Purchasing Intern (Summer 2026)

About the 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. The intern position would provide a hybrid of Purchasing and Sourcing support within our Global Procurement Supply Chain (GPSC) team. Moving the future forward is our priority and this includes your future. We encourage professional development and champion our employees’ success through various skills and training opportunities. Named one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies™ by Ethisphere Institute for six consecutive years, everything we do at Oshkosh is guided by our core values and the ~15k+ team members around the world who embody them. We put people first. We do the right thing. We persevere. We are better together.

Responsibilities

• Setup and maintain existing suppliers within the Pierce database.
• Prepare weekly reports for department leads to assist in decision making for the company.
• Partner with cross functional team to gather part drawings and additional part information to support the GPSC sourcing team.
• Maintain and develop relationships with suppliers to obtain cross references of part numbers.
• Liaison between GPSC and Engineering to provide updated part drawings to the supplier.
• Partner with internal cross functional teams to process internal purchasing requests for non-inventory parts and services.
• Complete tax-exempt certificates as needed.
• Assist other team members with the GPSC team with mass price updates in the company ERP system.
• Partner with cross functional team to obtain data to assist with pull estimated date of arrival and annual usages for sourcing team.
• Assist with internal training for the new Supplier Portal.
• Assist with department improvement projects.
• Assist GPSC with past due orders and critical shortages.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Student working towards a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration or related field for entire duration of internship.
• Willing to travel or relocate to Murfreesboro, TN for the Summer of 2026 (relocation assistance provided for those with a permanent address of greater than 50 miles from Murfreesboro, TN)

Standout Qualifications