About Us
Sparus Holdings
Sparus Holdings is a leading provider of outsourced field and professional services primarily focused on the gas and electric utility markets. Sparus goes to market under seven core brands – Southern Cross, NAFS, The Spear Group, OneVision, TruCheck, ULS, and Allegiant. Its subsidiaries provide a unique blend of differentiated, yet complementary services to offer a tightly integrated solution set for its customers while expanding its addressable market and future growth prospects.
Sparus’s subsidiaries are widely recognized as leaders within their respective industry segments. They provide a complementary suite of field, professional services, technology, and products supporting critical electric and gas utility infrastructure inspection, maintenance, repair, and replacement. Sparus serves the full scope of customers’ outsourced service needs across a variety of end markets and technology-enabled service offerings.
Southern Cross
Since its founding in 1946, Southern Cross has been a leading provider of utility field services for electric, gas, and water utility customers.
Southern Cross partners with customers and employees to protect lives, property, and client infrastructure, while making projects successful by delivering high-quality services.
Through organic and acquisitive expansion, Southern Cross has grown to offer field services to customers throughout North America, including underground utility locating, damage prevention, gas leak detection, utility meter services, and other critical utility services.
NAFs
North American Field Services has been operating since 2012 with a reputation for quality, safety, and efficiency. Their union workforce will complement your projects large and small with all necessary positions. NAFs provide field services from leak survey, locate and mark, pipeline integrity, demand response, stray voltage, and many others.
The Spear Group
Founded in 1981, The Spear Group has partnered with companies in a variety of industries, including gas and electric utilities, architecture, and engineering firms, construction, pharmaceuticals, and various other industrial organizations. Our teams have earned a reputation as leaders in Project Management, Project Controls, Cost Estimating, Service Planning, Validation, Start-up & Licensing, and Field-Based Construction support for projects throughout the United States.
OneVision
OneVision Utility Services has been a top-tier Damage Prevention and Locating service provider for many years. Our highly skilled workforce is dedicated to providing the best service this industry can offer. We professionally represent our customers at all times and build good working relationships with all stakeholders.
TruCheck
With 20 years in the meter services industry and an experienced management team supporting a nationwide footprint, TruCheck has the experience to help you maximize your meter automation investment.
TruCheck is a national contract services organization that delivers high-quality electric, gas, and water meter service solutions to investor-owned, electric cooperative and municipal utilities.
Recognized as an industry leader, we partner with utility customers, technology vendors, and consultants on services ranging from introductory pilots to complete system upgrades. Our safety, quality, and production principles are uncompromised and shared with all employees through extensive training and quality control programs led by our full-time Implementation training team.
United Locating Services – ULS
Allegiant
Since its founding as Sooner Meter in 1996, Allegiant Utility Services is a world-class utility service company that provides meter installation, testing, and sales to rural electric cooperatives and municipalities for nearly 25 years. Headquartered in Texas, we now have regional facilities in Minnesota and North Carolina.
Allegiant continues to expand our national footprint through organic growth and acquisition with a goal of providing the best end-to-end utility service offerings in the industry. We are a proud, Veteran-owned business, whose leadership team has over 100 years of combined experience in utility sectors for electric, gas and water.
Our Services
Sparus' key service offerings include.
Metering
The Sparus family is home to several industry leaders in the metering sector.
Locating & Damage Prevention
Sparus prides itself on having over 200+ years of combined locate leadership.
Professional Services
Sparus is home to our Professional Services team with a focus on project management and more.
Operations & Maintenance
Sparus offers support for outsourced Operations and Maintenance programs.
Our Vision
We partner with our customers and employees to protect lives, property, and client infrastructure while making projects wildly successful through our delivery of high-quality services. We add value to the process by integrating innovation and technology into everything we do while challenging the status quo.
Our Mission
PARTNERSHIP
Commit to the success of our people and customers.
TEAMWORK
Collaborate to achieve
common goals.
INTEGRITY
Do the right thing!
INNOVATION
Deliver results through
technology-driven solutions.
The leadership team, led by CEO Rich Summers, is committed to
building a best-in-class business.
Leadership
Rich Summers
President & CEO
Sean Durkin
CFO
Jody Boyles
VP Business Development
Leading Provider of Outsourced Field and Professional Services
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