Group Lead - 1st Shift

About Oshkosh Delivery, an Oshkosh company

Oshkosh Delivery is dedicated to redefining the future of last-mile and commercial delivery. Built on Oshkosh Corporation’s legacy of engineering excellence and innovation, we design and manufacture advanced delivery vehicles that are durable, efficient, and sustainable. With a focus on reliability, driver experience, and cutting-edge technology, Oshkosh Delivery empowers fleets and businesses to move goods smarter, safer, and with confidence, today and for the road ahead.

Primary point of contact between operators and management, helping to maintain workflow, resolve issues, and support continuous improvement initiatives.

Essential Duties:

• Lead and coordinate a team of production operators to meet daily and weekly production targets.
• Ensure all team members follow standard operating procedures (SOPs), safety rules, and quality standards.
• Assign work tasks, monitor progress, and provide real-time feedback to maintain productivity and quality.
• Train and mentor new employees on equipment operation, processes, and safety practices.
• Assist with troubleshooting equipment or process issues and escalate as needed to maintenance or supervision.
• Maintain accurate records of production data, downtime, and material usage.
• Support continuous improvement efforts by identifying and suggesting process or workflow enhancements.
• Communicate effectively with other departments (maintenance, quality, logistics) to coordinate production activities.
• Ensure housekeeping and 5S standards are maintained in the work area.
• Perform production work as needed to meet operational requirements.

Qualifications:

• Ability to communicate with leadership and fellow team members in both written and verbal forms at a level above standard
• 6 months-1 year on production line
• At least five years of applicable experience
• Ability to build team morale and promote people first culture.
• Innovative/creative thinking.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Technology proficient.

Competencies:

• Accountability: Responsible for the consequences of one’s actions
• Analytical Thinking: Requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems
• Attention to detail: Ability to see and become attentive to details
• Cooperation: Ability to work effectively with others to achieve a shared goal, even when the object at stake is of no direct personal interest
• Dependability: Being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations; punctual and meeting work attendance and deadline requirements
• Flexible: Ability to respond, modify, and integrate change with minimal personal resistance
• Identification with Management: Ability and willingness to understand, accept, and carry out decisions and measures from managers
• Initiative: Recognize and create opportunities and act accordingly rather than waiting passively for opportunities to happen
• Innovation: Creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems
• Insight: Having and gaining insight into situations, problems, and processes
• Persistence: Continuance in a course of action despite difficulty or opposition
• Integrity: Adhering to standards, values, and code of conduct within position
• Stress management: Ability to perform under pressure and within fast-paced environments
• Reliability: Extent to which you can be counted on to do what is expected (completing assigned tasks, projects, and meeting deadlines)
• Team-oriented: Working well with others and maintaining a focus and value on team
• Leading: Ability to exert influence through direction and guidance

Working Conditions:

Physical Demands: Prolonged periods of standing and walking. Occasionally required to sit. Must frequently squat, stoop, kneel, reach above the head, and reach forward. Ability to climb ladders, bend, and crawl in awkward spaces. Use of hands and fingers to grasp tools, supplies, and equipment (manual and finger dexterity). Must be able to frequently lift and move up to 50 lbs. on a continuous basis.  Ability to see details at a distance and at close range.

Environmental Demands: Indoors/Outdoors (extreme cold and/or heat); Frequent Task Changes, Tedious/Exacting Work, Dust, Temperature Extremes, Loud Noises. Occasionally work with toxic or caustic chemicals such a petroleum product, degreasers, and spays. Frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes, or ai