TOYOTA recruits 500 operators for its Valenciennes site (France)

Toyota Motor Manufacturing France (Toyota Valenciennes) has just announced the launch of a recruitment campaign of 500 operators that will increase its workforce to 4,500 people in 2020.

This campaign will enable the Valenciennes site to start production of vehicles on the basis of the new TNGA architecture for which investments of 300 million euros are currently committed.

This project announced in January 2018 is concretized by a progressive modernization of the various workshops with work that will continue over the coming months.

In accordance with the company's recruitment policy, the 500 new production agents will be recruited without any requirement for a diploma or professional experience and will be offered for the most part an 18-month fixed-term contract. Each new recruit will undergo an adapted training of 3 to 4 weeks at the training center located on the site of Toyota and on line of production.

At the same time, the company is continuing hiring on permanent contracts: from 2,938 in January 2018 to 3,150 today and with a target of 3,600 by the end of 2020.

"The Valenciennes site is entering a new era with the industrialization of the TNGA architecture that will enable us to produce the vehicles of the 2020s. The recruitment campaign we are starting will bring our workforce to 4,500 people, a size never achieved since the beginning of the site in 2001. This demonstrates both the vitality of Toyota's sales in Europe and the group's confidence in a high-performance site with a motivated, competent and ready to meet the challenges ahead. " said Luciano Biondo, president of Toyota Motor Manufacturing France.About TMMF:Toyota Motor Manufacturing France, the production site of the Yaris and its hybrid version (petrol / electric), in Onnaing, in the North of France, started its activity on January 31, 2001. The site produces Yaris for the European market . The investments made on the site to date amount to more than 1.5 billion euros. TMMF is one of the cleanest production sites in Europe with constantly improving environmental performance. It is the only Toyota production site in France.