Fabrication Team Lead - 2nd Shift

Oshkosh Corporation, Inc.; Bradenton (FL); Hybrid; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Oshkosh Corporation is seeking a Team Lead for the Fabrication Department on 2nd Shift. The role centers on motivating, guiding, and counseling team members, while making scheduling and material availability decisions to meet production targets.

You will lead by example through hands-on work, perform product inspections, manage inventory, and maintain manufacturing paperwork. Excellent interpersonal skills are required to interact with customers and stay compliant with safety procedures.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent education and at least one year of leadership experience in manufacturing.
• Demonstrated experience performing tasks in the department and maintaining attendance.
• Willingness to lead by example through hands-on work.

Responsibilities

• Motivate, assign work, and lead all employees in the department.
• Monitor and adjust workflow to meet the requirements of the schedule.
• Perform product inspections and evaluate the quality of the work prior to the product leaving the area.
• Maintain and complete all manufacturing paperwork for the area.
• Interact with customers and customer representatives in a professional manner.
• Maintain a safe and clean work environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
• Regular attendance and willingness to perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Leadership

Team leadership

Manufacturing experience

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent education

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Job description

About Pierce, an Oshkosh company At Pierce Manufacturing, we build trucks that protect people and communities around the world. To our team, there is no room for anything less than providing the absolute best. Since 1913, building truck bodies on Model T Ford chassis in an old converted church has evolved to creating highly customized, carefully designed and engineering pumpers, aerials, tankers and rescue units that have no equal. Today, you'll find more than 30,000 Pierce apparatuses on the road that are making a difference in people's lives, every day. To us, every step in the process of building our trucks is personal. From innovation and expertise, to the customization and service. Our trucks are designed to perform under the toughest conditions.

Summary of Job Description

The position, Team Lead, is responsible for motivating, leading, and counseling team members in the Fabrication Department on 2nd Shift. The Group Leader must be knowledgeable in all aspects of the department to effectively lead the team. This position is also responsible for making judgements regarding scheduling, work priorities, and material availability; handling employee concerns; applying rational systems to solve practical problems; dealing with a variety of concrete variables with only limited standardization; and interpreting a variety of written, oral, diagrammatic, and/or schedule instructions.

Essential Functions

• Ability to perform and demonstrate most tasks of the department
• Motivate, assign work, and lead all employees in your department
• Monitor and adjust workflow to meet the requirements of the schedule
• Perform product inspections and evaluate the quality of the work prior to the product leaving the area
• Perform inventory of stock and communicate all shortages to the appropriate personnel (shortage boards, material planners, etc.)
• Maintain and complete all manufacturing paperwork for the area
• Must be willing to lead by example through hands‑on work
• Ability to interact with customers and customer representatives in a professional manner consistent with company practices
• Maintain a safe and clean work environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations
• Demonstrate effective interpersonal communication skills
• Regular attendance required
• All other duties and responsibilities that are assigned

Minimum Qualifications

High School Diploma or equivalent education One year of leadership experience in manufacturing environment. Demonstrated experience performing tasks of the department. Must not have three or more attendance points within the past 12 months

Preferred Qualifications

to complete Essential Functions Computer literate and experienced with Microsoft products to include Excel and Word Experience in Lean Manufacturing principles such as value streams, 5S, Seven General Types of Waste, and project planning

Other Physical Requirements

• *All positions require the ability to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodations. Detailed physical job analysis available upon request.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus Sense of sound is required Sense of balance is required Limb and finger dexterity is required Ability to stand for extended periods of time Ability to perform twisting, turning, bending, climbing, pushing, and pulling motions Ability to lift at least 35 lbs individually; 36-59 lbs requires 2-person lift; 60 pounds or greater requires mechanical lift. Ability to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)—steel-toe shoes, safety glasses, vest

Work Environment

Working conditions will be inside and outside where temperatures will vary from extreme heat to extreme cold for extended periods of time. This position is regularly exposed to vibration and loud noises.

Oshkosh is committed to working with and offering reasonable accommodations to job applicants with disabilities. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability for any part of the recruitment process, please contact our talent acquisition team by email [e-mail].

Oshkosh Corporation is a merit-based Equal Opportunity Employer.

Job opportunities are open for application to all qualified individuals and selection decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected characteristic. To the extent that information is provided or collected regarding categories as provided by law it will in no way affect the decision regarding an employment application.

Oshkosh Corporation will not discharge or in any manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with Oshkosh Corporation's legal duty to furnish information.

Certain positions with Oshkosh Corporation require access to controlled goods and technologies subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations or the Export Administration Regulations. Applicants for these positions may need to be "U.S. Persons," as defined in these regulations. Generally, a "U.S. Person" is a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or an individual who has been admitted as a refugee or granted asylum.

Advance your career by advancing the world.

For many of our team members, this is more than a career.

It’s a calling.

Oshkosh is home to thousands of difference-makers working together to build, serve and protect people and communities around the world. From the front lines to the firehouse, the people we serve are driven by a sense of purpose.

The people who work here are no different. Our engineering and product innovation help keep soldiers and firefighters safe, is critical in building and keeping communities clean and helps people do their jobs every day.

As part of a People First culture, you’ll be encouraged and empowered to take ownership of your work, develop your career and make a real impact on the world around you.

Oshkosh is a global company that designs and manufactures some of the world’s toughest specialty and access equipment under the brands of JLG®, Hinowa, Power Towers, Pierce®, MAXIMETAL™, Oshkosh® Defense, McNeilus®, IMT®, Jerr-Dan®, Frontline™ Communications, Oshkosh® Airport Products, Oshkosh® AeroTech™ and Pratt Miller.