Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada Reviews

Pros

Lot of paid overtime, good benefit

Cons

you have to follow a very Strict timeline

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

great company to learn a lot

Cons

do not have internal development opportunity

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Modernize the office rules because most of the rules are outdated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

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

My work experience has been excellent, allowing me to learn the highly regarded Toyota Way. Toyota has a very different corporate structure and culture.

Cons

Toyota has a very rigid work environment, with very structured employee roles. Knowing so, not all employees may be prefer this style.

Advice to Senior Management

Working at Toyota has been an excellent learning experience for my young and early career, and definitely taught me many useful things.

Pros

Great organizational culture, where personal development is stressed. Sometimes feels like a family with the small head office. Events to attend. Subsidized cafeteria. Part of an organization who is heavily devoted to CSR.

Cons

The organizational structure is very flat. This can be seen as a bad thing as it might take you longer to move up.

Advice to Senior Management

Having worked at other companies, it seemed like performance was not emphasized as much as it could of been. Perhaps this was just my role, but I would advise management to connect personal growth with performance.

Pros

- Reputatino as a great manufacturer is great
- Great people
- Good opportunities to learn and grow
- Rewarded with opportunities for hard work and delivering on projects

Cons

- Hours of work are a little long in some instances.
- Opportunities for advancement were good when new plant started, but have now been saturated.

Advice to Senior Management

- Foster a level of innovation between pilot launches.
- Increase Japan exposure to younger engineers or use as reward to all for good work as there is lots to learn from working in Japan.

Pros

Decent base pay - overtime is what makes it competitive.
Interesting work environment
If you are just looking for a job it is a good place to be

Cons

Not a great career environment
Slow upwards movement and no major classification between top performers and the bottom of the pile
Middle level management is uninspiring and protective of their own little corners

Advice to Senior Management

Separate the shop floor team members and the admin and support staff. We should not be treated the exact same as we have different skill sets and aspirations.

Pros

They are flexible with time, days off can be easily arranged provided they are planned ahead and are done for valid reasons. The environment is generally informal and staff are friendly. The cafeteria food is very reasonably-priced and offers enough variety.

As a contractor, benefits are very limited. But a full time employee is entitled to excellent benefits.

Cons

Within information services, there is a disconnect between the desire to work within processes (e.g. ITIL) and the actual work culture (very disorganized). The acknowledgment and need to improve things should come from the top before it can trickle down..

Advice to Senior Management

Provide more open communication with staff.