IKEA Industry, part of the Inter IKEA Group, is the world’s largest producer of wooden furniture and is an integrated part of the IKEA value chain.As IKEA’s own furniture manufacturer our role is to offer a unique advantage for IKEA as a world leader in home furnishing.

IKEA Industry has nearly 38 production units, across 21 sites in 8 countries: Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Portugal, Sweden, Lithuania, China and Hungary.

Our operations include forestry, sawmills, boards, component and furniture production. IKEA culture and values shape everything we do. Not only do the IKEA values bring us together, they also help us to do business successfully

In IKEA Industry, Manufacturing development department grows unique manufacturing capability for long-term competitive advantage. Material, product and automation development & innovation activities are organized in Development Arena and its global development centers.

Automation development department in Development Arena has assignment to develop & innovate automatic solutions in manufacturing for sustainable competitive advantage. Working closely with technology suppliers, colleagues from digital development, many product engineers, research institutions and global manufacturers entire lifecycle of automation is covered – from identifying business case – until installation and through continuous improvements improving work conditions for many co-workers.

Right now we are looking for Industrial engineering leader.

Are you passionate about developing the next generation of production plants in global manufacturing company?

In the position of Industrial engineering leader at IKEA Industry expectation is to work with latest advances in digital production and further developing manufacturing processes in high-performing sustainable production systems.​

Role:

Industrial engineering leader role is to apply tools and methods in order to holistically optimize manufacturing processes by designing, developing, verifying, improving and implementing integrated systems of people, knowledge, information and equipment. Industrial engineering leader assignment covers global manufacturing operations.

In this position in Automation development department – Industrial engineer will work closely with business and engineers – providing support focusing not only on doing things right – but also doing the right things, for example automating a bottleneck to unleash additional capacity.

Industrial engineering considers design from system perspective with focus on seamless flow of material, people, knowledge and data based on IKEA Production System (IPS) foundations.

This includes leading development projects as well as managing improvements of such systems in full operation in close cooperation with industry experts, product development and several of the collaborating companies and research institutions.

To exemplify, Industrial engineering leader should orchestrate individual machine and its technical development into an efficient systematic interaction with flow capacity, knowledge capacity, people capacity, data capacity and organizational capacity with constantly shifting balance/bottleneck between those capacities

Who You are

We are looking for you who are passionate about developing the next generation of production plants in global manufacturing company. We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic about advanced development in intersection between material, product, digital and automation to offer customer even better home furnishing products which many more of the many will be able and excited to afford.

We also believe that you have a combination of the following knowledge and capabilities:

·         Production systems engineering

·         Manufacturing processes

·         Operations strategy

·         Lean methodology

·         Design of experiment

·         Project Management

·         Change Management

·         Cross-cultural relationships

·         Good in verbal and written English

·         Knowledge and potential ability of leading and developing people

·         Knowledge in project management processes and tools

·         Working according to goal, scope, deliverables set in a timeframe and know how to prioritize and delegate

·         Networking and effective communication to impact, engage and negotiate with others

·         Firm, proactive and fact based problem solver

·         Analytical and strategic ability, structured and organized

·         Capable of building trustful relations

·         Develop the business and deliver results

·         Lead and develop people

·         Inspire and clarify

·         Create togetherness

·         Find better ways

·         Enable change

Thank you for reading so far!

Location for this position is flexible, it can either be based out of any IKEA Industry units or at IKEA Industry office in Zbąszyń, Poland. Please note that we have published this job opportunity in multiple countries and location, however there is only one open position.

The position requires global travelling (+60 travel days yearly).

Do you feel challenged and inspired by what you have seen in this job ad? If “yes!” we would love to know more about you and your motivation for this job! Please send us your application in English as soon as possible, but no later than 6th of September, 2022

For job specific questions please contact Automation development manager – [email protected]

For questions about the recruitment process, please contact People & Culture Leader j[email protected]