Top Benefits
About the role
Job Description
Warehouse Operations Leader
Bowmanville, ON (Onsite)
Afternoon Shift (1:30PM – 10:00PM)
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to learn more about our Facility!
Deadline: Please apply before July 22, 2025.
Toyota Canada Inc. (TCI) currently has an exciting opportunity for a Warehouse Operations Leader to support our Eastern Canada Parts Distribution Centre (ECPDC). This role is full-time permanent opportunity on our afternoon shift (1:30PM – 10:00PM), residing in our Bowmanville facility and reporting to the Afternoon (PM) Operations Manager. The selected candidate will have the opportunity to motivate our warehouse team members to meet orders and increase efficiencies.
What We’ll Bring:
Company & Culture
- A work environment built on teamwork, flexibility and respect
- Professional growth and development programs to help advance your career
- A focus on respect for people and continuous improvement
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package including bonus
- Extended health care and dental benefits effective immediately
- Company pension plan with additional employer contributions
- Associate vehicle discount program
- Reimbursement programs (tuition & fitness)
- Sabbatical leave program
What You’ll be Doing:
Leadership & People Development
- Direct warehouse team members in daily activities; places team member and visitor safety as the top priority
- Conduct process observations and documentation to ensure safety and Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) compliance in daily operations
- Promote the ongoing learning and development of team members by providing direct feedback, coaching, mentoring, career path guidance, and addressing performance concerns
- Provide team members with recognition, gap assessment, and overall performance documentation to reinforce career and personal growth
- Coach and develop team members in the use and awareness of Toyota Business Practices (TBP) to develop tools for critical thinking
- Accountable for Health & Safety under provincial and federal acts and abide by and enforce facility and/or regulated safety rules for all at the facility
Communication
- Update Facility Management Development System (FMDS) boards daily
- Present FMDS data in daily huddles to drive team member engagement and curiosity toward critical thinking initiatives
- Oversee process control boards and Kanban stations with team members
- Engage with others daily to ask, “How’s your process?”
- Listen to team members for operational feedback; create ownership of problems and facilitate resolutions
- Use and present TBPs to team members for awareness of current kaizen activities
Continuous Improvement (Kaizen) Activities
- Promote safety activities to reduce overall incidents throughout the facility
- Assess work motions and review standardized work to ensure quality and productivity
- Create work combinations, offer proposals on how many workers are required per shift and what their positions would be
- Identify what is Overburden (Muri), Unevenness (Mura), Waste (Muda), and implement improvements (kaizen)
- Demonstrate, share and teach continuous improvement
- Use Toyota Business Practices (TBP) critical thinking tools to address root causes and develop countermeasures
- Oversee small to medium process improvements through data analytics, TBP, or other practical resolution processes
- Track the progress of all continuous improvement (Kaizen) activities within your team
- Use appropriate strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and encourage change during all stages of Kaizen – Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA)
Operations
- Document safety orientations for team members, facility trades, and business partners on site as needed
- Ensure facility 5-S standard ownership and maintenance
- Oversee shift time and attendance
- Assist facility annual cycle count process completion
- Coordinate the development, updating, and maintenance of SOPs and user guides for your team, shift, or facility
What You’ll Bring:
- High school diploma required; University degree or College diploma in a related discipline is preferred
- 5+ years of experience in a warehouse environment
- Previous supervisory experience is an asset
- Coach, mentor, and develop teams
- Strong analytics and personal initiative with a proven methodology for forming resolutions
- Experience in coordinating and monitoring project processes while developing and communicating guidelines and procedures
- Excellent communicator; prioritize issues and risks to senior leaders
- Work with others at all levels in and outside the organization and harmoniously within a team environment
- Initiate and improve work processes to increase safety, quality, and efficiency
- Strong digital knowledge including MS Excel and MS Access; Power BI and dashboard creation is an asset
About Us
Toyota Canada Inc. is the exclusive Canadian distributor of Toyota and Lexus vehicles. Toyota Canada's head office is in Toronto, with regional offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Halifax. Toyota parts and accessories are distributed through TCI's Parts Distribution Centres in Bowmanville and Vancouver. TCI supports over 287 Toyota and Lexus dealers in Canada with services that include training, sales, marketing, environmental and customer satisfaction initiatives.
What Sets Us Apart?
A focus on people, passion for Toyota, innovation and continuous improvement have made us an award-winning company, recognized worldwide for our technological leadership and superior standards of quality, community involvement and environmental responsibility.
What You Should Know:
Our success begins and ends with our people. We embrace diverse perspectives and value unique human experiences. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer that celebrates the diversity of the communities where we live and do business. Applicants for our positions are considered without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, religion, or any other characteristics protected by law. Please advise us at any point during the recruitment and selection process or your employment if you require accommodation.
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About Toyota Canada
Toyota Canada Inc. (TCI) is the exclusive Canadian distributor of Toyota and Lexus vehicles.
TCI's dedicated associates are driven by a vision to build tomorrow with the exciting work they do today. They are inspired by the opportunity to make a difference in their roles at TCI – whether it's the pleasure of giving customers peace of mind, the thrill of advancing mobility through leading innovation and ever better cars, or the fulfillment of giving back to the communities where they live and work.
With a proud legacy of 50 years in Canada, and recognized as one of one Canada's greenest employers, TCI's head office is located in Toronto, with regional offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Halifax, along with parts distribution centres in Toronto and Vancouver. Toyota also operates two award-winning manufacturing facilities, in Cambridge and Woodstock, Ontario.
Toyota Canada Inc. (TCI) est le distributeur canadien exclusif des véhicules Toyota et Lexus.
Les associés dévoués de TCI sont motivés par le désir de construire demain avec le travail passionnant qu'ils font aujourd'hui. Ils sont inspirés par la possibilité de faire une différence dans leur rôle chez TCI – qu'il s'agisse de la joie d'offrir la tranquillité d'esprit aux clients, du plaisir de favoriser la mobilité via des innovations de pointe et des voitures toujours meilleures, ou de la satisfaction de redonner aux communautés où ils habitent et travaillent.
Avec un fier héritage de 50 ans au Canada, TCI est reconnue comme l'un des employeurs les plus verts au Canada. Son siège est situé à Toronto, avec des bureaux régionaux à Vancouver, Calgary, Montréal et Halifax, et avec des centres de distribution de pièces à Toronto et Vancouver. Toyota exploite également deux usines de fabrication primées, à Cambridge et Woodstock, en Ontario
Top Benefits
About the role
Job Description
Warehouse Operations Leader
Bowmanville, ON (Onsite)
Afternoon Shift (1:30PM – 10:00PM)
Click
here
to learn more about our Facility!
Deadline: Please apply before July 22, 2025.
Toyota Canada Inc. (TCI) currently has an exciting opportunity for a Warehouse Operations Leader to support our Eastern Canada Parts Distribution Centre (ECPDC). This role is full-time permanent opportunity on our afternoon shift (1:30PM – 10:00PM), residing in our Bowmanville facility and reporting to the Afternoon (PM) Operations Manager. The selected candidate will have the opportunity to motivate our warehouse team members to meet orders and increase efficiencies.
What We’ll Bring:
Company & Culture
- A work environment built on teamwork, flexibility and respect
- Professional growth and development programs to help advance your career
- A focus on respect for people and continuous improvement
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package including bonus
- Extended health care and dental benefits effective immediately
- Company pension plan with additional employer contributions
- Associate vehicle discount program
- Reimbursement programs (tuition & fitness)
- Sabbatical leave program
What You’ll be Doing:
Leadership & People Development
- Direct warehouse team members in daily activities; places team member and visitor safety as the top priority
- Conduct process observations and documentation to ensure safety and Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) compliance in daily operations
- Promote the ongoing learning and development of team members by providing direct feedback, coaching, mentoring, career path guidance, and addressing performance concerns
- Provide team members with recognition, gap assessment, and overall performance documentation to reinforce career and personal growth
- Coach and develop team members in the use and awareness of Toyota Business Practices (TBP) to develop tools for critical thinking
- Accountable for Health & Safety under provincial and federal acts and abide by and enforce facility and/or regulated safety rules for all at the facility
Communication
- Update Facility Management Development System (FMDS) boards daily
- Present FMDS data in daily huddles to drive team member engagement and curiosity toward critical thinking initiatives
- Oversee process control boards and Kanban stations with team members
- Engage with others daily to ask, “How’s your process?”
- Listen to team members for operational feedback; create ownership of problems and facilitate resolutions
- Use and present TBPs to team members for awareness of current kaizen activities
Continuous Improvement (Kaizen) Activities
- Promote safety activities to reduce overall incidents throughout the facility
- Assess work motions and review standardized work to ensure quality and productivity
- Create work combinations, offer proposals on how many workers are required per shift and what their positions would be
- Identify what is Overburden (Muri), Unevenness (Mura), Waste (Muda), and implement improvements (kaizen)
- Demonstrate, share and teach continuous improvement
- Use Toyota Business Practices (TBP) critical thinking tools to address root causes and develop countermeasures
- Oversee small to medium process improvements through data analytics, TBP, or other practical resolution processes
- Track the progress of all continuous improvement (Kaizen) activities within your team
- Use appropriate strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and encourage change during all stages of Kaizen – Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA)
Operations
- Document safety orientations for team members, facility trades, and business partners on site as needed
- Ensure facility 5-S standard ownership and maintenance
- Oversee shift time and attendance
- Assist facility annual cycle count process completion
- Coordinate the development, updating, and maintenance of SOPs and user guides for your team, shift, or facility
What You’ll Bring:
- High school diploma required; University degree or College diploma in a related discipline is preferred
- 5+ years of experience in a warehouse environment
- Previous supervisory experience is an asset
- Coach, mentor, and develop teams
- Strong analytics and personal initiative with a proven methodology for forming resolutions
- Experience in coordinating and monitoring project processes while developing and communicating guidelines and procedures
- Excellent communicator; prioritize issues and risks to senior leaders
- Work with others at all levels in and outside the organization and harmoniously within a team environment
- Initiate and improve work processes to increase safety, quality, and efficiency
- Strong digital knowledge including MS Excel and MS Access; Power BI and dashboard creation is an asset
About Us
Toyota Canada Inc. is the exclusive Canadian distributor of Toyota and Lexus vehicles. Toyota Canada's head office is in Toronto, with regional offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Halifax. Toyota parts and accessories are distributed through TCI's Parts Distribution Centres in Bowmanville and Vancouver. TCI supports over 287 Toyota and Lexus dealers in Canada with services that include training, sales, marketing, environmental and customer satisfaction initiatives.
What Sets Us Apart?
A focus on people, passion for Toyota, innovation and continuous improvement have made us an award-winning company, recognized worldwide for our technological leadership and superior standards of quality, community involvement and environmental responsibility.
What You Should Know:
Our success begins and ends with our people. We embrace diverse perspectives and value unique human experiences. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer that celebrates the diversity of the communities where we live and do business. Applicants for our positions are considered without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, religion, or any other characteristics protected by law. Please advise us at any point during the recruitment and selection process or your employment if you require accommodation.
#LI-SK1
#LI-Onsite
About Toyota Canada
Toyota Canada Inc. (TCI) is the exclusive Canadian distributor of Toyota and Lexus vehicles.
TCI's dedicated associates are driven by a vision to build tomorrow with the exciting work they do today. They are inspired by the opportunity to make a difference in their roles at TCI – whether it's the pleasure of giving customers peace of mind, the thrill of advancing mobility through leading innovation and ever better cars, or the fulfillment of giving back to the communities where they live and work.
With a proud legacy of 50 years in Canada, and recognized as one of one Canada's greenest employers, TCI's head office is located in Toronto, with regional offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Halifax, along with parts distribution centres in Toronto and Vancouver. Toyota also operates two award-winning manufacturing facilities, in Cambridge and Woodstock, Ontario.
Toyota Canada Inc. (TCI) est le distributeur canadien exclusif des véhicules Toyota et Lexus.
Les associés dévoués de TCI sont motivés par le désir de construire demain avec le travail passionnant qu'ils font aujourd'hui. Ils sont inspirés par la possibilité de faire une différence dans leur rôle chez TCI – qu'il s'agisse de la joie d'offrir la tranquillité d'esprit aux clients, du plaisir de favoriser la mobilité via des innovations de pointe et des voitures toujours meilleures, ou de la satisfaction de redonner aux communautés où ils habitent et travaillent.
Avec un fier héritage de 50 ans au Canada, TCI est reconnue comme l'un des employeurs les plus verts au Canada. Son siège est situé à Toronto, avec des bureaux régionaux à Vancouver, Calgary, Montréal et Halifax, et avec des centres de distribution de pièces à Toronto et Vancouver. Toyota exploite également deux usines de fabrication primées, à Cambridge et Woodstock, en Ontario