MEC Hires Pat Schmetzer as Director, Product Training and Risk Management
MEC Aerial Work Platforms has named Pat Schmetzer director, product training and risk management.
Schmetzer comes to MEC with more than 40 years of construction and industrial equipment experience from manufacturers, dealers and rental companies.
MEC Aerial Work Platforms has named Pat Schmetzer director, product training and risk management.
Schmetzer comes to MEC with more than 40 years of construction and industrial equipment experience from manufacturers, dealers and rental companies. He has successfully performed as a service technician and service manager; technical, safety and sales training Instructor; general manager; sales director; and rental director and is highly regarded throughout the industry for his experience.
Schmetzer’s vast product and industry knowledge elevates MEC’s efforts in defining and implementing long term customer training objectives, programs, and methods in accordance with industry best practices and customer requirements. “We are pleased to add this level of talent to the MEC team as we continue to position ourselves for additional sales growth and increasing market partnership” said MEC president David White.
MEC Aerial Work Platforms is a manufacturer of a line of mobile elevating work platforms in Kerman, Calif. MEC's portfolio of mobile elevating work platforms ranges from direct electric drive slab scissors to rough terrain booms with patented and award-winning design and safety features. For more information on MEC Aerial Work Platforms, visit http://www.MECawp.com.
Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.
