Rob Harris has led The Underground Detective in providing quality underground utility locating services to countless commercial and residential companies for over 19 years. He has experience in electromagnetic locators, sondes, and ground penetrating radar (GPR), including manufactures such as Radiodetection, Subsite, Vivax-Metrotech, Prototek, Goldak, Ridgid, and Mala Geoscience. Rob has a multitude of industry specific certifications, including OSHA 10 Hr., OSHA 40 Hr. Hazwoper, Smith Defensive Driving certification, and customer specific such as BP, Marathon, and Shell to name a few. Rob has led Underground Detective in some amazing projects, including: The Banks Project, University of Tennessee, NASA in Cleveland, working with some of the largest nationwide leaders in the construction industry, including Kokosing Construction, Turner Construction, Messer Construction, URS, Arcadis, CH2M Hill, and Parsons.The Underground Detective began in an effort to help plumbers precisely locate sewer blockages. As technology has grown, the service has adapted and evolved into utility locating, leak detection, vacuum excavation, ground penetrating radar, concrete scanning, and utility mapping. Since Rob has taken over management of Underground Detective in 1997, the firm has grown exponentially, expanding to a regional service with offices in Knoxville, TN, Philadelphia, PA, Atlanta, GA and Toledo, OH, along with it's original headquarters based in Cincinnati, OH.
Listed skills include Utility Locating, Utility Mapping, Vacuum Excavation, and Autocad.