About Tarzan & Jane Travel Centers

At T&J Travel Centers, we're redefining what a travel center can be: a place where guests experience genuine hospitality, not just convenience. We combine craveable food, spotless facilities, and friendly local service that feels like home.

We're a fast-growing, family-run company built on strong values and servant leadership. We're looking for an IT & Systems Manager who runs lean, leads humbly, cares deeply about the person on the other end of every call, stays hungry, and helps our teams deliver a consistent guest experience every shift.

What you'll do

You'll be the one person accountable for the technology in every store: registers, network, back office, the Tarzan Grill menus, and the tools we haven't built yet. Nobody has held this seat before you.

Your success will be measured by how well you:

●      Keep the stores running as the first call for every store issue, from a manager's laptop to a register that won't talk to the back office, fixed the same day

●      Find the root cause when something breaks twice, and write the fix down so it stays fixed

●      Manage the vendors. You are our main point of contact for Verifone, Acumera, Modisoft and the restaurant POS vendors. Problems go in as tickets and get followed until they close.

●      Build the Tarzan Grill menus on all three POS platforms so the same burger reports as the same burger everywhere

●      Manage Crew Member access. Every login, register code and admin account in a password manager. A new hire has what they need on day one, and when somebody leaves their access is gone that day.

●      Build our own tools with Claude Code, from dashboards and small internal apps to connections between systems that don't talk to each other

●      Open our new stores with the network, registers, kitchen displays, cameras and internet tested before the doors open

Key Performance Indicators

We don't just say “do a great job” - we define it. A+ Players at T&J consistently achieve:

●      Every store issue comes to you first, not to Seth

●      Tarzan Grill reports the same way on all three POS platforms

●      Every admin credential in the password manager, and no one-person lockout anywhere

●      Subscription register current: what we pay, who uses it, and when it renews

●      Our next two stores open with their systems tested before the doors open

What you bring

●      3+ years supporting store, restaurant or retail systems in the field

●      Networking you can put to work: switches, VLANs, ISP failover, and reading a Meraki dashboard

●      Experience building or rebuilding POS menus, and an understanding of how that structure shapes the reports

●      A working tool you have built with Claude Code or ChatGPT Codex, and we would love to see it

●      The ability to explain a technical problem in plain language to a manager or a cashier

●      Hands-on at every layer, from the cable under the counter to the vendor email

●      Based in or near Midland

What you can expect

●      A family-style culture built on respect, teamwork, and humility

●      Real ownership from day one, with the room and the budget to build things properly

●      Competitive salary, performance bonuses, and recognition for excellence

●      A small leadership team that says thank you and means it, working from offices inside our stores

OUR VALUES

Run Lean: Waste nothing. We live or die by pennies.

Care Deeply: Respect the guest in front of you and the teammate beside you.

Clean Relentlessly: If you see it, you own it. The restroom, the parking lot, the whole store.

Craveable Food: Make it worth driving across town for. Every single time.

Lead Humbly: Go first. No job is beneath us.

Stay Hungry: Good today isn't good enough tomorrow. Ask for the harder job.