Bob Schmeckpeper

Bob Schmeckpeper serves as a project manager in the Corporate College. His primary responsibility is helping companies with their safety programs. He has developed and delivered numerous training programs for area organizations in areas such as hazardous material, lock-out/tag-out, forklift safety, fall prevention, and other topics.

During the past four years, he trained over 1,000 individuals from over 50 different tower erection companies. He traveled to New Jersey, Florida, California, Kentucky, South Carolina, South Dakota, Kansas, Utah, Texas, Minnesota, Michigan, Oklahoma, Indiana, Wisconsin, Nebraska, and Iowa to deliver training to tower hands. The training was funded by a Susan Harwood grant from OSHA.

Additionally, he has trained at over sixty companies in the Siouxland region in the past few years. He has helped over a dozen companies develop safety manuals, procedures, and policies that reflect OSHA requirements. As part of his work with local companies, he has conducted numerous safety inspections and walk-abouts.

Mr. Schmeckpeper has held an OSHA 500 and 501 train-the-trainer card for over eight years. He has trained hundreds in the OSHA ten-hour and thirty-hour courses.

The online Safety Director course was designed, developed, and deployed by Bob Schmeckpeper. The course is aimed at helping company safety directors fully grasp the skills needed in a safety director position. (Many individuals are given safety director duties as add-on to their other job responsibilities. This course helps those people understand their new job duties.)

Prior to joining the Corporate College, Mr. Schmeckpeper worked in the Industrial Technology Division of the college from 1989 to 1995. He was the full-time instructor in the Building Maintenance/Stationary Engineer program. In this program, he taught electrical principles, hand and power tools, HVAC operations and maintenance, air conditioning principles, boiler operations, equipment repairs, and building energy systems. Mr. Schmeckpeper is also a licensed 1st class Hyrdronic Engineer.

Prior to joining WITCC, Mr. Schmeckpeper worked for two large corporations where he managed the local operations and maintenance division. During this time, he designed and implemented safety and health programs for both businesses.

Mr. Schmeckpeper received his Diploma in Air Conditioning, Heating, Refrigeration Service from WITCC in 1980. As part of his teaching endorsement, he has taken courses in methods of teaching, classroom evaluation, human relations, curriculum development, and implementing technology instruction. He is a graduate of Bellevue University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management. He is a believer that learning should be fun.