Warehouse Operational Manager

Pracovní nabídka

As Assistent Warehouse Manager at Toyota Parts Center Czech (Krupka), you ensure safe, efficient, and high-quality logistics operations. You lead with Toyota values—driving a zero-risk safety culture, continuous improvement, and team development. Key responsibilities include managing warehouse KPIs (safety, quality, operations, cost, compliance, and motivation), optimizing material flows, and implementing lean principles. You oversee daily HR activities, staff training, and performance, while ensuring compliance with legal and corporate standards. With strong leadership, analytical skills, and a hands-on approach, you foster a culture of excellence, customer-first thinking, and operational reliability in a dynamic automotive supply chain environment.

Your team and your responsibilities

• Team description

Organisation, control and monitoring of all logistics processes in order to guarantee supply of dealers with parts and accessories at the right time, in the right quantity and in the right quality in line with requirements and taking into account the TPS concept with highest possible safety level. Allow the dealer to provide a seamless service to our customer.

• Your responsibilities

Health & Safety

Create and foster safety culture: Safety always first, zero tolerance related to safety,
lead by example and ensure Stop-Call-Wait culture

Create a zero-risk operations environment through proactive risk management
Health & Safety assessments: Daily safety patrols, regular risk related discussion with staff
Safety reporting: Local & legal governance reporting, Yokoten safety issues, accident & incident reporting
Analyse safety issues, uncover root causes and define countermeasures to avoid re-occurring incidents / accidents
Promote and implement best practises
Continuous improvement of operation, focussing on ergonomically aspects
Maximize separation of men & machine and machine & machine

Quality

Deliver ‘best in class’ quality to dealers
Ensure high quality standards up to the dealers, including forwarder activities
Define root-causes and implement countermeasures to improve quality
Foster customer first environment and adjust operation if needed
Define quality KPI’s and priorities for kaizen, for example sorting errors, warehouse denials, non-shipped lines, damages, ability factors, productivity indicators;
Report & follow up quality results on daily, monthly, yearly base

Operations Management

Deliver ‘best in class’ operations by using Toyota Way tools: LDC approach, FMDS,
standardisation, SOP creation and follow-up OJD, QCC;

Control and monitoring of all incoming / outgoing goods / transfers / transfers according
to standardized procedures and defined priorities
Follow-up operational KPI’s, face challenging targets and assures that objectives are met
Planning of resources: Weekly and daily workload, manpower & equipment planning
Monitor operational KPI’s (efficiency, equipment, material, etc.)
Initiation and ensuring the implementation of material flow concepts, internal operation,
transport systems and storage techniques to achieve optimal productivity
Gemba management, warehouse process management
Create smooth operations through in & outbound flow control & planning (Heijunka)
Irregularity management
Visualise process, Yamazumi, M&I flow, Standard Operation Procedures
Analysis of deviations and initiation of adequate measures in compliance with all internal and external guidelines and laws (e.g. working laws, safety regulations, environmental rules, workplace design).
Storage capacity monitoring & irregularity control
Translate + communicate local storage issues with depot manager
Implement and follow-up local warehouse kaizen plan
Encourage, follow up & guidance of depot kaizen activities

HRD & People Management

Daily HR Management according to Toyota Way
Set up & monitor local versatility/skill matrix & create development plan for all associates to reach multi-skill level
Identify development needs warehouse associates
Ensure clear and structure Toyota Way competencies appraisal within Warehouse Member
Organise/facilitate training plan for office & warehouse in line with defined development needs, facilitate OJD
Guide & support during job assessment’s
Set up succession planning for warehouse associates
Work regulations monitor and follow up
Communication: regular team-briefing
Responsible for the management of subordinates taking into account the management principles within Toyota, particular the Toyota Way.
In collaboration with HR and Depot Manager, agreement and implementation of the necessary personnel measures (e.g. warning letter, hiring etc.)
Code of Conduct: Ensure TME/depot regulations are followed and implemented.

Cost Management

Responsible for the provision of all necessary information arising in his sphere of responsibility to all relevant posts
Maintenance and further development of a qualified and substantive reporting system
Daily/monthly follow up
Plan and implement cost reduction activities
Initiate + follow up cost kaizen possibilities in the warehouse
Equipment & fleet management
Manpower & headcount follow up

Your Profile

• Experience:

5 years’ experience in logistics and/or shop floor management
preferably automotive sector experience

• Technical Knowledge:

Understanding of operational processes and flows
Fluent in German and English
Knowledge of MS Office

• Other skills:

Experience in total responsibility for delivery of daily result in a shop floor environment.
Proven track record of people management
Good understanding of Supply Chain Management and implementation of Lean / T.P.S. principles in shop floor operations
Excellent analytical skills
Knowledge of automotive industries and market

• You have a Toyota DNA, this means you:

Courage: you are ready to let go of the easy path to reach challenging targets
Collaboration: you are a team player, respectful and inclusive in your style and you take a customer-oriented approach
Creativity: your passion drives you to explore innovative ideas and challenge the impossible
Curiosity: you combine imagination and fact-based observation
Coaching: you share knowledge and feedback with your colleagues and celebrate each other’s success
 
We offer

Are you enthusiastic about Toyota and the vehicles of this brand? Then this is the right place for you to get started. We offer a dynamic and challenging multicultural work environment in which competence and quality play an important role. Enhancing personal growth and a real opportunity to invest in your future through on the job development and training. Where your effort, dedication and initiative are rewarded by a competitive and comprehensive compensation and benefits package

We offer a multicultural working environment where you will become part of a motivated team where competence and quality play an important role.

We promote personal growth and offer a realistic opportunity to invest in your own future by providing business development and training.

We offer a challenging career and flexibility at different levels of experience and for different personal and family backgrounds to develop the talents and enable the work-life balance.

With us, your performance, dedication and initiative are recognized by a comprehensive compensation and benefits concept.

• Place of employment:

Czech Republic, Krupka: Toyota Parts Center Czech

• A truly diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace

At Toyota Motor Europe, we are committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all. All our 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, age, religion, ethnicity, disability or other personal characteristics. We do not tolerate harassment or discrimination as our individual experiences and overall diversity is our key strength. Together we 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.