Toyota Adds More U.S. Technical Jobs Mostly in Michigan
Tim Esterdahl | Apr 10, 2012 | Comments 4
Toyota Motor Corporation recently announced that it plans to hire 250 engineers, researchers and scientists in the next five years as it works to expand and enhance its North American technical center. This new announcement is just part of a growing trend of Toyota increasing the number of U.S. jobs.
Toyota recently announced it will be adding 250 technical jobs in the U.S. as it expands its U.S. operations.
The growth in the technical center corresponds with Toyota recently beginning more U.S. manufacturing of its vehicles that corresponds with the strong yen and weak U.S. dollar creating a trade imbalance resulting in more exporting. By increasing its technical capacity, Toyota Technical Center plans on adding more developmental responsibility of its vehicles.
The news is especially great for Michigan which has just been hammered by the recession and subsequent failures of the U.S. auto manufactures headquartered there. Thousands of workers, engineers, scientists and car designers have fled the state looking for jobs elsewhere. As Mike Omotoso, senior manager for powertrain forecasting at LMC Automotive put it, “This will allow people to come back home.”
Toyota also plans on opening up a small Silicon Valley office where staff will keep an eye on advanced technologies.
The big news is the boon to the Michigan economy of adding (not subtracting) jobs. With the growth of auto sales, the demand for highly trained and skilled engineers seems to be growing. And with its infrastructure and history, Michigan seems to be destined to stay the North American home to the auto industry. Time will tell if it will ever regain its full reputation or always be tarnished by the bailouts.
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GM mostly has tarnished their reputation for life if you ask me. I worked for GM from 1990-1996 and have been to the Detroit MI world headquarters for training once. I can tell you first hand that place at the time was top notch, but a lot of excessive dead beats like most huge companies making 100’s of thousands of dollars in wasted money for GM while they employed me for 8.75 per hour, go figure. Great benefits, terrible non-union pay like I was vs. being union had it made in the shade.
Glad that toyota is hiring workers in MI vs. GM laying them off all the time.
Soon all Toyota products will be made in the USA with the most US components. Already stated 75% on all vehicles minus the Prius.
Mickey – Good call – that’s the best way for Toyota to avoid their currency problems. Too bad it took them 40+ years to figure it out…
As mentioned toyota plans to hire 250 engineers in the next 5 years.
it’s a good sign for technical engineers .