About IKEA Purchasing Services (Sweden) AB

Co-workers within Purchasing lead an exciting life! The mission is to develop business with suppliers in order to deliver IKEA products to our stores located around the world. The goal is to meet the price, quality and quantity expectations of our customers. In our Purchasing & Logistics Area we are working with suppliers in northern Europe and have offices in Älmhult, Kaunas and Dortmund

About the job
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.

Our attitude towards our colleagues is very simple – honest and frank employees always get a chance to grow both in their personal and career life, so all of us can contribute to a better everyday life for us and for our customers. We listen to our colleagues, we understand their needs and we support their ambitions and skills.

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 process, handling of quality deviations and secure compliance to all IKEA requirements. You develop and secure the engineering and quality needs to deliver products which satisfy customer expectations.

Amongst others you:

• are responsible for Quality Assurance
• perform Product audits and production risk assessments at suppliers
• are responsible for Supplier development

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 you
Do you have a solid base in manufacturing and quality improvement methodologies? Then this might be a chance for you!

We are now looking for a Production Engineer to our Paper Category team in Älmhult.

For this position it is important to know how to build and maintain business relations, having excellent communication skills, being a good team worker and empathetic, respecting values and being persistent. You are able to prioritize and self reliant in developing the supplier in the production and quality field. Easy adaptation to changes and willingness to take responsibility are also necessary.

We expect you to have a background in engineering, quality and production development. It is also required that you have good communication skills and that you are fluent in English, both in writing and speaking.

It is preferable that you have an engineering education and at least 2-5 years of working experience, and also that you have the knowledge about paper as a material and paper production.

Please noted this position based in Älmhult, Sweden. 

If you have any questions about the position, please contact Business Development Manager Linda Petersson at +46 73-0697907. If you have questions about the recruitment process, please contact Site HR Manager, Linda Quarfordt Thelin at +46 721-58 53 73.

Please send in your application in English online, by June 15th the latest. Please also note that we will be interviewing continuously, and might close the recruitment earlier if we find the right candidate.

We are looking forward to getting to know you soon!