Toyota To Close Sydney Offices, ‘Centre Of Excellence’ Planned For Melbourne

Toyota has announced it will close its Sydney operation and encourage 350 of its New South Wales staff to move to Melbourne.

The carmaker says it is ‘consolidating’ its operations in Australia in the lead up to 2017, when Toyota’s Altona plant in Melbourne will cease to build cars.

Between now and 2017, 2500 factory jobs will go when workers are no longer required to build the Camry and Aurion models. 

Toyota announced a further 100 office positions will be deleted as part of the reshuffle, after which its Caringbah operation in Sydney will close.

The transition is expected to take two years, but it is unclear at this stage how many Sydney employees intend to take up Toyota’s offer and move south.

Once the Caringbah facility is gone, the Altona site will become Toyota’s only major headquarters in Australia.