E.R.O Intermodal Services opens doors of Santa Teresa facility

E.R.O Intermodal Services is now operating in Santa Teresa. Strategically located near the Union Pacific hub, the company does maintenance and repairs for rail related businesses. E.R.O will create 50 jobs within the next three years.

Jerry Pacheco, of the Border Industrial Association, says the company wants people with skills in logistics, sales and repairs.
“They’re good paying jobs. Welders, technicians, they pay very good money and that’s exactly the type of company we need to grow,” Pacheco said.

E.R.O’s president, Ernie Olivas, says the company invested nearly 1.2 million dollars into the project on acquisition on land, properties and buildings and plans to invest even more.

“We’re expanding 8-10 tractors between 6 to 8 months, we need to more repairs. Right now we’re at 6-7 service vehicles,” Olivas said.

Mostly excitement in this Southern New Mexico town, but there are those who doubt promises by different companies to create so many new jobs here.

Pacheco is confident. He says the time frame and the expectation of each company investing in Santa Teresa, is different. Some companies are looking to create dozens of jobs, others, a couple hundred. Still, he says these are all jobs that will be filled by borderland employees within the next several years.

“It’s those small wind ones, they create twenty jobs here, 75 jobs here. That’s the lifeblood of our economy,” Pacheco said.

1300 jobs were created just last year when Union Pacific opened. Pacheco is estimating several hundred more will open up in 2015.

“Between 3 and 500 jobs easily and I’m trying to be conservative,” Pacheco said.

Santa Teresa has clearly made its mark, now it’s smooth sailing from here.

“Now people come to us. We’ve reached that tipping point,” Pacheco said.