The product range - "our identity” and Range & Product Engineering is one of the most important enablers to ensure that we live up to the IKEA vision. Creating preconditions for range and product development in IKEA to enable better products at lower costs and faster time to market while also developing tools, ways of working and provide IKEA with engineering and specialist competence within a defined capability area.

Overall responsibility is to support product development for IKEA. To lead, develop, and improve development testing and to support in Chemical Emission/Content competence. 

Join us on our exciting journey towards becoming a pronounced development lab and you get to help shape our new way of working!

What do you get to do?

• Represent the capability area in development meetings
• Be the point of entry, lead, participate and contribute to development projects. 
• Be active and create an IKEA internal and contribute to planning activities. 
• Communicate relevant information internally at IKEA Test Lab. 
• Create internal instructions in order module structure. 
• Contribute to development of new and updated test methods.
• Have a good knowledge of calculations of measurement uncertainty. 
• Perform testing, make assessments, draw conclusions, and validate test data/results. 
• Contribute to the investment process.  

To succeed in this role, we see that you have a university degree in Chemistry, Analytical chemistry or equal, together with knowledge and practical experience in:

• GC-MS,
• LC-MS,
• LC,
• FTIR,
• Extraction methods
• Spectrophotometric methods (fluorescence, UV)
• Experience in quality control, calibration of test equipment, analytical method development, validation of test methods
• Working in projects/project management
• Good communication skills. Ability to communicate in a pedagogical way to different target groups
• An open mind and have a positive attitude
• Strong networking skills and the ability to build relationships 

Please send us your application – CV and letter of motivation – in English before January 14th. We really want to get to know you, so make sure you tell us why you would be a good fit for this role. We are interviewing continuously and will the close the advert when we find the right candidate.

If you have any questions regarding the position, please contact hiring manager Charlott Jönsson at +46 72-886 40 37

If you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Recruitment Specialist Jakob Bergström at +46 70-147 48 90.