Bernadine Givens
President
Signs every scope and every handback, and calls the plant manager herself when a window changes.
About
A coating crew run like a maintenance crew
Red Fork takes its name from the west Tulsa district where the shop and yard sit.
We do one thing: coat steel and concrete in working industrial sites. Forty people, in crews of blasters, applicators, riggers and lift operators, with a quality lead and a safety director who report to the president rather than to the schedule.
How the crew is built
Blast, prime and finish coats by the same crew
Quality control and safety report to the president
Rigging, lifts and containment run in-house
Who runs your job
The people who answer for the work
Call any of them. The office will put you through.
Hemant Mehrotra
Estimator and project manager
Walks the steel, writes the scope and schedule, and keeps the crew count honest to the window.
Rosaura Nieto
Safety director
Writes the site plan, runs orientation and has stop-work authority on every job.
Ardell Youngbird
Field superintendent
On the steel every shift with the crew leads, the lift and the weather.
Obinna Nwosu
Quality control
Film readings, hold points and the daily log that goes in your binder.
The forty
Who is on a typical crew
Crew size follows the window. These are the roles it is drawn from.
Blast and prep
Abrasive blasters, pot tenders and tool crews.
Coating applicators
Spray and brush hands for prime, build and finish coats.
Access and rigging
Scaffold builders and lift operators.
Inspection and safety
Quality control, a safety lead on every shift and the permit clerk.
Walk the steel with us.
Bring the maintenance lead. We bring the scope checklist.