About - Piedmont Locating Services

Hi, my name’s Jay, and for more than half my life I’ve been locating the underground utilities that keep our world running. On November 1, 2010, Piedmont Locating Services was established, and after fifteen years, it remains a one-person operation by choice.

My career began in early 1992, when I located cables for a contractor working with Southern Bell in Atlanta, Georgia. The move to Atlanta didn’t work out, but I took to the work like a fish to water. I returned to North Carolina and continued a career that spanned eighteen years, working for 811 contractors and a handful of civil engineering companies, mapping utilities for highway construction projects.

Since establishing the business, I’ve worked all over the state in almost any setting imaginable, from industrial and military sites to commercial shopping centers, college campuses, and hospitals, but over the past fifteen years, helping homeowners and the contractors they hire to protect their homes from preventable utility damage and disruptions has been my favorite part of the job.

You’ve invested a significant amount of money in your home, but there’s always something to maintain, something to repair, and something to upgrade. When that something requires digging, I’m here to help make your task as safe and trouble-free as possible.