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Michael Rohrkaste is Vice President Human Resources. He was appointed to this position in October 2003. Rohrkaste has overall responsibility for human resources initiatives across the corporation and its subsidiaries. These responsibilities include labor and employee relations people development compensation benefits training government compliance and staffing.
Rohrkaste has over 20 years of extensive human resources and management experience in a variety of industries. Prior to joining Oshkosh in 2003 he spent nine years at Menasha Corporation most recently as vice president of human resources for the corporation’s largest subsidiary. Here he had broad human resources responsibilities including chief spokesperson for labor contract negotiating. Before joining Menasha Rohrkaste held various human resource management positions at Heller Financial (a diversified middle market commercial lender) and Unisys Corporation (a computer and services firm). He began his career at Miller Brewing Company where he held a number of human resources and field sales positions.
Rohrkaste holds bachelor’s degree in social science and a master’s degree in labor and industrial relations in social science from Michigan State University. | 