Toyota Motors - Liberty, NC
posted 2 months ago
Excited to grow your career at Toyota? We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions. If you think the open position you see is right for you, we encourage you to apply! Our people make all the difference in our success. The primary responsibility of this role is to support the production planning department for TBMNC. This analyst will report to the Manager of Production Planning within the Production Control area. Production Planning involves daily, monthly, and annual planning of volume across various production lines and gaining consensus on these plans with stakeholders including the TBMNC executive team, production managers, and our related teams at our headquarters locations. The production planning team is also responsible for capturing the result of the current plan, developing root cause analysis of gaps to the plan, and developing countermeasure suggestions to the management team on how to remedy the problems. Implementation of production plans to improve operational conditions within the scope of TBMNC production lines is a key aspect of this role. The analyst will develop relationships with customers and HQ to identify risks and adapt TBMNC's production plan to ensure customer satisfaction of orders. Coordination of change points with the production teams such as new model launches and trial events in a manner that is best for all of Toyota is essential. The role also involves problem-solving issues that have the potential to impact successful project or launch execution. The analyst will lead coordination across all departments, TMNA, and TMC to countermeasure, yokotening solutions to future projects to prevent a recurrence. Additionally, the analyst will lead, facilitate, and present aspects of company production results including developing and leading the visualization and reporting of key performance indicators, trial and project status, problem-solving, and countermeasures to senior levels of the organization. Following up on the problem-solving activity of all production areas and ensuring product delivery that meets the customer's expectations is crucial. This role requires an ability to multi-task in many areas with conflicting deadlines and priorities, as well as the ability to effectively communicate and work with many individuals and entities at any given time.