Human Resources Industrial Placement Scheme 2025

Our approach to people management is different. One of Toyota's Guiding Principles is to foster a respectful, reflective culture where individual creativity and teamwork can flourish. That makes HR a visible and valuable part of our operation. To keep our products progressing and our processes evolving, it's essential that we develop our people. That's where our trainees can make a difference.

Your Time Here:

The Toyota Industrial Placement programme will stretch your problem-solving skills and introduce you to people at all levels, all over the business. It is designed to help you develop your professional and personal capabilities prior to your final year at university and give an opportunity to gain experience as an industry professional. It's a challenging scheme where you’ll receive plenty of support from your mentor, managers, and colleagues. On the Industrial Placement programme, you'll get to see the breadth of our business, working on valuable projects in one of the following areas:

• Organisation Planning and Resourcing – working on designing & delivering recruitment campaigns, leading assessment centres and final interviews, headcount & workforce succession planning, managing internal & external vacancies.
• Employee Relations Planning – working on employee engagement and internal communication strategies; performance & reward; creating and reviewing diversity & inclusion strategies to ensure equality; engaging in a collaborative approach with Unite the Union.
• HR Operations – supporting shop floor supervisors to ensure company rules and standards are followed in terms of attendance and absence, including the company disciplinary and grievance procedures; reviewing daily absence for your assigned shop floor department; supporting supervisor development activities.
• Learning & Development – delivering virtual and classroom training to all occupational levels; carrying out development and training needs analysis to identify business needs for the future; supporting members in their development to achieve their potential, building their emotional intelligence and various interpersonal skills.
• Benefits Administration – getting involved in various aspects of company benefits, including payroll, employee car lease scheme, private healthcare, company pension scheme, on-site nursery, workwear, employee recognition, day to day support for supervisors in terms of HR systems.

Previous IP projects include:

• Running the Apprentice campaign, leading assessment centres and final interviews
• Analysing equal opportunities, monitoring standards, and introducing a standardised reporting format across the business
• Putting together an induction course for agency staff
• Introducing a campaign for local schools to gain work experience through insight weeks at Toyota.
• Designing a recognition toolkit to recognise and reward members' hard work.

What we look for:

Alongside having a consistently excellent academic record, with a minimum 2:1 predicted degree result, we are looking for people who eagerly want to learn from others and are motivated to take on new challenges with a positive mindset. We believe that there's always a better way, therefore if you share our values and thrive on analysing problems from different angles to develop solutions, you could go a long way with us. Similarly, taking a practical approach to your work is important – you will need to be as comfortable on the shop floor as you are in the office.

Additional Requirement: Right to live and work in the UK at the start of placement & ideally UK driving license.