Susann Kazunas is honored to serve as group vice president and executive engineering officer responsible for all production engineering at Toyota Motor North America. This includes vehicle, unit, battery engineering as well as building construction. In this role, Kazunas oversees equipment preparation for new product launches at Toyota’s North American manufacturing facilities including transformation of Toyota’s North American battery production facility.

Prior to this role, Kazunas was president of Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Texas (Toyota Texas) where she led all production and administrative functions at the plant. Located deep in the heart of Texas, the San Antonio manufacturing facility is the exclusive home to the iconic Toyota Tundra and Toyota all-hybrid Sequoia, assembled on the same production line.

Kazunas joined Toyota in 1998 at Toyota Kentucky, working primarily in the stamping and weld shops. During her tenure with Toyota, she has held leadership positions in manufacturing and production engineering at Toyota Kentucky, Toyota Motor North America, Toyota Motor Corporation Commercial Vehicle Company, and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas.

Kazunas is an active member in the San Antonio community from her time as Toyota Texas president, including serving on the executive committee for greater:SATX, an organization focused on regional economic and workforce development. She also serves on the executive board of directors for the Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce.

In 2025, Kazunas was recognized in the Texas Business Journals’ Texas 100 list of impactful Texans to watch in the year ahead and the San Antonio Business Journal’s South Texas Power Players list. In 2014, she was recognized as a 40-Under-40 emerging leader by Automotive News and received a Women in Manufacturing STEP Ahead Award from the Manufacturing Institute in 2015. This award recognizes excellence and leadership in science, technology, engineering, and production.

Kazunas received a bachelor’s degree in organizational management from Midway College.

 

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