Vanessa Grindstaff

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About Vanessa Grindstaff

Open to new opportunities! I can coordinate & run a region. I can line up trucks for rig moves, line up hands for rigs, trouble shoot issues on rigs, I’ve run service for solids control. Maintained & serviced all the equipment. I can rebuild FSI & Vortex shakers, swap RAs in centrifuges. I’m proficient in Microsoft office. Proficient in SAP. I can operate a front end loader, excavator, an extended boom, fork lift, fork lift w/air breaks, New Holland tractor with a bucket or hay spike & a Massey Ferguson tractor as well. Experienced in hauling a 24 foot goose neck trailer with double stack round bails. I can ride horses. Round up cattle. I'm knowledgeable in all farm equipment & farm life including livestock & crops. Know a little bit of electrical. I can weld, torch & grind metal to fabricate shaker tanks & repairs on equipment. I can operate and service centrifuges. I'm also very knowledgeable of the gas & oilfield as in all the drilling companies & all the third party crews that operate on drilling rigs & what each job entails. I've done Solids Control on drilling rigs even made connections on the rig floor in Wyoming drilling ft. I can change mechanical seals or RAs on Gorman/mission pumps, service centrifuges, trouble shoot taking vertical dryers apart & reassemble. I'm kind of a jack of all trades. I am a single mother raising two girls to be independent. I also speak, read, & write Spanish from years of growing up on the Texas border as the daughter of a U. S. Federal Agent, Former Marine Vietnam Vet. CERTS: H2S CERTIFIED PEC CLASS