Our Legend of the Environmental Industry award aims to recognize individuals for their longstanding positive impact and achievements within the environmental industry. Their demonstrations of forward progression in the push towards environmental change for their accomplished excellence during their tenure are evaluated in five core areas: leadership, innovation, commitment, collaboration, and education.
This year we honored Bill Doetsch of PROS Services. At the age of 16, Bill Doetsch began working in the family business of Industrial Services on a part-time basis after school cleaning the trucks out and organizing the shop areas. Upon nearing the completion of his bachelor’s degree in 1989, he took a job within the company as a full-time helper on an Industrial Services cleaning crew. During this time, he realized he would much rather be the operator than the helper. In 1991, he was promoted to Supervisor, and by 1996, he was promoted again to the Business Manager.
In March 2002, Bill and Brad Grava formed Addison Enterprises, LLC (Addison), a holding company for the purpose of environmental-related transactions. Later that year in July, Addison acquired the stock of PROS Services, Inc. which included six employees and fourteen trucks/trailers. By the late 2000’s PROS entered into the spill response market and began to win awards for the Best and Brightest company to work for, fastest growing environmental companies, and environmental contractor of the year award. In the early 2010’s the company added manhole cleaning and Hydro excavation. During the pandemic, PROS added the service of COVID Sanitizing. During the time that Bill and Brad have owned PROS, the company has grown to a fleet of over 110 trucks/trailers and 75 employees within the PROS family.