IKEA Industry Hultsfred AB, Division Boards
 

IKEA offers an exciting and empowering work 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.

If you want to be part of something big, this could be the right challenge for you. We are looking forward to getting to know you soon!

IKEA is one of the world's leading home furnishing companies. Our vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people. We do this by offering a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people as possible will be able to afford them.

IKEA Industry Hultsfred AB is contributing to the ”IKEA family” with about 290 co-workers where half is working with producing particle boards within division Boards and half is producing the PAX wardrobe within division Flatline. In our daily work, together with all co-workers, we produce the basic material used in several of IKEAs most known products as creates a better everyday life for the many people.

Mechanical Manager, 1 position, daytime
IKEA Industry Hultsfred AB, Division Boards

Are you passionate about relations? Are you service minded? Do you want to be a part of something big? Then IKEA Industry Hultsfred are looking for you!

The focus of the Maintenance department is to ensure high utilization and high efficiency in our production that is running around the clock 365 days a year. It’s a highly complex process to produce boards as we do and it’s most important that the production runs smoothly all year round. As Mechanical Manager, you are expected along with your team to develop, plan, implement and monitor activities in your area. You should be familiar with the work based on KPI’s, feel a strong commitment to leadership with the ability to motivate and develop others. To be successful in your work, you should have the engineering and maintenance experience in a highly automatized production, preferably from the wood industry.

To be successful in this role you need to:
•    Have leadership experience
•    Have proven experience in developing and optimizing industrial production. 
•    Have worked with implementation or use of Lean Production methodology.
•    Be action-oriented, decisive and result driven.
•    Have an assertive and self-confident personality, with much willpower and drive along with a listening leadership.
•    Have strong and adequate interpersonal skills.
•    Be a team builder and team player.
 
To enjoy working in this role you have to be an excellent troubleshooter and be a person who pays attention to provide excellent service to other departments within the company. You are ambitious, positive, flexible and are used to have a lot of things going on at the same time. You are used to work in a high pace and have the ability to contribute with and implement new ideas. You also need to have a sane and cost conscious mindset to be able to find cost-efficient solutions within the maintenance area. It is an advantage if you have been working with similar tasks before in order to understand the internal customer’s need. You are a good communicator and express yourself well both verbally and in writing. You are fluent in both Swedish and English.

For us at IKEA, the most important thing is that you share our values. Values like leadership by example, constantly being on the way and that you want and dare to find new and different solutions. As a person you are humble and have willpower and you have the ability to create togetherness and enthusiasm around you.

Please note that we will be interviewing continuously, which means that we may close the application process earlier than stated if we find the right candidates. So don’t hesitate to send us your application today. At IKEA we strongly believe in and strive for a diverse workforce, so we specifically would appreciate female applicants to this position. The last day to apply is Wednesday 18th of July.

If you have any questions regarding this position, please contact Niclas Johansson, Maintenance- and engineering manager, Division Boards, +46 (0)495-75 51 60. If you are one of the candidates we would like to interview, we will contact you by phone. In some cases recruitment processes may take time, so we kindly ask you to be patient in this respect. If you have any questions about the actual recruitment process, please contact our HR Manager, Fredrik Jonsson, +46 (0) 495-75 50 20. If you want to get in contact with representative for the unions then contact: Anders Tuvesson +46 (0)495-75 51 70 (Unionen) or Niklas Ekström +46 (0)495-75 51 03 (Ledarna).

If you want to be part of something big, this could be the right challenge for you. We are looking forward to getting to know you soon!