About IKEA

One brand, many companies, and many, many people – that’s us in a nutshell. Spread all over the world, we have a passion for home furnishing and an inspiring shared vision: to create a better everyday life for the many people. This, together with our straightforward business idea, shared values, and a culture based on the spirit of togetherness, guides us in everything we do.

To offer 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. To meet the needs of our customers we have a unique business model and value chain. It includes product development, design, supply, manufacture and sales. And of course, it starts and ends with our customers.

About the assignment

We must change. We have one planet with limited resources, at the same time the population is growing. It’s time for us to go all-in. IKEA overall target is to end the dependency on virgin fossil materials by 2030 and to ensure a 100% circular offer by securing that all products have circular capabilities. Materials need to be renewable or recycled supporting sustainable circular flows of resources.

About the job

As a Material & Technology Engineer within Material and Innovation, you will play an important role in the journey towards our 2030 goal. You will work to investigate and introduce alternative materials, supporting the movement to our sustainable targets, anchored in Material Direction.  You will work with internal and external stakeholders towards more sustainable product development for IKEAs products and help to build roadmaps to meet the Material Direction goals.

You will be responsible to initiate and lead material related development projects and work closely with Material & Innovation Developers. You will be an important link to the product development teams, Range Innovation, Public Affairs and the requirements team,  to secure the implementation of new materials and innovations. You will also secure knowledge sharing and lead material direction related trainings,e.g. helping to understand the best material-application fit and making better material choices

Job Description

Positions in this sub-family are responsible for leading, managing or performing the engineering operations of the organization. Depending on the organization, activities may involve various branches of the engineering profession, for example electronic, environmental, mechanical, maintenance or plant engineering. Activities include designing, constructing, testing and operating equipment; ensuring standards of quality, cost, safety, reliability, timeliness and performance are met in production processes; interpreting plans, drawings and specifications; providing technical support to the organization's sales force for technical product sales; and industry-specific engineering activities.

About you

To be successful in this role we see that you have a background textile engineering and introducing new materials. Solid knowledge in the textile material field and strong interest in innovations and new materials. You are skilled in managing multiple stakeholders and driving change with good communication and networking abilities. Your passion for affordable sustainability reflects in the developments that you will lead. You enjoy being on the factory floor doing trials and developing proof of concepts for new solutions. You embrace renewable and recycled of materials, and you stay up to date and is curious about what is happening in the industry.  Your strength is leading in the unknown with strong project leadership skills. You have experience in working end-to-end from the raw material into the final product, securing safety and all requirements needed.

You are motivated by long term goals and long term results, and you like to think outside the box. You like to challenge yourself as well as other teams and IKEA. Speaking in IKEA teams and values, you like to ‘dare to be different’.

Please send us your application in English - CV and letter of motivation. We really went to get to know you, so make sure you tell us Why you would be a good fit.

If you have questions about the position, please contact hiring manager Lena Berndsdotter at [email protected]. If you have questions about the recruitment process, please contact People & Culture Recruiter Fay Wang at [email protected].