Our ambition at Business Area Cooking Eating Decoration & Home Organisation (BA CEDO) lies in creating beautiful functional products and solutions that will inspire your thoughts and improve your everyday life, health and wellbeing.

We are passionate about inspiring The Many People in every corner of the globe to Cook, Eat and Decorate, personalise and create an atmosphere in the home that suits their needs along with great ideas for getting organised throughout the home.

This role is essential to IKEA – Both in terms of big movements within omnichannel and within sustainability

 We make this happen for The Many People, no matter the size of their budget.

In this role, as a Packaging Solution Engineer (PSE), you will develop, document and improve the optimal packaging solutions for BA CEDO.

The guiding principles for your work are all the aspects of Democratic Design and total value chain throughout the product lifecycle. This is done in close cooperation with product developers, engineers, suppliers and store co-workers, to ensure that the solutions will work all the way from the supplier to the customer. The purpose of the packaging is to protect the products and to display them in a selling way.

As a Packaging Solution Engineer you will:

• Take the Lead in the development of Packaging Solutions, running this as a Project with end to end responsibility for quality and timelines.
• Manage multiple stake holders throughout the process whilst keeping a strong focus on the business needs.
• Secure and verify that the solutions are meeting all packaging requirements
• Keep the documentation updated and correct according to IKEA Documentation Guideline and standards
• Find packaging improvement potentials and give input to action plan
• Capturing learnings, sharing knowledge, and communicating in BA and Matrix dimension

We are looking for someone who is passionate about creating the best packaging solutions for the customer at the right price, with the right quality and a beautiful design, with a clear focus on sustainability. 

We believe that you have an education within engineering as well as the theoretical and practical background within packaging and its impact of the value chain - from raw material to the co-worker and customer perspective. 

• You have knowledge in packaging construction in terms of drawing technique, technical solutions and design for manufacturing. 
• Experience in drawing is essential for this role. We would like you to have used and have knowledge of CAD or Solidworks (or similar tools)
• Furthermore, you have knowledge in packaging requirements and global packaging test methods and standards. 
• For this position we highly value great communication skills and the ability to lead yourself to make things happen.

 To be successful in this role you also need to have both analytical and creative skills and the ability to transfer knowledge, concepts and ideas into packaging solutions.

Does this sound like your next challenge? We look forward to receiving your application – CV and letter of motivation – in English latest 19th  November 2021.

If you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact

Carolina Reventberg [email protected]

If you have any questions about the role, please contact Christoffer Ahnell: 

[email protected]