TME Engineering Industrial Placement Scheme 2025 - Deeside Engine Plant

Toyota Motor Europe (TME) handles the wholesale marketing of Toyota and Lexus vehicles, parts & accessories, and manages Toyota’s European R&D, manufacturing, and engineering operations. The Production Engineering department are responsible for various aspects of process planning, design and development of equipment, infrastructure and associated processes supporting new vehicle project introductions into European Manufacturing Centres (EMCs).

Throughout your industrial placement you will take responsibility and support existing engineers/maintenance specialists from initial planning and specification stage to an agreed final handover to the customer within our manufacturing facilities in the UK and Europe. You will also also be responsible for total project management of your given objectives in accordance with Toyota and local requirements including achieving successful handover to the plant on completion, or appropriate milestones during the assignment.

Whilst you will be mainly based in the TME UK Office in Deeside, North Wales, it is essential that you are adaptable and willing to travel to various location within our Manufacturing facilities as required/requested.

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 our Unit (Engine & Transmission) Production Engineering division.

You will participate in the study, planning and preparation of new projects with activities including:

• Process planning for new parts (cost, timing and resource planning).
• Introduction of new parts for production based on prepared plans.
• Technical documentation preparation – tools and process drawings.
• Preparation of production trials, leading the trials.
• Analyse trial results, development of countermeasures, reporting to management.
• Achieve all requirements for parts introduction to production.
• Follow-up production results of implemented parts, react to problems.
• Improvement of production condition.
• Cooperation with related departments (e.g. design, quality, production)

What we look for:

Our engineers are greatly valued and are essential to the success of the business, planning and implementing new equipment, systems and processes. They're also pivotal in bringing the famous Toyota Production System to life - whether refining a process from a technical perspective or assessing the environmental impact of a production change. Ultimately, we want engineers who are versatile enough to work across the whole plant and beyond.

Alongside having a consistently great 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, conducting "go-look-see” activities to visualise problems and logically apply countermeasures with supporting data. You will often be leading and co-ordinating others in mixed teams of Production, Maintenance and Engineers, therefore good interpersonal skills and effective communication are essential to ensure teamwork across projects.

* Manufacturing or Mechanical Engineering discipline (BEng/MEng) required