Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada Reviews in Kitchener, ON Area

Pros

Great Pay
Lots of Project Management Work
With the integration of the Toyota Business Practice, you get to enhance your problem solving skills

Cons

May include a lot of hours working
May have no time for personal appointments
Perfection is usually expected on the job

Advice to Senior Management

Overtime should be optional, not mandatory
Promote from within
Enhance the work - life balance
Modernize the office rules because most of the rules are outdated

Pros

Job for life or as close as you can find to it these days

Cons

Very little room for advancement
Salary increases rarely beat inflation
Industry in decline

Advice to Senior Management

Actually practice the Toyota Way dont just preach it

Pros

Vacation allotment is fair, good benefits, pension.
job variety, good accessibility to all levels of management,
on-the-job training creates competencies.

Cons

Recent cuts (salary/bonus freeze, training cuts, vacation) make uncompetitive environment. Management promotes favorites & talent leaving. Too rigid office rules.

Advice to Senior Management

Promote from within as many companies do. Many long-serving TMs have demonstrated competencies & dedication. Modernize office rules. Work-life balance!!

Pros

Toyota pays about an average engineering base salary, however you get compensated for overtime so your salary ends up being above average. The benefits are pretty good.

Cons

You will work long hours (12 hours a day) and almost every saturday or sunday. You will also not be approved to take your vacation most of the time. Seems like the company is really managed by the japanese and you are just implementing their ideas so you can't really do anything innovative. Basically you are an engineer version of the assembly line workers. Most people who work here too are lifers so its hard to get promoted.

Advice to Senior Management

Try to have some respect for the whole idea of work-life balance, we are not slaves