Arbetsbeskrivning

Älmhult, Sweden

Full-time

Company Description

Preferred Candidate Identified

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!

Job Description

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 food 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!

Qualifications

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 are:

• are expert in quality assurance and follow up
• are familiar with product audits and production risk assessments at supplier sites
• are responsible for supplier development so you have experience in lean manufacturing and six sigma
• 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

Please note that we have a preferred candidate for this position, while we encourage all candidates holding a similar ambition and finding the role interesting to apply. 

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.