Traffic Lead - 1st Shift

Morgan Truck Body; Janesville (WI); On-site; USD 52,000 - 68,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

401(k) Savings Plan with Company Match

Tuition Reimbursement

Paid holidays and vacation time

Footwear and Eyewear Reimbursement

Job and Leadership Development培训

Job summary

Morgan Truck Body, a longstanding North American truck body producer, is seeking a Traffic Lead for the 1st shift. The role emphasizes safety, productivity, and team leadership in a manufacturing setting.

Responsibilities include coordinating resources, ensuring on-time deliveries, and maintaining inventory control. The position requires basic supervisory experience, proficiency with Microsoft Office, and familiarity with JDE-Oracle.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED required or preferred.
• Prior supervisory experience is preferred but not required.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel) is required or preferred.
• Knowledge of JDE-Oracle operating system is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Drive assorted vehicles safely and responsibly.
• Keep chassis prep full and park released units.
• Assist with installing mud flaps, window stickers, and other small parts as needed.
• Recordkeeping: chassis check-in sheets, sign-for-vehicles, and related documentation.
• Prioritize workload after training to meet plant goals and requests.
• Coordinate activities with other departments to meet delivery goals and maintain safety.

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

Microsoft Office

JDE-Oracle

Job description

Posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Traffic Lead – 1st Shift

The Nuts and Bolts:

• Driving assorted vehicles safely and responsibly.
• Keep chassis prep full and park released units
• Doing any number of tasks that are required of the crew including installing mud flaps, installing window stickers, making key tags, signing for vehicles, filling out chassis check in sheets and measuring front of body and wheelbase and keeping busy with pertinent work.
• After training be fable to prioritize work load and requests.

Specific Job Functions:

PRODUCTIVITY

Effective use and coordination of resources to accomplish specific goals and outputs while maintaining quality and customer satisfaction.

• Control and reduce truck hours.
• Effective and efficient utilization of people and other resources (overtime, equipment, material, etc.)
• Efficiently and effectively plan and execute daily work.
• Coordinate activities with other departments of the plant.
• Achieve truck delivery goals; daily delivery, monthly delivery, and on time delivery.
• Monitor and control inventory levels to ensure appropriate availability and work in process levels.

SAFETY

Lead by personal example to create and maintain a safe and orderly work environment. Enforces or follows safe work practices.

• Achieve zero lost time injuries and reduce OSHA recordable injuries.
• Assure compliance to safety policies and safe work practices. Maintain consistent daily housekeeping of all areas of responsibility.
• Utilize established programs and personal (safety meetings, etc.) to improve safety performance.
• Display personal safety attitude and safety leadership / sponsorship.

EMPLOYEE DEVELOPMENT / TEAM LEADERSHIP

Provide associates with objectives and standards specifying results to be achieved. Provide tools, training, and support as needed. Provide a motivate climate supportive of each team member becoming fully competent.

• Display and promote teamwork and effective communication within Production and the company as a whole.
• Deal quickly and effectively with associate issues / concerns.
• Adhere to all legal and company policies and procedures.
• Take an active interest in the training of all new and existing associates assigned within your area of responsibility
• Maintain continual effective communication with associates assigned to area of responsibility.
• Perform performance coaching and counseling as required to ensure associates perform to desired expectations.

Required Credentials:

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office – Outlook, Word, Excel.
• Working knowledge of JDE-Oracle operating system is preferred.
• High School Diploma or equivalent GED preferred.
• Prior supervisory experience preferred but not required.
• Ability to rotate shifts if needed

You Must Be Able to:

• This job operates in a manufacturing plant environment. While performing the duties of this job, the team member is regularly required to talk or hear). The team member frequently is required to stand (sometimes for extended periods); walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms, and lift up to 35 pounds. The team member may, at times, sit, bend, stoop, squat, reach overhead, or crawl (may be in confined spaces). The team member is expected to perform repetitive tasks using their hands, and have the ability to climb ladders and/or work in high places.

How We Make an Impact:

Celebrating our 70th year as the largest truck body builder in North America, Morgan Truck Body LLC is proud to produce, deliver, and service quality products. With a foundation built on innovative design and quality construction, Morgan has experienced tremendous growth. In addition to dry freight truck bodies, Morgan specializes in satisfying unique and custom truck body needs, including electric vehicles, mobile service units, and refrigerated products, serving farmers, ranchers, contractors, landscapers, equipment and material haulers, and more!

Our shared values are the foundation upon which Morgan does business:

• Appreciating the people who make our success possible
• Acting with integrity in all we do
• Delivering results for our customers
• Bringing an unbridled passion for our products

Some of Our Total Rewards

We offer big company perks with small company culture:

• Comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life
• 401(k) Savings Plan with Company Match
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid holidays and increasing vacation time with years of service
• Generous Footwear and Eyewear Reimbursement Programs
• Paid Job and Leadership Development training

Morgan Truck Body LLC is a business unit of the J.B. Poindexter & Co., Inc. family and provides equal employment opportunities to all team members and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.