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IPS, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a global leader in technical consulting, architecture, engineering, procurement, construction management, commissioning, qualification, and validation services for technically complex facilities.

Integration is how we think and work. It requires the ability to unite existing and emerging technologies into a process that reliably delivers products and accelerates speed to market. That end-to-end mindset allows us to be agile and anticipate challenges as we move projects toward operational readiness.

IPS applies design and delivery expertise, client-side experience, and supplier-side insight to every project. We infuse our curiosity, our passion, and our commitment to partnership in delivering solutions at any scale. We meet our clients where they are and get them to where they need to go. That’s only possible when we care as much as our clients do.

Our Recruitment Process

At IPS, we develop our people and challenge ourselves to deliver innovative solutions. We are dedicated to nurturing the knowledge and skill of our people around the world, while cultivating our teams’ passion for life-impacting work. Once we receive your application through our career portal, our talent acquisition team member will review your application and check against the criteria for the position. If they feel that there is a good match, we will contact you and invite you to participate in the screening and interview stages of the process.

Advancement and Career Ladders

Career ladders are structured progressions of job levels within a professional organization. They outline the various stages of career advancement, each with increasing responsibilities and higher-level tasks. Employees start at an entry-level position, gain experience and skills, complete training, and potentially obtain new certifications in order to move up to mid-level positions. With further expertise and leadership abilities, they can reach management levels that will lead teams of employees or take on specific subject matter expert roles. Career ladders provide employees with clear goals and motivations for professional growth and development.

IPS has clear goals from leadership to guide employees to determine their personal goals and skills to grow their careers, as well as align with corporate goals.

Sherry Chen

Process Manager

We help design facilities that existed only in the minds of clients and turn their dreams into practical reality. We recently finished a project for a client that will change many lives for the better. While I cannot share the name of the client or the therapeutic, I will say that we were able to triple their capacity to make an in-demand cancer drug to fulfill unmet patient needs. When I think about what is important – when everyone is stressed trying to meet deadlines and finish deliverables– I’m reminded of how critical and meaningful our work is to patients.

I am a woman of two worlds. I balance the pursuit of lifesaving therapies with sustainability. I want to do more in the fight against climate change while meeting the needs of our clients. With each project, I would like to push a little more to integrate conservation into the design and encourage everyone a little more to pursue best environmental practices and integrate renewable energy into our future strategies.

My name is Sherry Chen, and I am a woman who combines her passions and her work to create the best of both worlds.

Chris Hall

Director, Process Architect

Laboratory design is an inherently complex challenge, regardless of the project's scale. While the architectural and technical challenges may be similar for most laboratory projects, each client's programmatic needs are unique and offer a new design opportunity. Similarly, it's gratifying to assist our clients in designing spaces that might enable breakthrough research within a collaborative environment where ideas are exchanged in the work.

My name is Christopher Hall, and the merging of knowledge, skill & passion for integrating technological innovation with design excellence is why I find laboratories fascinating.

Kevin Swartz

Director of Industrial Engineering

Instead of offering our clients solutions, I now provide possibilities. What if we could make one tiny change to the locker room that will increase the rate we can get workers into a cleanroom? What if twice as many people work in a given space as production expands? What if the racks were 70% bigger? Or smaller? What if we put the door here? What if this idea was more efficient? What if that change could decrease risk?

Our team partners with the architects and engineers across IPS. We’re offering “What if?” scenarios to clients with data to support the solutions. We’re offering a robust service to clients, whether they’re building a facility from the ground up or redesigning an existing space

My name is Kevin Swartz, and my passion is building networks that together stand up to the industry’s most complicated challenges.

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