About Us

Our Mission

To serve our customers with excellence through faith-guided leadership, precision excavating and reliable trucking services, and a deep commitment to supporting veterans and the communities we work in.

Our Core Values

Faith & Integrity

We lead with faith and conduct our work with honesty, accountability, and moral courage — doing the right thing even when no one is watching.

Service Before Self

We serve our customers, coworkers, and communities with humility and commitment, putting people and purpose ahead of profit.

Respect for Veterans & Team

We honor those who have served by fostering a culture of respect, discipline, and teamwork, where every individual is valued and supported.

Excellence in Craftsmanship

We take pride in our work and hold ourselves to high standards of safety, quality, and reliability on every job, every load, every day.

Hard Work & Accountability

We believe in showing up, working hard, and taking responsibility for our actions — owning our results and learning from our mistakes.

Community Commitment

We invest in the communities we serve, striving to leave every job site, relationship, and neighborhood better than we found it.

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Experience Armour

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It all begins with setting high standards. We hire experienced operators and drivers, who are USA citizens, that are incentivized to deliver results, not talk. Armour is nimble, quick to deploy. Collaboration and communication is core to our partnership approach with our clients and other subcontractors.

Turnkey Bids

Our clients asked, we listened. General contractors are seeking to deal with fewer subcontractors and create more streamlined project phases. Armour has responded in two key ways; vertical integration and embedded partnerships. By performing demolition, we eliminate a separate contract and coordination exercise. By hauling our own aggregates, we are never waiting for deliveries. By partnering with existing Armour clients, we can embed certain trades like utilities and concrete within our scope which eliminates additional contracts and coordination for the general contractor.

Technology Enabled

Armour uses technology in all aspects of its business starting with quoting, scheduling and billing; communicating with clients; and real-time tracking of trucks and equipment.

Detailed Quotes, Engineered Plans

Armour documents in detail the plans it prepares to execute to ensure customer agreement as well as demonstrate the level of quality of our work.

Vertically Integrated,
No Middleman

Armour sources its aggregates directly from the quarries, hauls materials in our own trucks, and tackles many aspects of the excavating project. This means fewer contractors and less markups on materials.

Meet Our Team

Stephen Day

Stephen Day

CEO
Matthew Morris

Matthew Morris

Director of Operations
Jonathan Smith

Jonathan Smith

Excavating Manager
Lisa Carmen

Lisa Carmen

Dispatcher
Chelsey Gonzales

Chelsey Gonzales

Chief Financial Officer

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Stephen Day

Stephen Day, CEO

Stephen founded Armour Excavating in 2017 with the goal of delivering a higher-quality, more reliable excavating service to the Texas Hill Country and Central Texas. Since founding the company, Stephen has focused on building a vertically integrated operation and expanding Armour’s fleet within the first two years and completing the acquisitions of JDAT and Buck Valley Trucking within a two-year span. Today, Stephen oversees the strategic growth and operations of Armour Excavating.

Stephen holds a BS from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business with a concentration in Accounting; MBA from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business with a concentration in Finance & International Business.

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Matthew Morris

Matthew Morris, Director of Operations

Matthew Morris is the Director of Operations for Armour Excavating.  Although he is a native of Oregon, Matthew has lived in Kerr County since 1998. With over 26 years in the trucking industry, Morris brings experience in driver training, fleet maintenance, oilfield and hazmat safety, along with large-scale local and federal DOT compliance. Matthew Morris joined the Armour team as a driver when they merged with JDAT Trucking in December of 2022 and was soon after invited to step into the role of Director of Operations. Matthew oversees the daily operations with employees and customers and has been instrumental in the tremendous growth Armour experienced in recent years.

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Jonathan Smith

Jonathan Smith, Excavating Manager

Jonathan Smith is the Excavating Manager for Armour. He joined the company in the summer of 2024 as a driver and equipment mover and quickly grew into a leadership role. Today, Jonathan oversees the day-to-day operations of the excavating department, coordinating crews, managing equipment logistics, and ensuring efficient execution of field operations. His hands-on experience and operational leadership are key to keeping projects running smoothly and on schedule.

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Lisa Carmen

Lisa Carmen, Dispatcher

Lisa is the Office Manager for Armour. She joined Armour in April 2025 following the acquisition of Buck Valley Trucking. In her role, Lisa oversees dispatching, payroll reporting, equipment utilization reports, and cost analysis reporting. She also manages employee advertising and onboarding, supporting the company’s operational and administrative needs.

Lisa holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Oklahoma and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

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Chelsey Gonzales

Chelsey Gonzales, Chief Financial Officer

Chelsey Gonzales serves as Chief Financial Officer of Armour Excavating LLC, where she oversees the company’s financials, operations, and long-term growth initiatives. She works closely with ownership and leadership to support Armour’s expanding footprint across hauling and excavating services. Since joining Armour, she has partnered alongside Stephen to help scale the business, strengthen financial controls, and support strategic decision-making across Armour and its affiliated ventures.

Chelsey earned her Bachelor of Business Administration from Texas State University, majoring in Management.

Join Our Crew

Looking for a new career?

To attract the most experienced professionals, Armour offers competitive pay and benefits along with a culture of safety, respect and career advancement.

Apply today

Armour is seeking the following:

Laborers

Laborers assist the excavating crew with a variety of tasks. Laborers should have basic operating skills for compact track loaders and wheel loader.

Operators

Operators to perform excavating site work with excavators, bulldozers, road graders (maintainers), and various other pieces of equipment.

CDL Drivers

CDL Drivers that can operate some or all of the following; tandem dump trucks, quad axle dump trucks, flatbed, heavy haul equipment on lowboys, or tractor pulled end or belly dump trailers.

Part-time contractor

Part-time contractor roles are available from time to time for office administrative tasks, quoting, or project accounting.

To attract the most experienced professionals, Armour offers competitive pay and benefits along with a culture of safety, respect and career advancement.

Apply today