Underground utility locating and excavation monitoring for infrastructure operators
GridHawk operates a field services business centered on locating underground utilities and monitoring active excavations for damage prevention. The tech stack is analytics-heavy (Snowflake, dbt, Power BI, Airbyte, Fivetran) relative to the operational core, suggesting investment in ticket quality audits, routing optimization, and compliance tracking—critical for a safety-sensitive business where marking errors create liability. Hiring is operations-dominated (235 ops roles vs. 80 engineering) and heavily junior (286 junior hires), indicating field-technician scaling; concurrent investment in training program development and quality audit process improvement reflects an organization maturing its field execution as it grows.
Notable leadership hires: Lead Locator
GridHawk provides facility locating, advanced locating, and excavation monitoring (watch & protect) services to utility companies and construction operators across the United States. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Crown Point, Indiana, the company employs 1,001–5,000 people. Core offerings include underground utility locating, ground penetrating radar, and real-time monitoring during active excavation to prevent accidental damage to buried infrastructure. The business is field-driven: 235 open ops roles span technicians, dispatchers, and field coordinators, while 80 engineering and data roles support internal tooling and compliance workflows. Active projects focus on ticket routing, quality audits, training, and process improvement—all operational maturation initiatives.
Analytics and data pipeline: Snowflake, dbt, Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Airbyte, Fivetran, AWS Glue, Azure Data Factory. Infrastructure: AWS, Azure. Programming: Python, SQL, SQL Server. Office tools: Microsoft Office.
Crown Point, Indiana. The company hires exclusively in the United States.
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