avoided. 92% of our wash water recycled on site. 68 Texas counties served from one Austin yard. Full methodology at /sustainability/reuse-ledger.

Company · careers

It’s a yard.
It’s hot.
The work matters.

We are not going to describe this as a fast-paced dynamic environment. It is twelve acres in southeast Austin where people wash, inspect and repair industrial containers so they do not get buried. That is genuinely satisfying work, and it is also physical work in Texas summers.

Outdoor tote yard beside a metal warehouse with the Texas flag flying overhead

The short answer

We hire yard operators, wash technicians, fabrication and rebottling crew, and dispatch. No container experience required — we train and certify. Monday to Friday with a rotating Saturday morning, no night shifts. Send an email describing what you have done and what you are good at.

Interested?

Use the form, put 'Careers' in the Product Type field, and tell us about yourself in the Message.

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From the yard

Wide view of a warehouse hall filled with reconditioned IBC totes on polished concrete
Covered inventory. What you see on the rack is what goes on your truck.
Close-up of a single 275 gallon IBC tote showing its capacity label, UN placard and blue ball valve
A 275 with the plate, the capacity label and a standard 2-inch ball valve.

Roles

Four kinds of work

Openings vary. Write to us regardless — we would rather meet someone good three months early than fill a role in a hurry.

Yard operator

Intake inspection, washing, grading and racking. You will be outside, you will be wet a lot of the time, and you will be the person whose judgement determines what a container gets sold as. That last part is not a formality here.

What we're looking for

  • Comfortable working outdoors in Texas heat
  • Careful and consistent rather than fast
  • Willing to write down what you actually found
  • Forklift experience helpful, not required — we certify

Wash technician

Running the pad: five standards, caustic chemistry at 160°F, recorded parameters, and the closed-loop water plant. Precision matters because the record you produce travels with the container into somebody's food plant.

What we're looking for

  • Respect for chemistry and PPE
  • Able to follow and document a written procedure exactly
  • Comfortable with pumps, filters and basic plant maintenance
  • Food-handling or sanitation background is a plus

Fabrication & rebottling

Cage press, MIG welding, saws, deburring, bottle fitting and leak testing. Half production work, half solving whatever a customer sketched on the back of an invoice.

What we're looking for

  • Welding experience — MIG on light structural steel
  • Can work from a dimension or a rough sketch
  • Finishes edges properly, every time, without being asked
  • Enjoys the one-off jobs more than the repetitive ones

Dispatch & logistics

Building consolidated routes, scheduling collections onto return legs, matching equipment to sites, and telling customers the truth about dates. The job is mostly puzzle-solving with a map and a phone that only sends email.

What we're looking for

  • Good at spatial and scheduling puzzles
  • Writes clearly and quickly
  • Comfortable saying 'Thursday' when the customer wanted Tuesday
  • Texas geography knowledge is a genuine advantage

Honest

What the work is actually like

  • Outdoors, mostly. Covered bays exist but the yard is the yard.
  • Texas summers. We start early, we provide shade and water, and it is still August.
  • Physical, but not brutal — machines lift the heavy things, people position them.
  • Wet. Washing containers involves water going in unplanned directions.
  • Chemical exposure is managed and real. PPE is not a suggestion here.
  • Quiet. No open-plan office, no meetings about meetings, no quarterly initiative.

Also honest

What we offer

  • Permanent roles, not seasonal. We hire slowly and we keep people.
  • Forklift certification and wash-standard training, paid, on the clock.
  • Monday to Friday with a rotating Saturday morning. No night shifts.
  • Your judgement counts — the operator who washes a unit assigns its grade.
  • Work that visibly keeps things out of the ground, which is not nothing.
  • English or Spanish, whichever you prefer, on the yard and in the office.

How to apply

Email info@ibctotestexas.com with “Careers” in the subject, or use the form on this page with “Careers” in the Product Type field.

Tell us:

  • What you have done — jobs, trades, machines, anything relevant or not
  • What you are actually good at, in your own words
  • Which of the four roles interests you, or that you do not know yet
  • When you could start

A résumé is welcome and not required. Several people here arrived with a paragraph and a willingness to be trained, and they are among the best operators on the yard.

What happens next

You will hear back within a few business days either way. If it looks like a fit, we ask you to come to the yard, walk the rows, and spend an hour seeing the actual work before anybody talks about an offer. It is a two-way test and it has saved both sides some unhappy months.

Equal opportunity

We hire on capability and reliability. No history with containers is required and no particular background is assumed. If you can do the work carefully and tell the truth about what you found, we are interested.

Questions people actually ask

+Do I need experience with containers?
No. Almost nobody arrives knowing what a buttress thread is. What matters is whether you can be careful with things that weigh a ton and honest about what you found when you inspected something.
+Is a forklift certification required?
Not to start. We train and certify internally, and most yard operators are certified within their first few weeks.
+What's the schedule?
Yard hours are Mon–Thu 7:30a–5p · Fri 7:30a–4p · Sat 8a–12p · Sun closed (Central Time). Most roles are Monday to Friday with a rotating Saturday morning. We don't run night shifts.
+Is it seasonal work?
No. Volume is seasonal — ranch water peaks in May, chemical returns after year-end inventory — but the roles are permanent. We hire slowly and we keep people.

Related

Get a sense of the place

Quick reference

Numbers worth having open in another tab

The figures that come up in almost every conversation, whichever page you arrived on.

275 gallon · 1040 L

48×40×46

Tare
130 lb
Gross, water
2,425 lb
Stack full
2 high
Stock
Always in stock

330 gallon · 1250 L

48×40×53

Tare
160 lb
Gross, water
2,915 lb
Stack full
2 high
Stock
Always in stock

264 gallon · 1000 L

48×40×46

Tare
125 lb
Gross, water
2,325 lb
Stack full
2 high
Stock
Usually in stock

350 gallon · 1325 L

48×40×56

Tare
175 lb
Gross, water
3,095 lb
Stack full
2 high
Stock
Order in

Outlet thread

S60x6 — 60 mm coarse buttress. Not 2" NPT.

Grades published

N, R, F, A, B, C, X — applied at the wash bay.

Wash standards

W1 rinse through W4 caustic CIP at 160°F.

UN retest

Leakproofness 2.5 yrs, requalification 5 yrs.

From the yard notes

Longer reading on this

32 articles written by the people who wash, grade, weld and dispatch. No marketing copy in any of them.

All 32 articles

On the yard this week

Outdoor tote yard beside a metal warehouse with the Texas flag flying overhead
The yard on a working Tuesday. Everything ships from one site in southeast Austin.
Wide view of a warehouse hall filled with reconditioned IBC totes on polished concrete
Covered inventory. What you see on the rack is what goes on your truck.

More answers

While you're here

Pulled from the full FAQ, which runs to forty-plus answers across buying, grades, food safety, sizes, selling, compliance, delivery and care.

Read the full FAQ

Where we are
3505 Montopolis Dr, Austin, TX 78744
Yard hours
Mon–Thu 7:30a–5p · Fri 7:30a–4p · Sat 8a–12p · Sun closed (Central Time)
Coverage
68 Texas counties on scheduled routes, from one Austin yard.

+What about totes with product still in them?
Rinsed and drained only. We are not a hazardous waste disposal facility and cannot accept regulated waste. If your totes still hold product, you need a licensed disposal contractor.
+What about allergen control?
Washing reduces residue; it does not certify absence. If you produce allergen-free product, rebottle and dedicate the units rather than relying on a wash. No honest reconditioner will give you an allergen-free guarantee on a reused bottle.
+What are standard IBC tote dimensions?
48 inches long by 40 inches wide — one standard pallet position — with height varying by capacity: 46 in for 275 gallons, 53 in for 330, 56 in for 350.
+How do I tell if a used tote is sound?
Check five points: cage welds at the base corners, the bottle around the outlet, the valve seat, the lid gasket and the pallet feet. Those account for nearly every problem we see at intake. The 48-point inspection checklist covers the systematic version.
+Can I inspect before buying?
Yes, and we encourage it for first-time buyers. Yard hours, walk the rows, pick your own units. Grading is honest but it's still a judgement — seeing the stock settles every question at once.

Come and see it before you decide.

We'd rather you walk the yard for an hour than read a job description. 3505 Montopolis Dr, Austin, TX 78744, Mon–Thu 7:30a–5p · Fri 7:30a–4p · Sat 8a–12p · Sun closed (Central Time).

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