Internship Transportation Specialist

Get to know your team and responsibilities

Team/division description

You will be part of Operations Control Division, Operations Management Transportation department.

Our Mission is being a high-performing, engaged, dynamic, skilled, and self-managing Toyota-team, organising and managing international & retail transports to deliver parts and accessories to the regional warehouses and facing dealers, in a cost efficient manner with minimal impact on environment and safety, exceeding our Customers & Stakeholders expectations.

• Your area of responsibility will be our International & Retail (last mile) transport flows of Toyota & Lexus Spare Parts and Accessories
• Your core tasks will be:
  • Day-to-day Operational support within our Retail team
  • Support of below projects to both International and Retail team:
    • BR-T (Business Reform Transformation): support our waste reduction activity within transportation by data-gathering and processing of data through gemba-activities
    • Shippeo: analysis of provided data to support introduction of our new container tracking-tool called “Shippeo”
    • Study of TPCE pré-parking usage by data-gathering and processing of data through gemba-activities
    • Support the introduction of a Ticketing system within Retail for Customer-complaints
    • Support with the monthly settlement of transport invoices

Who are we looking for?

Your profile

Education level: Bachelor degree or higher

Talents that will help to love this job:

• • Professional, effective, assertive and respectful communication is required, both verbally and written (e-mail/phone/meeting).  You speak & write English fluently.
  • Achieving project output in-time is key for you and you want to drive the business to achievement.  In order to make this happen, you take initiative, and you know how and when to push/escalate for result whilst maintaining good stakeholder relationship
  • You take initiative and have the courage to pull people together and coordinate activities towards success.
  • Open to get & give feedback through frequent and efficient alignment-meetings
  • You enjoy working in a team and understand that diverse personalities & perspectives provide better solutions.
  • You see challenges as a development opportunity and demonstrate flexibility when required by the team or business.
  • Functionally you have a strong knowledge of Office 365 applications (excel, access, PBI), ERP system or OTM applications.
  • Challenging thinking ivo admin/non-value adding processes.  Interest/skills ivo automation is a plus.
  • Toyota is a fact based company and kaizen is our DNA, hence you will need to switch between analytical and creative thinking.
  • Ability to translate findings into concrete proposals/actions
  • As the scope is broad, strong planning and organisation, with clear focus, will be needed to be in charge of your own journey and to take action with minimal direction.
  • Agile to learn new culture, skill, and knowledge as environment, society and customer’s requirements change rapidly.
  • A good sense of humour, a great work ethic and the will to create fun at work 

Starting date

•  November

Duration

•  6 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)

Our offer

We offer a dynamic multicultural work environment with broad opportunities to learn every day and exciting career pathways that help you explore different disciplines or areas of expertise.

Your benefits

• Flexible working hours and hybrid working (homeworking, 10 days from abroad);
• Company restaurant – Warm dishes, salads and desserts daily, including Japanese and traditional Belgian specialties, as well as a vegan/vegetarian option;
• Sport facilities – Tennis, squash, volleyball, football and softball pitches are available at various Toyota sites;
• Team building activities and other personnel related events;
• Programs to support your physical and social well-being.