Product Requirement Engineer - Taps, Business Area Kitchen & Dining,
IKEA of Sweden

Our vision – Do you share it?
Are you driven by a constant urge to improve, develop and challenge? Are you passionate about creating solutions for a better everyday life for the many people? Then this may just be for you!

The IKEA vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people – our customers, co-workers and the people who produce our products. We want to create customer success with our home furnishings offer focusing on price and quality, design and function, and sustainability.
 
The IKEA kitchen is designed from the inside out – brains on the inside and beauty on the outside. We want to create an everyday easier life in the kitchen. The kitchen is the heart of the home – the social meeting point for the family, full of life and activity. It must also be highly functional with the solutions that make preparing food, cooking, eating, storing and cleaning up easy. And of course, after that perfect meal has been prepared, we can provide the perfect table and chairs to dine together. We want to be customer’s first choice for kitchen.

As a Product Requirement Engineer your will work with the development of new products and improvements of running range. You will work together with development teams and have the responsibilities of the requirements in the development process. You will be responsible to identify and create product requirements and choose test methods for the products. You will also contribute to the creation of new and additional development tests needed for product validation that will contribute to a better quality, safer products with higher customer satisfaction.

You need to have good insight into specifications, test methods and being updated on changes in legislation and other external requirements that may influence the product areas under your responsibility. To be successful you need to be able to communicate and cooperate with a wide range of stakeholders like the development team, the purchasing organization and the suppliers.

We are looking for someone who have the passion in working with products that gives the many people their pure drinking water, someone who have the knowledge, the drive and the industrial experience from the field of taps or sanitary and the ambition to work with the certifications and requirements on a global market.

We always have safety and quality on top of our minds when we are more than ever focusing on developing the functionality and quality in our range. We have put a challenging and inspiring task to develop outstanding products with the customer in focus!

We are looking for someone who wants to be the cog in the technical team, who has a solid industrial experience from the field of taps or sanitary fitting production.

You are an experienced engineer working with requirements in the process of product development, product improvement and technical solutions both with new products and running range together with the R & D team. You have experience of solutions and knowledge in material such as solid steel, brass, plastics and chrome plating.

You have an university degree in engineering or equivalent job related experience.

You have excellent communication skills and the ability to take the lead in your own work as well as in your contacts with internal and external stakeholders. You have experience from product development and probably supply chain- and production knowledge and are skilled in requirement management and verification planning. IKEA of Sweden is a truly global environment, with colleagues from all over the world. You therefore need to be fluent in English.

IKEA offers an exciting and empowering working environment in a global marketplace. And as the world’s leader at life at home, you have exceptional opportunities to grow and develop together with us. At IKEA we believe that when you as an individual grow - IKEA grows!

Sounds interesting? Submit your application as soon as possible. If you have any questions regarding the position or the recruitment process please contact Recruitment Specialist, Jonas Levin at +46 (0)72 886 53 84.

We look forward to receiving your application!

IKEA of Sweden (IoS) is responsible for developing the IKEA range and making it available for stores and customers all over the world. Expressed in terms of IKEA’s three main processes, IoS leads the processes Creating the Home Furnishing Offer and Supplying. IoS also takes part in the third main process, Communicating & Selling, which is led by Retail