Lead the shop floor that powers championship performance
At Toyota Racing Development (TRD), our components win races long before the green flag drops. As the Manufacturing Operations Leader, you’ll spend your mornings on the floor see, touch, feel and your afternoons shaping the roadmap that keeps TRD at the forefront of motorsports manufacturing.
What your day looks like
You start with a walk through a fleet of 18+ high-precision, 5-axis CNC machines, aligning teams on the day’s priorities across two workstreams: ultralowvolume, tighttolerance race engine parts and highervolume commercial components. You check OEE dashboards driving performance against 80% targets and huddle with Manufacturing Engineering on process definition, advanced CNC programming, tooling and fixturing. Before lunch, you’re with Production Control, tuning schedules to meet short lead times. In the afternoon, you review inspection data with Quality, reinforcing a culture that raises internal and supplier quality. You close the day scoping ROI, capital plans, and automation, robotics, and AIassisted tools that elevate throughput, quality, and capability.
Scope and impact
- Own endtoend operations strategy: equipment evaluation/selection, ROI and capital justification, process/automation development, facility and personnel planning.
- Lead Managers of Manufacturing Engineering, Production Control, and Quality guiding a ~40member organization from postgraduate engineers to shopfloor technicians.
- Champion a metricsdriven mindset with OEE at the core; sustain 80% on 5axis assets while improving mix, complexity, and lead time.
- Partner across TRD: Planning/Purchasing, Design Engineering, Race Engine Build, Commercial Assembly, and EHS on safety matters impacting manufacturing.
- Advance technology adoption: automation, robotics, and AIassisted analysis/documentation to boost efficiency, quality, and capability.
What you bring
- Bachelor’s in Engineering or Operations Management (Master’s a plus).
- 10+ years in highprecision, automated 5axis CNC environments; 5+ years leading teams/managers.
- Handson mastery of process definition/optimization, production scheduling, and inspection methods.
- Proven success managing to OEE and operational KPIs using data to drive action.
- Advanced experience in complex, tighttolerance, 5axis highspeed milling.
- Fluency with ERP/MRP and shopfloor systems.
- Track record leading 40+ people across multiple functions, including managing managers.
Preferred
- Expert CAM/CAD/toolpath verification; HyperMill strongly preferred; Creo and Vericut a plus.
- Experience with AIassisted tools (e.g., LLMs for analysis, documentation, and process improvement).
- Background with billet, forging, and casting materials.
- Advanced Excel and MS Office skills.
- Designing/machining/assembling fixtures and tooling.
- Building complex production schedules across mixedvolume and mixedcomplexity workstreams.
Travel and compensation
- Travel up to 10%, primarily to TRD facilities and motorsports events.
- Base salary range: $176,400.00 – $305,800.00 annually.
Who we are
Collaborative. Respectful. A place to dream and do. Toyota is one of the world’s most admired brands, advancing mobility with innovative, highquality solutions. TRD is committed to being the most respected motorsports engineering organization and this role is pivotal to that mission.
Important eligibility note
To save time applying, Toyota does not offer sponsorship of job applicants for employment-based visas or any other work authorization for this position at this time.
Belonging at Toyota
Applicants for our positions are considered without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, religion, military or veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by law.
