Mairi Gordon is the most senior manager at Toyota’s Deeside engine operations in North Wales, which made 280,000 1.8-liter petrol engines in 2021. There she oversees manufacturing, maintenance, engineering and quality assurance, reporting to the deputy MD of Toyota Manufacturing UK. She moved there in September 2019 from Toyota’s assembly plant in Burnaston, where she was general manager of the production control division. Gordon was one of the first British nationals to be hired at the Derbyshire plant back in 1990 when it first started.