Technical Manufacturing Trainer

The Oshkosh Corporation Vocational segment leverages the power of our people brands and strength in technology to improve the safety cleanliness and productivity of our communities. The Vocational segment includes market leading brands McNeilus Oshkosh S-Series IMT Pierce MAXIMETAL Oshkosh Airport Products and Frontline Communications. Our purpose-built products serve our communities with carefully designed and engineered refuse trucks front-discharge mixer trucks fire apparatus Airport Rescue and Fire Fighting trucks service vehicles and command trucks. Our products are designed to perform under the toughest conditions.

Are you the person coworkers turn to when they need help understanding a process solving a problem or learning the right way to get the job done

As a Technical Manufacturing Trainer youll take your hands-on manufacturing experience and use it to help others build the skills they need to succeed. Youll train team members in areas such as welding fabrication mechanical assembly electrical systems high-voltage safety and HVAC/pre-conditioned air systems.

In this role you will:

• Train and coach team members on technical manufacturing skills including welding fabrication assembly electrical and related production processes.

• Turn your hands-on experience into practical training that team members can apply on the job.

• Demonstrate the safe and proper use of manufacturing tools and equipment including welding equipment torque tools cranes measuring tools and testing devices.

• Teach team members how to read and follow prints schematics weld symbols standard work instructions and other technical documentation.

• Support training related to HVAC and pre-conditioned air systems including mechanical electrical and brazing processes.

• Facilitate Level 1 and Level 2 high-voltage safety training.

• Coach team members on quality expectations inspection techniques troubleshooting and identifying manufacturing discrepancies.

• Create hands-on written online and LIVE manufacturing training.

• Develop training aids props demonstrations and other creative learning tools that make technical concepts easier to understand.

• Identify skill gaps through Training Needs and Task Analyses and develop solutions using the ADDIE training model.

• Teach team members how to navigate manufacturing and technical systems such as JDE2 Pierce Truck Builder and ProPlanner.

• Demonstrate proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word Publisher PowerPoint).

• Partner with production employees subject matter experts other trainers and leadership to continuously improve training.

• Help build a manufacturing culture focused on safety quality craftsmanship and continuous improvement.

• Work a flexible schedule when needed to support team members across multiple shifts.

• Ability to work unsupervised and with leadership remotely

• CWI or willingness to obtain CWI

• High school diploma or GED.

• Five (5) or more years of hands-on experience in manufacturing welding fabrication assembly electrical HVAC or a related technical field.

• Strong mechanical and technical aptitude.

• Ability to explain technical processes in a clear practical way.

• Ability to read and interpret technical documentation prints or work instructions.

• Strong communication and problem-solving skills.

• A willingness to learn new products processes technologies and training methods.

• Ability to travel up to 20%.

You dont need to check every box. Experience in one or more of these areas can help you succeed in this role:

• Training mentoring coaching or teaching others in a manufacturing or skilled-trades environment.

• MIG or TIG welding of aluminum and steel including pulse-spray welding.

• Mechanical or vehicle assembly.

• HVAC refrigeration brazing or pre-conditioned air systems.

• Electrical systems or high-voltage vehicle technology.

• Reading weld prints symbols schematics blueprints or 3D models.

• Developing technical training work instructions or hands-on learning activities.

• Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Publisher.

• Manufacturing software or digital work-instruction systems.

• EPA Section 608 Certification or willingness to obtain it.

• Certified Welding Inspector (CWI) certification or willingness to obtain it.

• Experience with Pierce products Pierce Truck Builder ProPlanner JDE2 or Volterra systems.

This is an opportunity to take the skills youve built throughout your manufacturing career and multiply their impact.

Instead of only building the product youll help build the people who build it.

If you enjoy working with your hands solving technical problems sharing what you know and watching others succeed because of something you taught them .

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 .

Oshkosh Corporation is a merit-based Equal Opportunity 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 Corporations legal duty to furnish information.

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