Oshkosh Truck Corporation Employer Reviews

Every day started out with a stand up meeting, this gave us direction and expectations for the days work.( good management)
I've learned you can accomplish more if you operate as a team.
The hardest part of the job is when a coworker has a bad attitude, doesn't happen to often, but sometimes life gets the best of us.
the most enjoyable part of the job – more... is the people you work with, the friendships that are made. – less

Good paying job considering it's basic assembly work. People you work with are decent. Some managers listen to you and are great to work with, they often quit or get fired. Other managers are a pain in the butt, they often get promoted.

Liked the company, I think there is a lot of potential. What I found frustrating was the fact that I really wanted – more... to move up from the floor and found little to no opportunity for making that happen. – less

Pleasant company to work for but very strict and protective of company image.

Corporate leadership is severely lacking and people are leaving all the time because of it.

I deal with suppliers to get quotes on parts we sell and parts we are looking to sell in the future. I came up with many process improvements that we have implemented. One process now take 1/3 the time it did prior to my involvement. The most enjoyable part of my job is my project work, where I get to problem solve and implement processes that save – more... the company time and money. – less

All in all not a bad place to work. You make good money but not very challenging for the mind

Repairing military trucks in reprocessing dept fixing hydraulic and air leaks installing part shortages and fixing defects found by product delivery inspectors.Constantly learning how to fix or repair defects with the trucks always something new.Management is good.Work with a bunch of great guys.not getting frustrated when same defect continues to happen.Working – more... together as a team to produce a good product and have fun doing it – less

Used D/A (Accu-Pulse) welding process to weld galvanized and military grade armor.

Typical day presents many challenges to overcome, many are overcome as a team and the rest are overcome individually. Learned a lot about our U.S. government, The Army, and The Marine Corps. Management changed a lot as I was there. Currently I am on my 23rd boss in less than 4 years of employment. The most enjoyable part of my job is knowing that the – more... product I am building will save soldiers lives! – less

Enjoy working here. Positive team environment. I currently work with all the teams at Oshkosh Corporation working on goals to inprove Quality, Productivity, Safety. and to Reduce Operating Supplies. Prior to this I worked in the Material Dept.,Assembly area and as a Prep and Trim Technician. Always a rewarding experience knowing you are helping to support – more... our country building military vehicles. – less

put parts away with a forklift and also picked parts off list to be sent. learned how to pick parts. managment was good at first then after main supervisor went away to another shift whole job went downhill. Good co-workers but bad management and made the job very hard to keep wanting to go back the next day. hardest part of the job was putting up with – more... the supervisors. best part of my job was driving the forklift putting parts away – less

Production line assembly work. Many different job duties.

Excellent pay and benefits. Working at this company requires a different balance of work ethic and morals than I was accustomed to. The politics within this corporation make for a difficult work environment that affects all employees from the shop floor to upper management. If you want to work here, leave your opinions, humanity, and morality at the – more... door. Plan to work harder, not smarter. – less

good young company but against all the other contractor company out there they had a hard time managing different people and being that they are such a young company they did not have the experience to compete with other companies as far as wages and overall logistics and management of their employees that were being deployed to the combat zone.

People and Products are Great.
Learned alot about production of military vehicles
Goverment contracts

Oshkosh/JLG has a "bumping" policy which is unfair and biased towards its employess. all in all a great company.

Oshkosh is not an overall bad place to work. However, management is never on the same page with one another. I like that OSK gives young people opportunity, but it does come with a price. Many inexperienced managers do not know how to effectively manage.

Working with Dutch Military on a German Base
Interaction with different cultures
No co workers
Understanding Dutch Language
Doing a great job and knowing that the Dutch Guys were safe using equipment that I had cared for

I worked for Oshkosh for a short period of time, and all I can say is to NOT work here. No matter if you are going to be salaried, or hourly union worker. The culture bred at this place is absolutely horrible and this comes from having 20 years experience within manufacturing.

Once you complete your orientation, they put you on the shop floor. After – more... a couple days of following around another Coordinator, they turn you loose and expect everything out of you. The training is an absolute joke. They breed the coordinators to treat the union workers like robots. The company does not take the union seriously, and commonly says that grievances are “Just Paper”

Should you be put in a position where goals are set before you have started there, some of them will not be able to be obtained by your workers, no matter how hard they work. Should you bring it to the attention of upper management that these goals cannot be obtained, you will be labeled as being “Negative”. It does not matter if you show a trending of production levels for a year prior to you coming on the team. It’s the Oshkosh way or the Highway. They do not have any respect for a person with many years of manufacturing experience. They prefer people straight out of college that have no real world manufacturing sense. OR people straight out of the Military, who again, do not have manufacturing experience. IF you know how to mentally beat down a worker and make his morale low, you are the perfect Oshkosh management candidate.

They like to attempt to keep a clean plant and take 5S seriously. To the point of making work areas look like a kindergarten classroom. Do not stand in one spot for too long, otherwise you will have 5S squares around your feet.

Pay is ok until you find out how many hours you can expect to work. Plan on 11-12 hour days, every day. This particular position was paying $59,000 a year salary. Which I was lucky to average $19/hr with the hours worked.

The hourly floor workers are some of the best I have ever worked with. It’s a shame that such a large organization expects managers to treat them with such disrespect. There are many plants within Oshkosh, and I hope my experience was just due to the upper management at that particular facility. – less

Working for Oshkosh is by far one of the best jobs i ever had. This job allow me to work face to face with the customer that been the military .