Workplace Interior Designer Internship

Company Information:
**TOYOTA** is one of the world’s largest automobile manufacturers and a leading global corporation. Founded in 1937. Toyota now sells vehicles in 170 countries and employs over 350.000 people. Based in Brussels, Belgium, and staffed by 2.700 people and more than 60 nationalities, 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.

We are excited to be transforming into a mobility company focusing on bringing even more happiness to our customers through various mobility solutions.

Your team and your responsibilities:
**Team/division description**

As part of People & Site Services (P&I), the Strategic Workplace Planning (SWP) team is responsible for the Workplace & Office of the Future, Carbon Neutrality of our facilities and management of the pan-European Real Estate Portfolio.

This includes Toyota’s European Head Office and Technical Centre in Brussels, Toyota Parts Centre Europe in Diest, the 13 Regional Depots (RDO’s) and 6 Vehicle Logistic Hubs (VLG) in Europe.

Strategic Workplace Planning works closely together with the (Supply Chain) Workplace Experience teams that implement our concepts.

**Your project**

The Intern Workplace Design will conduct a project to re-define Toyota’s **visual Corporate Identity for the Workplace **and **re-design the lobby and atrium** of our European Head Office. This project is mainly focussed on a corporate office evironment, but also covers social facilities at warehouses and vehicles hubs in Europe:

- Analyse the business, company culture and the workforce to uncover the underlying requirements for the workplace’s visual identity
- Benchmark What Does Good Look Like (WDGLL): companies that offer attractively and consistently designed workplaces where people want to work, promoting the company’s core values and business strategy
- Define the essential building blocks of Toyota’s visual Corporate Identity for the Workplace (colour and material schemes, etc.)
- By site typology (HO/TC, TPCE, Regional Depots, Vehicle Logistic Hubs - both for owned and leased sites) and workplace zone (see below list), draft a set of **visual design guidelines**
- Home Base: Quiet area for concentrated, focused working
- Open Plan: Open workspace supporting communication and collaboration
- Meeting Room: Conferencing, workshops, co-lab and training sessions
- Break-out Areas: Informal working, break time and chat
- Touchdown: A zone for spontaneous, flexible working
- Refuge Area: A sanctuary for confidential conversations, meditation, decompression, reflection, mourning, etc.
- Resource Room: Kitchenettes, sanitary facilities, equipment and stores
- Inter-zone Corridors: Reactivate and focus body and mind
- Exterior Areas: How to best utilise for any of the above
- ** Re-imagine the entrance area and atrium of our European Head Office** to a lively and welcoming marketplace that promotes Toyota’s mobility solutions and corporate identity & values and encourages social interaction.
- In all of the above, ensure these design elements contribute to a **diverse and inclusive workplace** that welcomes and caters for the needs of all colleagues, regardless of their culture, age, gender, orientation, (dis)ability and neurodivergence

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Your Profile:

- You have a passion for interior design and follow up trends closely
- You design inspiring, harmonious and home-like places where people are drawn to
- You are flexible and open to customer feedback and update your designs accordingly
- You are fluent in English (TME business language)
- You are completing or have completed a Bachelor in Interior Design
- Previous working experience in designing corporate workplaces is an asset
- You master a recent AutoCAD version or at least can convert your drawings to an Autodesk format
- Presentation Skills: you can draft convincing story lines and materialise these in concise and visually appealing presentations that you present with passion

**Place of employment**
- Belgium - Brussels (Evere) : Toyota Motor Europe, Head Office, with - whenever required - site presence at
- Belgium - Diest: Toyota Parts Centre Europe
- Belgium - Zeebrugge: Vehicle Logistics Hub
- Due to the Pan-European nature of the position, occasional travel to our pan-European sites may be required

**Starting date**
- As soon as possible, but not later than September ’24.

**Duration**
- 6 months

**Confidentiality**

**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)**

**We offer**

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