Do you have a solid base in manufacturing and quality improvement methodologies within the food industry and specifically the bakery industry? Would you like a position where you will have a great impact on the way IKEA is working together with our suppliers’ manufacturing sites across the world? A position that offers you a chance to challenge existing manufacturing techniques with a win-win mindset? A position where you will lead the work of securing high quality of our products to
millions of customers each year? Then this might be a chance for you!

About you
For this position it is important to know how to build and maintain business relations, having excellent communication skills, being a good team worker, respecting values and being persistent. You are able to prioritize, set a clear agenda and like to deliver high quality results on time. 

You have a background in engineering, quality and production development; preferably having an engineering education and 5-10 years of working experience within food industry. Since we are working in a global context, you need to have good communicative skills and speak fluently English. Travelling is a part of the assignment since our Engineers spend a lot of time with our suppliers. You are interested to take your next step in a big global company to develop yourself further and see how far you can go!


About the job
If you are the right person for this position, we can offer you an assignment in a global organisation with a great possibility to build and create something new, where your ideas are heard and where the goal always is “to create a better everyday life for the many people”! 

IKEA Food develops and provides the food sold and served in all IKEA Restaurants, Bistro´s, Swedish Food Markets and the IKEA co-worker restaurants. IKEA Food has over 400 restaurants in rnd 50 markets and every year 650 million guests are enjoying the IKEA Food.

About the assignment
As a Production Engineer you lead the engineering and quality agenda with the overall goal to improve the customer satisfaction. You are the main contact towards the suppliers and works as part of the business team together with the supplier to develop and secure the production processes, handling of quality
deviations and secure compliance to all IKEA requirements. Amongst others you:
• Responsible for quality assurance and follow up
• Perform product audits and production risk assessments at supplier sites
• Responsible for supplier development
• Leading the continuous improvements agenda from a production perspective

For us at IKEA, the most important thing is that our co-workers share our values, such as togetherness and enthusiasm, constant desire for renewal and simplicity. We offer a fun, dynamic and challenging position in a global organization.