Graduate Quality Engineer – Project

In a nutshell The Project Quality Graduate Engineer will support Toyota Motor Europe’s Project & Audit Division in ensuring new vehicle and mobility projects meet customer expectations. The role involves analysing market trends, identifying past quality concerns, defining improvement priorities, coordinating with European stakeholders and manufacturing plants, and conducting quality audits throughout vehicle development. The ideal candidate holds an engineering master’s degree, demonstrates strong analytical and communication skills, initiative, teamwork, and willingness to travel across Europe and Japan.

In a nutshell The Project Quality Graduate Engineer will support Toyota Motor Europe’s Project & Audit Division in ensuring new vehicle and mobility projects meet customer expectations. The role involves analysing market trends, identifying past quality concerns, defining improvement priorities, coordinating with European stakeholders and manufacturing plants, and conducting quality audits throughout vehicle development. The ideal candidate holds an engineering master’s degree, demonstrates strong analytical and communication skills, initiative, teamwork, and willingness to travel across Europe and Japan.

Company Information

Toyota is one of the world’s largest automobile manufacturers and a leading global company, founded in 1937. Today, Toyota sells vehicles in 170 countries and employs over 350,000 people worldwide.
At Toyota Motor Europe (TME), with our headquarters based in Brussels, Belgium, around 2,700 colleagues from more than 60 nationalities work together across Europe. We are responsible for the wholesale marketing of Toyota and Lexus vehicles, parts and accessories, and we support Toyota’s European R&D, manufacturing, and engineering operations.
We are on an exciting journey as we continue to evolve into a mobility company. Our goal is to create even more value and happiness for our customers through a wide range of mobility solutions.

Team Description

Your team and your responsibilities

For Toyota, Quality is a way of life. Nothing is so good that it cannot be made better, that is why we strive for continuous improvement in everything we do. This basic principle for us is called: “KAIZEN” and is what guides us in our pursuit of best Quality and the delivery of unparalleled customer’s satisfaction.
Within the Quality Function of Toyota’s European Headquarter, our team is the ultimate responsible to guarantee that the products and services we are introducing to the market will meet Customers’ expectations.
Hence, we are responsible to audit, evaluate & improve the overall quality level for European vehicle projects (from concept until Start of Production).
We are currently looking for an additional team member that would reinforce our vehicle projects’ quality activities.

Your Responsibilities

• You analyse Quality related market trends and Customers’ requirements by using various surveys & research in Europe and develop European customer satisfaction improvement requirements for next vehicle or mobility projects
• You collect and study past Quality concerns to understand how to prevent them in the next vehicle projects
• You use your analysis results to plan & implement key Quality improvement priorities for new projects together with the related project stakeholders in other related departments at Toyota and European Manufacturing Plants (EMC). These priorities will be followed up during each stage of the project
• You define and align with related projects stakeholders on the required Quality activities and key Quality performance indicators for new vehicles projects and confirm them during each stage/milestone of the project
• You audit the product, parts, or service’s quality level by performing confirmation activities during development stage & during pre-production stage
• You provide recommendation towards the readiness judgement to release the vehicle or mobility projects to the market

You continuously look for way to improve current working methodologies and standardise the best practises into concrete procedures

Your Profile

For TME Graduate positions we are targeting recent University Graduates (less than 18 months of experience excluding internships)

• You have a master’s degree in engineering
• You have strong interest in automotive and mobility, practical experience in those fields is an asset
• You are fluent in English (TME’s business language)
• You are curious, fact based and have strong analysis skills
• You have courage to take initiative with ownership and defend your opinions assertively and with respect
• You are a team player and actively contribute to the team’s success and wellbeing
• You are stress resistant and have strong personal organiza