Overview
Spriggs Excavation excavates, grades and prepares land for renewable energy developers, utilities, commercial builders and homeowners across the Mountain West and beyond. Its jobs range from sitework for solar farms, wind projects and battery storage yards to electrical substations, data centers, commercial developments and residential lots. During bidding, the company reviews design documents and builds 3D models, then tracks earthwork on site with drone mapping and ground surveys. Developers and builders hire it through bids to perform defined excavation and civil scopes on their projects. Spriggs Excavation was founded in 2005 as a small residential excavation company and is headquartered in Durango, Colorado.
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What believers are saying
- Newcomers train as equipment operators: Spriggs' registered apprenticeship combines up to 460 instruction hours with 6,000+ hours alongside journeymen.
- Growth is the plan: Spriggs' October 2026 accounting posting says the contractor is scaling toward $150 million in revenue.
- Travel crews earn allowances: Spriggs' 100% travel equipment operator posting lists $25-$30 hourly, depending on experience, plus federal-rate per diem.
What critics are saying
- Travel is continuous: Spriggs' full-time traveling foreman posting expects extended single-site stays, such as several months, before out-of-state moves.
- Labor is physical: Spriggs' Denver laborer posting requires carrying up to 80 pounds, plus weekend and night availability when needed.
- Technician weeks run long: Spriggs' full-time traveling heavy-equipment field technician posting expects 40 to 60 hours weekly.
What makes Spriggs Excavation unique
- Grading is machine-guided: GPS grade control runs on all Spriggs motor graders and dozers, plus most scrapers and excavators.
- Spriggs publishes its safety results: it reported zero recordable incidents across 245,300 work hours in 2025.
- Spriggs handles mass earthwork: its website reports more than 3 million cubic yards moved on a single project.
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