We use cookies!

Why? Cookies add flavour to your browsing experience! More information

Set your cookie preferences

Select the type of cookie to be used.
AGO Jobs & HR

Vehicle conversions Project Manager

(m/f/x)

Reference: PO-YE66LIWA /
Online since 30 Apr 2026

Brussel (Haren), BE

Office

Interim

Day - Full-time

Job description

Team/division description

For Toyota, quality is a way of life.  Nothing is so good that it cannot be made better, that is why we strive for continuous improvement in everything we do. This basic principle for us is called: “KAIZEN” and is what guides us in our pursuit of best quality and the delivery of unparalleled customer's satisfaction.

Within the Quality Function of Toyota's European Headquarter, our team is the ultimate responsible to guarantee that the products we are introducing to the market will meet customers' expectations.  Hence, we are responsible to audit, evaluate & improve the overall quality level for European vehicle projects (from concept until start of production).

We are currently looking at supporting our quality operations related to vehicle conversion projects.

Your responsibilities

  • You collect and study past quality concerns to understand how to prevent them in the next vehicle conversion projects 

  • You define and plan the required quality improvement and audit activities for the next vehicle conversion projects together with the related stakeholders in other related departments at Toyota and conversion partners

  • You coordinate and roll out these quality activities throughout the different stages of the project in collaboration with the other stakeholders from quality, Toyota and conversion partner

  • You define and align with related projects stakeholders on the key quality performance indicators and other project mandatory deliverables, follow up these indicators and deliverables continuously and confirm their achievement during each stage/milestone of the project

  • You lead the audit of the converted vehicle's quality level by performing confirmation activities during development stage & during pre-production stage, with support from expert auditors

  • You provide recommendation to the judgement authority about the readiness to release the converted vehicles to the market

  • You continuously look for ways to improve current working methodologies and standardise the learnings and best practises into concrete procedures

Requirements

  • You are fluent in English (Toyota Motor Europe's business language)

  • You have minimum 5years of experience in managing and successfully delivering complex projects

  • You are stress resistant and have strong personal organization competences to prioritize and manage diverse tasks while meeting strict deadlines 

  • You have courage to take initiative with ownership and defend your opinions assertively and with respect

  • You have strong interest in automotive and/or quality, practical experience in those field is an asset

  • You are a team player and actively contribute to the team's success and wellbeing

  • Mastering Microsoft Office tools is a must, other software knowledge (e.g. programming tool) is an asset

  • You are flexible and willing to travel (maximum 20%) across Europe, mostly, and in Japan  

Languages

You have a perfect knowledge of English

Offer

Toyota offers a comprehensive remuneration package, including interesting extra-legal benefits. Toyota provides flexibility to take care of both your career and your personal life by providing hybrid work environment with structural possibility to both work from home & collaborate in the office. 

At Toyota Motor Europe, they are committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all. All recruitment decisions are based on the individual and their qualifications along with the job requirements. The selection process is without regard to nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, date of birth, religion, ethnicity, disability or other personal characteristics. Toyota do not tolerate harassment or discrimination as our individual experiences and overall diversity is a key strength. Together, let's have the power to make a positive change and go beyond the ordinary. If you need any specific consideration for the interview process due to disability or any other reason, please let the recruiter know.

Contract: Long term interim contract (weekly renewed)

Start date: ASAP

End date: 31/12/2027

Full time

Hybrid : Toyota Motor Europe in Evere and possibility for home office

Apply or do you want more information about this job?

Contact

Application form

* required fields

Share this job

Share on Whatsapp Share via email Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn

Most relevant vacancies

Software Quality & Testing Engineer

(m/f/x)

Deinze, BE

Permanent job

Day - Full-time

<ul><li><p>We are looking for a Software Quality &amp; Testing Engineer with a strong affinity for customer support and ambition to grow our software support activities, supporting our customers and continuously improving the reliability of our software platform.</p></li><li><p>In this role, you will take ownership over the incident resolution both on internal and on external environments. Based on the challenges you encounter when launching new software versions on our own machines and with customers, you actively contribute to improved tests, better diagnostics, and higher overall software quality.</p></li><li><p>You will work closely with customers, developers, DevOps, and project colleagues in a demanding industrial context where software stability, reliability, and clear communication are essential.</p></li><li><p>Software Support &amp; Troubleshooting</p><ul><li><p>Analyze, reproduce, and troubleshoot incidents in test, staging, and production environments to reduce implementation risk to an absolute minimum for our clients</p></li><li><p>Investigate logs, error messages, and system behavior to identify root causes</p></li><li><p>Differentiate between software defects, configuration issues, data problems, and usage-related questions. Build a prioritized improvement opportunity list to help the team understand which improvement proposals move the needle most.</p></li><li><p>Communicate clearly with customers by providing status updates, explanations, and practical workarounds, build the processes and tools to enable the latter</p></li><li><p>Take ownership of issues from initial report through resolution and validation</p></li></ul></li><li><p>Quality Improvement, Testing &amp; QA Tooling</p><ul><li><p>Translate recurring or critical support cases into test cases and regression scenarios</p></li><li><p>Validate bug fixes and perform targeted regression and smoke testing</p></li><li><p>Contribute to automated tests for C#/.NET backend services and Angular frontend applications</p></li><li><p>Work with test approaches including unit, integration, end-to-end, and contract testing</p></li><li><p>Use UI and end-to-end testing frameworks such as Cypress, Playwright, or Selenium</p></li><li><p>Support non-functional testing, including performance and reliability checks, where relevant</p></li><li><p>Use real-world support insights to improve test coverage, release confidence, and QA tooling</p></li></ul></li><li><p>Collaboration &amp; Continuous Improvement</p><ul><li><p>Collaborate closely with software developers, DevOps/platform and project teams</p></li><li><p>Act as the customer reality check in engineering and quality discussions</p></li><li><p>Contribute to improvements in logging, diagnostics, and overall product usability</p></li><li><p>Help maintain and improve support processes, guidelines, and known-issue documentation</p></li></ul></li><li><p>Travel &amp; Operational Involvement</p><ul><li><p>Willingness to travel for global deployments and commissioning projects</p></li><li><p>Participate in operational support during critical releases and customer go-lives.</p></li><li><p>Gain hands-on insight into customer environments to continuously improve support effectiveness and test realism</p></li></ul></li></ul>

Application manager

(m/f/x)

Deinze, BE

Permanent job

Day - Full-time

<p>You will provide application-level expertise to guide engineering decisions during the design of coating components and complete coater systems and choosing development directions for rotary sputtering targets. By understanding how customers use our technology in practice, you will act as a key internal reference for application knowledge and help steer Soleras' innovation roadmap toward developments that matter most to our customers.</p><p>At the same time, you will help strengthen its ability to speak the language of the customer. This means translating customer challenges, requirements, and ambitions into clear technical directions, development opportunities, and concrete engineering tasks.</p><ul><li><p>In this role, you will contribute across several dimensions:</p><ul><li><p><b>Engineering and innovation support</b> by representing customer applications and requirements during the design of coaters, components, targets, hardware, and software.</p></li><li><p><b>Sales enablement</b> by supporting customer interactions from the earliest opportunity identification through concept development, testing, and final acceptance.</p></li><li><p><b>Application ownership</b> across the full value creation process, including post‑sales technical support that often leads to new developments and long‑term customer partnerships.</p></li><li><p><b>Technology showcasing</b> by actively contributing to customer projects, internal development, and demonstrations in the Soleras Application Center.</p></li><li><p><b>The Application Center</b></p><ul><li><p>A central element of this role is close involvement with the <b> Application Center</b>, which plays a key role in keeping customers ahead.</p></li><li><p>The Application Center brings together:</p><ul><li><p>State‑of‑the‑art sputter target technology</p></li><li><p>Advanced smart sputter hardware components</p></li><li><p>Innovative sputter software</p></li><li><p>Fully customized, state‑of‑the‑art coater lines</p></li></ul></li><li><p>Its mission is to showcase ' latest capabilities, support customer-specific application development, enable proof‑of‑concept testing, and help customers make the right technical choices across materials, hardware, and software.</p></li><li><p>As Application Expert or Application Manager, you will actively work in and with the Application Center to support customer projects, internal innovation, and technology demonstrations. You will be one of the ambassadors of philosophy of being always on and focused on keeping customers ahead.</p></li></ul></li><li><p><b>Global Customer Focus</b></p><ul><li><p>This is an internationally oriented role. You will travel globally to visit customers, support application discussions on‑site, troubleshoot challenges, and demonstrate what technology can deliver. You will act as a trusted technical partner who understands both the customer's process environment and technology stack.</p></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul>

More suitable jobs with My AGO

Create your My AGO-profile, set your preference and receive the perfect job vacancies.

Create a profile
Phone icon