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Do you have a solid base in manufacturing and quality improvement methodologies? Would you like a position where you work in a truly international environment? Then this might be a chance for you!
My name is Anna, and I work as a Business Development Manager in Älmhult for the Wood Components team.
Our current Production Engineer is moving on to a new assignment within IKEA and now we are looking for his replacer. Wood Components team belongs to Category Area Wood – one of IKEAs biggest Category Areas. Wood is an essential material and important part of the IKEA heritage and we can proudly say that around 60% of our sales in IKEA are connected to wood-based products.
Are you ready to be part of a journey towards affordable sustainability for our customers? Are you the Production Engineer we are looking for?
As a part of Category Area Wood, you will have access to a huge knowledge base and experience in both leadership and Wood material, production and value chain. We offer trust and space to test and try, explore, make mistakes, and develop us and our partners.


Quality in all of our products is really important for us. In IKEA we work with our suppliers in a tight team of 3 functions, quality, logistics and business development. You would be the one leading the quality agenda in the business team, working very close with our Business Developers & Supply Planners. You are the main contact towards the suppliers to develop and secure the efficient production process, handling of quality deviations and secure compliance to all IKEA requirements.
Amongst others you:
• are responsible for Quality Assurance
• perform Product audits and production risk assessments at suppliers
• are responsible for Supplier development
Sounds exciting, right?


We are looking for someone who enjoys building and maintaining business relations, having excellent communication skills. You work well in a team and believe in respecting others. You adapt to changes, take responsibility and are able to prioritize.
We believe that you have a background in engineering, quality and production development and you preferably having an engineering education and at least 2-5 years of working experience. You also have good communicative skills in English.
Travelling is a part of the assignment since our Engineers spend a lot of time with our suppliers.
This position is placed in Älmhult, Sweden or in Kaunas, Lithuania.
Please not that we have a preferred candidate for this position.
Please send us your application – CV and letter of motivation – in English. We really want to get to know you, so make sure you tell us why you would be a good fit for this role.
The last day to send your application is 2nd of June 2022.
If you have questions about the recruitment process, please contact People & Culture Recruiter Christina Appelqvist, [email protected].
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Are you our new Requirement & Design Engineer?

IKEA Components is looking for a Requirement & Design Engineer who combines automation and mechanical design with our great team of Engineers within retail equipment. The base in your work will be to work with mechanical design.

As a Requirement & Design Engineer (RDE) you will be responsible for develop products within the retail equipment range in different materials and functions from concept sketches to final product. You will be responsible for improvements of the current range and creating range plans for better products and to be a development partner to IKEA product development functions within selected product ranges. Then you will lead both new developments as well as maintain and improve existing ranges based on Democratic Design and steer new product development towards selected standard and shared solutions. 

You will take ownership for selected area/s of range, material, or technology. Verify the area´s performance according to democratic design during development and its documentation during the complete life cycle and identify applicable requirements and when relevant, develop customer-based requirements and verification methods. 

All with the purpose to exceed customers’ expectations by providing a great range of solutions and products and identify and manage safety and technical risks during the development.  You will also initiate and perform development test and develop test methods when required.

Furthermore, you will also be responsible of/to: 
o    Manage appointed range, material, or technology.
o    Lead and execute projects within appointed area for new development and improvements.
o    Create, visualize, and optimize the mechanical design related to set product requirements.
o    Initiate and perform development test and develop test methods when required.
o    Identify and manage safety and technical risks during the development.
o    Develop, identify, and maintain standard solutions.
o    Perform basic Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) analysis such as static Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and optimization including act as interface towards FEA engineers.
o    Ensure a qualitative, complete, and relevant documentation and keep it up to date during entire lifecycle.

To be successful in this role, we believe that you are excellent at building trustworthy relationships and working together with your team colleagues and across departments. As a person, you are down-to-earth, pragmatic solution orientated with a sparkling curiosity that will lead you forward in the unknown. You are self-driven; you make things happen and are open to change. You have a business mindset and interest in the market and global trends, and you have a sense of urgency and strive to optimize sustainability, cost, quality, and function. 

Finally, we wish that you to have/to be: 
•    Five year’s work experience in engineering
•    University degree in engineering or equivalent qualification
•    Good analytical skills and a pro-active and problem-solving approach
•    Experiences of FEA engineering and simulation
•    Good communication skill
•    Fluent in English, both written and spoken

If you have any questions about the role, you are welcome to contact, Jan Henriksson, [email protected]

If you have any questions about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact Recruitment Specialist Christina Appelqvist 0766-11-34 08.

We are look forward to receiving your application in English. CV and personal letter. Please note that we will be interviewing continuously so do not delay, send in your application today! Last day to apply is 9th of May 2022. If we find the right candidate, we might close the ad earlier. Visa mindre

Company Description
Do you have passion for food? Would you like to be part of fantastic IKEA Food journey?
Do you have a solid base in manufacturing and quality improvement methodologies within the food industry? Would you like a position where you will have a great impact on the way IKEA is working together with our Suppliers across the world? A position that offers you a chance to challenge existing manufacturing techniques with a win win mindset? A position where you will lead the work of securing high quality of our products to millions of customers each year? Then this might be a chance for you!
About you
For this position it is important to know how to build and maintain business relations, having excellent communication skills, being a good team player, respecting values and being persistent. You are able to prioritize, set a clear agenda and like to deliver high quality results on time. You have ability to make decisions and solve problems with holistic view. You have high energy and self-driven way of working to deliver better products for the many people by working together with the suppliers and co-workers in IKEA.
We believe that you have a background in engineering, quality and production development; preferably having an engineering education and 2-5 years of working experience within the food industry.
Since we are working in a global context, you need to have good communicative skills and speak fluently English. Travelling is a part of the assignment since our Engineers spend a lot of time with our suppliers. You are interested to take your next step in a big global company to develop yourself further and to develop IKEA Food together with us!
About the job
If you are the right person for this position, we can offer you an assignment in a global organisation with a great possibility to build and create something new, where your ideas are heard and where the goal always is “to create a better everyday life for the many people”!
IKEA Food develops and provides the food sold and served in all IKEA Restaurants, Bistro´s, Swedish Food Markets and the IKEA co-worker restaurants. IKEA Food has over 400 restaurants in over 50 markets and every year 650 million guests are enjoying the IKEA Food.
About the assignment
As a Production Engineer you lead the engineering and quality agenda with the overall goal to improve the customer satisfaction. You are the main contact towards the suppliers and work as part of the business team together with the supplier to develop and secure the production processes, handling of quality deviations and secure compliance to all IKEA requirements. Amongst others you:
expert in quality assurance and follow up
perform product audits and production risk assessments at supplier sites
are responsible for supplier development
are leading the continuous improvements agenda from a production perspective
have the interest and drive to build trust and partnership to reach common goals

For us at IKEA, the most important thing is that our co-workers share our values. We offer a fun, dynamic and challenging position in a global organization.
Additional information
The recruitment will take place continuously so please send in your application in English as soon as possible but no later than March 2nd, 2022. If you have any questions regarding the job please contact Engineering and Quality Leader Irina Tibre at [email protected] or Business Development Manager Christian Midqvist at [email protected]. If you have questions regarding the recruitment process please contact People & Culture Recruiter Zuzana Vackova at [email protected].
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!
Co-workers within Purchasing Development lead an exciting life! The mission is to develop business with suppliers in order to deliver IKEA Home Furnishing and Food products to our stores located around the world. The goal is to meet the price, quality and quantity expectations of our customers. In our Purchasing & Logistic Area we are working with suppliers in northern Europe and have offices in Älmhult Sweden, Kaunas Lithuania, Moscow Russia and Dortmund Germany. Visa mindre

Product Requirement Engineer
IKEA Range & Supply has the responsibility to develop, design, produce and supply IKEA stores with home furnishing solutions available to the many people. Each year IKEA Range & Supply introduces 2,000 new products in the IKEA stores. The total range is almost 10,000 products.
For the Business Area Children’s & Lighting (CHILI) we are looking for a Product Requirement Engineer with main area storage.
We are looking for a Product Requirement Engineer that can translate customer’s wishes into technical requirements. You will be responsible to identify and develop product requirements that will make children products safe, loved by our customer and sellable on all our markets. 
As Product Requirement Engineer you will work in the product development team as the requirement specialist. You will also create strong relationship with Requirement development department and as well as engineers from purchasing organization to secure understanding of the product requirements and successful implementation. You will have good knowledge into IKEA specifications, production knowledge, standards and test methods relevant for the product areas you are responsible for. 

In this assignment your main responsibilities will be: 
•    Develop product requirements for sustainable, safe and functional products
•    Create production documentation and maintain the products during their life time. 
•    Develop durability and functional tests that resembles real life usage over the lifetime of the product
•    Responsible to communicate technical requirements/test methods to stakeholders e.g. product development team, engineers from Purchasing Organisation and Test labs

The position is located in Älmhult, Sweden. Älmhult has commuting possibilities with hourly trains to Malmö, Lund and Växjö and an IKEA shuttle bus back and forth to Helsingborg three times a day.
If you have any questions about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact recruitment specialist Christina Appelqvist + 46 766113408
Please apply no later than the 17th of January 2021 but note that we are interviewing continuously and will the close the advert if we find the right candidate before closing date. Visa mindre