About this role
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.
Oshkosh Vocational is new to the Murfreesboro, Tennessee area and is looking to build an extraordinary team of purpose-driven individuals. The new facility is located off of Joe B Jackson Parkway giving team members an opportunity to avoid the Nashville traffic! As part of our 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!
With a career at Oshkosh Vocational Tennessee, you can expect:
Direct Hire – Hiring Immediately!
Competitive Pay – pay based on experience and education, minimum starting rate at $21.32 per hour
Paid Weekly
Comprehensive Benefits Package Effective 30 Days After Hire, including:
Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability benefits
401(k) plan with Company Match
Tuition Reimbursement
Paid Holidays
Paid Time Off (PTO) program
Stock Purchase Program
Discount Programs (Hotels, Travel, Entertainment, Gym Membership and more)
NEW Paid Parental Leave (Effective January 1, 2026):
Two consecutive calendar weeks at 60% of regular pay
Available for birth, adoption, or placement of a child for adoption
Eligible for birth and non-birth parents, including domestic partners
Applies to team members working 30+ hours per week after 30 days of continuous employment
Job Stability
Opportunities for Career Growth
Hands-On Approach
Customer Focus
Culture for Fostering Teamwork
Respected Leaders
People First Culture
Shift Overview: Monday - Thursday, four 9-hour days 6:30am-4:00pm and Friday 6:30am-10:30am
Job Summary:
The positions within a fabricator are responsible for checking job sheets and setting up machines for operations. Sets up includes but is not limited to brake presses and lasers to cut, shape, form and bend metal into specified dimensions and angles.
Your Impact:
• Read job orders and/or blueprints for specification such as material, type, and size of stock, and dimension to be cut
• Operate a variety of different machines and equipment
• Load/unload materials into machines and equipment
• Obtain and transfer stock to machine, operating a forklift when necessary
• Start machine and observe operation
• Measure work for conformance to specifications
• Maintain a safe and clean work environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
• Maintain a positive working attitude and environment
• Mentoring and training new team members to set them up for success
• Follow designated procedures for preventative and scheduled maintenance on machines
Sort and tag parts for routing.
Perform quality inspection of product.
Regular attendance required.
Minimum Qualifications:
- 6 months or more of experience working in a manufacturing environment OR High School Diploma or equivalent education.
Standout Qualifications:
• Previous experience operating fabrication machines.
• Previous experience using measuring devices, including but not limited to tape measures, height gauges, calipers, and protractors.
• Previous experience using various small and pneumatic hand tools.
• Ability to read blueprints.
Key Abilities Needed to Complete Essential Functions
- Perform assigned tasks
- Demonstrate strong interpersonal communication skills
- Recognize and react to abnormal operating conditions
- Use and wear personal protective equipment as indicated by the task or environment
- Hear safety alarms and other co-workers
- Perform basic counting tasks
- Read tape measure, safety manuals, work orders, and blue prints effectively
- Follow instructions from supervisors and other co-workers
- Understand and identify safety issues
- Maintain balance when walking and standing on potential slippery work floor
- Maintain balance when climbing on a portable step to retrieve parts
- Individually lift and manipulate parts/equipment weighing up to 50 pounds
- Operate an overhead hoist to assist with heavy lifting of parts, materials, and equipment
- Tolerate constant standing and walking throughout the shift
- Use both hands for tool and machine operation, carrying of parts, and assisting co-workers with heavy lifting of parts
- Operate and access heavy equipment safely and effectively
- Remember task sequence and safety constraints
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 [email protected].
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.
Other facts
About Oshkosh Corporation
Moving the world forward.
Oshkosh (NYSE: OSK) is a global industrial technology company that pioneers innovation, engineers solutions and transforms industries to empower everyday heroes.
Using electrification, autonomy, artificial intelligence and connectivity, Oshkosh designs and manufactures scalable, adaptable and purpose-built solutions for some of the world’s toughest jobs under the brands of JLG®, Hinowa, Pierce®, Power Towers, MAXIMETAL, Oshkosh® Defense, McNeilus®, IMT®, Jerr-Dan®, Frontline™ Communications, Oshkosh® Airport Products, Oshkosh® AeroTech and Pratt Miller.
We make a difference in people’s lives by creating mission-critical equipment that serves the everyday hero. Our innovation is people focused and developed by sharing advances across our portfolio of companies. For us, it’s about moving the world forward through building, serving and protecting communities.
Our purpose: Make a difference in people’s lives.
Global team members: approximately 17,000
What you'll do
- Fabricators are responsible for checking job sheets and setting up machinery like brake presses and lasers to cut, shape, form, and bend metal according to specified dimensions and angles. This includes operating equipment, loading/unloading materials, measuring work for conformance, and maintaining a safe work environment.
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