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BPO (Business Planning Office) manages the business planning cycle of the TME Sales Group guided by the wider corporate objectives. The department manages exports of Toyota vehicles manufactured at European plants to other global regions, coordinating with other commercial divisions, Japan and regional distributors. It supports the Sales relate divisions across diverse cross-functional projects and activities relating to Toyota, Lexus and After-Sales. In this role BPO prepares and facilitates a number of cross-functional meetings across the year. Your project:This internship project will be mainly focused in supporting BPO to deliver on key milestones for the business planning cycle with the NMSC (National Marketing & Sales Co.) and supporting the communication of company directions to internal and external audiences.Therefore you will: • You will support the management and administration of European exports• Support the management of the NMSC 3 Year Business Plan process • Prepare templates, follow up on data input with content owners within TME• Be one of key contact points for the NMSC in preparation for the 3 YBP • Coordinate meetings and logistics• Prepare Top Management presentations from storyline to final speech• Support event planning management e.g. Annual Business Conference Additional information:Place of employment: TME Head Office in Brussels (Evere) Starting date: September 2019Expected duration: 6 -7 months to 1 yearConfidentiality: Due to business requirement, not all performed projects can be reflected in the internship report. This issue needs to be discussed with candidate/school in advance. It is mandatory that applicants are students for the entire period of the internship. We can only accept students with an EEA or Swiss citizenship (not requiring a work permit or visa to be eligible to perform an internship in Belgium).
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Akio Toyoda, CEO of Toyota, announced at CES in Las Vegas in January 2018 his ambition to transition Toyota to a mobility company offering ever better mobility to all.As part of this ambition in Europe two entities have been established: Toyota Connected Europe based in London which is the provider of technological solutions, and Toyota Mobility & Connected Car, based in Brussels responsible for setting, planning and implementing the European strategy for connected, multimedia and mobility services.Toyota Mobility and Connected Car division has a clear focus on the Car of Tomorrow. Your responsibilities:As a New Mobility Intern, you will support the team in daily activities and develop your network within key divisions (Connected Car, Sales & Marketing, legal, R&D) and our National Marketing and Sales Companies. You will report to one of our team members within the team of 7 members. We will provide you access to all our internal tools to investigate:• EU mobility trends • Competitors benchmarking• Our markets mobility portfolio and results• Customers’ requirements, needs Which will allow you to contribute in:• Defining our mobility strategy • Your active participation in development of use cases, where main one are: ride hailing and subscription: support value proposition identification, business case definition, building cost structure, defining key activities and key resources, best user journeys, etc, You will also be expected to:• Create presentation materials for executive reports• Structure our strategy & use case documentation• Provide project management support on some individual projects• Provide administrative support where necessary Additional information:• Belgium - Brussels (Evere): Toyota Motor Europe, Head Office,• Starting date: As soon as possible• Duration: minimum of 6 months (Ideally 12 months)Confidentiality: Due to business requirement, not all performed projects can be reflected in the internship report. This issue needs to be discussed with candidate/school in advance. It is mandatory that applicants are students for the entire period of the internship. We can only accept students with an EEA or Swiss citizenship (not requiring a work permit or visa to be eligible to perform an internship in Belgium).
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General Services is responsible for multiple supporting services to all members. It includes four departments:- Corporate Services (catering, travel, business cards, cleaning, handymen, waste, etc.),- Car Fleet (pool cars, company cars, employee car rental program, etc.), - Health & Safety (prevention & safety, wellbeing, risk analysis, etc.) - and Facility Management. We are looking for support in the Facility Management (FM) Department. The FM Department ensures a functional, safe and enjoyable working place. We maintain and upgrade TME infrastructure and equipment in order to guarantee good comfort to all members. The FM department is also responsible for the Environmental Management System (ISO14001) on our two main sites (Toyota Headquarters & Technical Centre). This Environmental Management system allows us to support our initiatives to achieve the Toyota 2050 Environmental Challenge. Your responsibilities:The environmental management system is used to reduce our environmental impact. The FM department has invested in a new building and energy management software (Honeywell). Your task will be to set up this tool allowing us, to monitor, improve our energy performance by reducing our consumption and creating awareness among our members. Our aim is to make the energy management software, the base of a future ISO50001 system.In order to achieve our 2050 Environmental Challenge, together with the FM department, you will define the long and middle term actions that will reduce our CO2 footprint. You will follow up the implementations of these measures with the impacted stakeholders and report progress towards management. Additional information:• Belgium - Brussels (Evere): Toyota Motor Europe, Head Office. • Starting date: As soon as possible• Duration: minimum of 6 months It is mandatory that applicants are students for the entire period of the internship. We can only accept students with an EEA or Swiss citizenship (not requiring a work permit or visa to be eligible to perform an internship in Belgium).
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TME R&D centre is responsible for planning, development and production support of vehicles aimed at - and locally produced for - the European market. The Vehicle Comfort team is part of the Vehicle Performance Engineering division (VPE) division and is responsible for the vehicle NVH (Noise, Vibration and harshness) according EU customer expectations. We aim at the development of attractive and „fun to drive“ cars matching European market requirements and customer expectations. Using state-of-the art experimental and numerical methods, we develop strategies to achieve the targets, and validate them on virtual and physical prototypes. Your project:Gear noise and motor noises in electric vehicles (EV) are typically high-frequency, and are easy to cause annoyance. In order to control this annoying noise for the vehicle occupants, all the different transfer paths between the gearbox (or EV motor) and the interior cavity need to be controlled carefully. You will contribute to an ongoing research project where the main goal is to set suitable targets and assess the performance for the different components involved in the transmission of gear noise from its source to the vehicle interior. You will:• Continue the ongoing study to relate on-vehicle and on-bench component evaluation through the use of substructuring theory.• Work out a suitable procedure for component performance assessment, based on the results of this ongoing research. • Investigate the opportunities for usage of CAE models to improve efficiency and / or accuracy of this procedure• Validate the new developments through component and full-vehicle evaluation. It is mandatory that applicants are students for the entire period of the internship. We can only accept students with an EEA or Swiss citizenship (not requiring a work permit or visa to be eligible to perform an internship in Belgium).
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TME R&D centre is responsible for planning, development and production support of vehicles aimed at - and locally produced for - the European market. The Vehicle Comfort team is part of the Vehicle Performance Engineering division (VPE) division and is responsible for the vehicle NVH (Noise, Vibration and harshness) according EU customer expectations. We aim at the development of attractive and „fun to drive“ cars matching European market requirements and customer expectations. Using state-of-the art experimental and numerical methods, we develop strategies to achieve the targets, and validate them on virtual and physical prototypes. Your project:Lightweight materials (like e.g. plastic, CFRP etc.) are being used more and more in the automotive industry, to contribute to the improving fuel economy of our cars. It is important to consider the higher (geometrical/material) dispersion of these materials and the impact on the dispersion of the full-vehicle dynamic performance. You will contribute to a research project where we aim to develop new CAE methods taking into account the higher dispersion effect of the new lightweight materials on low-frequency NV (Noise and Vibration) performance. More specifically you will support the development of stochastic methods for NV target setting and performance development. This will include:• Organise and support the vehicle testing for new materials to identify NV performance dispersion,• Investigate current state-of-art stochastical methods in vehicle CAE development, specifically in NV-CAE, • Review different stochastic target setting & development approaches and apply them in a CAE study on a pilot component or structure,• Validate one of the approaches by performing a confirmation test on a vehicle. It is mandatory that applicants are students for the entire period of the internship. We can only accept students with an EEA or Swiss citizenship (not requiring a work permit or visa to be eligible to perform an internship in Belgium).
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Vehicle Logistics (VLG) is responsible for the multi modal transportation of Toyota and Lexus vehicles from our Overseas and Local Plants, to ports of export, inland compounds and/or retailers in Europe.For European markets, where we assume responsibility until retailer delivery, our vehicles are Customised (Post Production Option Installations) and Quality checked (Pre Delivery Inspection) in our hubs, strategically located within Europe.Through the fundamentals of Safety and Quality, VLG's core mission is to achieve on time delivery lead-time, in the shortest lead-time, to Toyota retailers in Europe. This critical activity involves system enhancements, daily reporting and countermeasure implementation (transportation and hub workload management), from vehicle line-off to retailer delivery through Toyota Production System principles Your responsibilities:To support the above, our team is responsible to:1) Assure Customer Satisfaction for Vehicle Logistics Services• Communication with specific European Markets that will be allocated to you and improve service levels for on-time vehicle arrivals, especially related to New Model Launches and Campaigns. 2) Operations Efficiency Improvement:• Understand and analyse operational issues for the Vehicle Ordering process and define an action plan to improve efficiency by developing standards and systems after building consensus internally andextern a Hy on your findings and implementation of countermeasures.• Analyse current accessory introduction approval method and propose efficiency improvement ideas. Additional information:Place of employment: BrusselsStarting date: As soon as possible Duration: 12 months (6 months mini.)Confidentiality: Due to business requirement, not all performed projects can be reflected in the internship report. This issue needs to be discussed with candidate/school in advance. It is mandatory that applicants are students for the entire period of the internship. We can only accept students with an EEA or Swiss citizenship (not requiring a work permit or visa to be eligible to perform an internship in Belgium).
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Your team: Vehicle Performance Engineering – Model Based DevelopmentThe VPE-MBD team within R&D has the role of providing simulation models and virtual evaluation tools to the specific vehicle dynamics performance teams (handling, ride comfort, drivability, brake control), as well as defining more advanced performance indicators to support vehicle project development target setting. Your projectDevelop an efficient process for design space explorationYour mission will be to balance the use of vehicle performance simulation models with state of the art techniques for surrogate modelling and adaptive sampling to identify feasible design regions. Given the complexity of practical application cases, you will need to define a step by step approach to optimal design, considering performance dependencies and parameter sensitivities. It is mandatory that applicants are students for the entire period of the internship. We can only accept students with an EEA or Swiss citizenship (not requiring a work permit or visa to be eligible to perform an internship in Belgium).
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Within Electronics Engineering division, ADAS group is in charge of developing and evaluating the future ADAS functions (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems) focusing on our customer comfort and safety. Those systems, e.g. Toyota Safety Sense, are using sensors such as camera, radar, ultrasonic devices. Your responsibilities:As intern, you will contribute to improve the efficiency of camera-based ADAS function evaluation and accelerate validation by:• Analysing current procedure of ADAS function evaluation• Researching state of the art procedures and tool-chains for ADAS evaluation• Identifying proposals for potential improvements• Setting-up new procedure and tool-chain with increased automation to establish ground truth for validation• Implementing re-simulation loop (SiL – Software in the Loop) to confirm effectiveness of logic/parameter changes to the ADAS function It is mandatory that applicants are students for the entire period of the internship. We can only accept students with an EEA or Swiss citizenship (not requiring a work permit or visa to be eligible to perform an internship in Belgium).
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The Production Planning division is at the heart of Toyota’s manufacturing operations. From our headquarters in Europe we manage the short and long term production plan of our 4 vehicle plants and our 3 Engine plants in Europe.All operations are planned and organised in accordance with the concepts of the Toyota Production System (TPS) to achieve Safety, Quality, Just-in-Time and Cost objectives. Your responsibilities:The Production planning department is investigating ways to eliminate inefficiencies in some of our processes through process kaizen and tasks automatization. To support this activity, the selected candidate will support with:• Automatization of the kaizen identified by the Production planners• Collaborate in the analysis of our process flows to identify potential areas of improvement• Support Production Planners during the monthly peaks handling some daily tasks• Generate and issue some of the key reports which are used to share production planning results and KPIs with top management and other stakeholders• Administrative task support where required Additional information:Starting date: Flexible between November 2019 and early January 2020Duration: 6 months (up to 12 Months)Confidentiality: Due to confidentiality requirements, not all details on performed projects can be reflected in the internship report. This issue needs to be discussed with candidate/school in advance. It is mandatory that applicants are students for the entire period of the internship. We can only accept students with an EEA or Swiss citizenship (not requiring a work permit or visa to be eligible to perform an internship in Belgium).
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Team/division:The Manufacturing Planning, Export function is at the heart of Toyota’s manufacturing operations. From our headquarters in Europe and Turkey we manage global export of production parts collected from suppliers and delivered to the global manufacturing base. The scope of the operation includes:- 200+ parts suppliers- 40+ manufacturing locations- Shipments from 5 vanning centres as well as direct shipments from regional plantsAll operations are planned and organised in accordance with the concepts of the Toyota Production System (TPS) to achieve Safety, Quality, Just-in-Time and Cost objectives. Your responsibilities:In regards to an ongoing roll-out of a new global production parts export project, we are reviewing our Parts Ordering Management Processes to achieve ever better levels of JIT.The objective is to:• Increase the predictability and stability of our parts orders to allow parts suppliers and logistics partners to make a better planning.• Identify sudden supply fluctuations to eliminate supply issues at an early stage and reduce the amount of abnormalities.You will:• Support historic data analysis to determine risk areas in our supply chain and supplier management.• Support the development of temporary quality gates and sustainable solutions.• Set up a proactive supplier and operations management framework.• Identify trends early and offer a tool box to work with suppliers and logistics partners to tackle issues before the global manufacturing base is hit by parts supply concerns. Additional information: • Belgium - Brussels (Evere) : Toyota Motor Europe, Head Office• Start date: Between August 2019 and October 2019• Duration: 12 monthsIt is mandatory that applicants are students for the entire period of the internship. We can only accept students with an EEA or Swiss citizenship (not requiring a work permit or visa to be eligible to perform an internship in Belgium).
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Our team:Vehicle Performance Engineering – Driving DynamicsTeam of 16 engineers, we are responsible for Advance Driving Assistance System (ADAS), Vehicle Dynamics, suspension, steering and brake for vehicles designed and built in Europe. Our work is shared between vehicle project development, performance improvement, benchmarking and production support (9 manufacturing plants in EU).Your project:DRIVING SIMULATOR STUDY TO ASSESS DRIVER ACCEPTANCE FOR ADAS CONTROL FUNCTIONSWith the expansion and the acceleration of the development of complex ADAS functions it is becoming essential to assess the performance of each system in the early phase of development. In order to establish such methodology we are developing our newly built driving simulator to study driver system interaction in a controlled environment. Your mission will be first to implement ADAS logic into the driving simulator environment, then as a second step develop the Design of Experiment then finally conduct and analyse panel test for the proposed ADAS performance.This internship is suitable for 1 student.Expected workload share:• Driving simulator setup: 30%• Design of Experiment: 30%• Panel test and evaluation: 30%• Documentation: 10% Additional information:Starting date: April 2019 ~ July 2019Duration: 9~12 monthsConfidentiality: Due to business reasons, confidentiality restriction might apply to report and presentation. This needs to be discussed with candidate/school in advance. It is mandatory that applicants are students for the entire period of the internship. We can only accept students with an EEA or Swiss citizenship (not requiring a work permit or visa to be eligible to perform an internship in Belgium).
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Team/division:The Brand & Marketing Communications division at TME (Toyota Motor Europe Headquarter) is responsible to develop Pan-European strategies and communication materials (brand, ATL, BTL, digital, social) to promote our brand and models to consumers with a clear benefit proposition and in line with our Toyota brand strategy.The Brand Communication, social and Olympics/Paralympics partnership team manages:1. Brand campaign development and implementation;2. Social media strategy, asset development and influencer activation;3. Activation of Toyota’s global Olympics/Paralympics partnership.This is done in a cross-departmental approach within TME and in collaboration with our local NMSCs (National Marketing & Sales Companies). Your responsibilities:1. Project management and support related to social media, social listening & reporting, influencer activations & events, and editorial; 2. Support the team on projects related to Toyota’s Olympics & Paralympics partnerships;3. Support in preparing presentations, analysis or internal documents for key stakeholders and management;4. General department support (coordination, budget administration, follow up with NMSCs. It is mandatory that applicants are students for the entire period of the internship. We can only accept students with an EEA or Swiss citizenship (not requiring a work permit or visa to be eligible to perform an internship in Belgium).
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Can you see the future technologies in Automotive?Working in the heart of Europe, are you ready for an exciting challenge? Join our Purchasing team. Our Division:TME Purchasing plays a key strategic role in the development of our future products. Buyers & Engineers develop and manage all aspects of the commercial relationship between Toyota and its suppliers, located all over Europe. We are on daily communication with our plants to ensure they receive quality products, on time, at competitive price.Body section is responsible for the purchase of functional parts (e.g. lamps, airbags, windows, door outside handle…). We are responsible for the turnover of 800M€ OE (original equipment mass production) parts buying per year and buying tools for new projects for 80M€ per year. Your project:• You will be located in our Technical centre located in Brussels surrounding area. After sales market for glass is a major portfolio. It covers all Toyota vehicles which needs maintenance, sold in Europe, Turkey and Russia. • You will identify business opportunities vs after-market major companies in different markets. To do so, we need to understand all the details with our stakeholders in the markets, after sales division, our suppliers and even with Toyota Japan.• You will clarify the detailed mechanism of data exchange and confirm the full magnitude of today business to create a vision for future opportunities. It is mandatory that applicants are students for the entire period of the internship. We can only accept students with an EEA or Swiss citizenship (not requiring a work permit or visa to be eligible to perform an internship in Belgium). Place of employment: Belgium - Brussels (Zaventem) : Toyota Motor Europe, Technical CentreStarting date: ASAPDuration: 6 monthsConfidentiality: Due to business requirement, not all performed projects can be reflected in the internship report. This issue needs to be discussed with candidate/school in advance.
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Your Team/Division:The Exterior Plastics Development team is responsible for the development of exterior styling & functional plastic accessories (spoilers, skirts, chrome garnishes, body mouldings, off-road parts etc). In close cooperation with involved divisions and multiple global suppliers, the team ensures accessories are developed according to Toyota’s strict quality requirements within schedule and cost targets. Your project:Fixation methods of exterior plastic parts can be grouped into 2 main categories: a) Mechanical fasteners (snap-fit clips, jack-nuts, bolt- or screw fixations)b) Pressure sensitive foam tapes ('Double Sided' tapes) where required combined with adhesion promotors Your task will be to:a) Make proposals for quality optimization and parts standardizationb) Investigate (including testing) and extending the DS-tape design guide for unpainted & grained surfaces (using the software Catia V5)Reference to be made to all available expertise with Toyota Europe R&D and QA Divisions, as well as to existing Toyota technical standards in this area. Place of internship: Toyota Motor Europe head office (Brussels) Starting date: ASAP (to be agreed between the intern – university and TME) Duration: 6 months Confidentiality: due to business requirements, not all aspects of the task can be reflected in the internship report. This issue needs to be discussed with candidate in advance. It is mandatory that applicants are students for the entire period of the internship. We can only accept students with an EEA or Swiss citizenship (not requiring a work permit or visa to be eligible to perform an internship in Belgium).