Engineering & Quality Leader

Company Description
Do you want to be part of bringing more comfort to peoples’ everyday life? Quality and engineering is of outmost importance when developing comfort and we are now looking for our new Quality & Engineering Leader in IKEA Category Comfort Seating. We offer a stimulating role where you will work on a global arena and get the possibility to lead the engineering, quality and material agenda for comfort seating products at IKEA.
Job Description
As Engineering & Quality Leader, your job is to secure everyday product quality and compliance to meet IKEA goals. You will develop and lead the engineering and quality development work, with focus to secure execution, in line with business plans. End result is to develop and secure the engineering and quality needs to deliver products satisfying customer expectations.
Your responsibilities will include:
• Contribute to define the engineering and quality agenda in cooperation with the category management team.
• In the category and at our suppliers, lead execution of total Compliance agenda (product/packaging requirement and GO/NOGO standard) and support with establishing compliance fulfilment processes, develop and implement Quality Leadership competencies, support with implementation of quality assurance, ensure that quality tools (for example Process & Design FMEA, Six Sigma etc.) are used.
• Be part of the category management team and thereby contributing to the total development on both category and category area regarding better way of working, processes, frameworks and tools and promoting learnings from experience and sharing of good practices.
• Be matrix responsible for the category: Lead and coach the Production and Product engineers, supporting them in local or global engineering/improvement/quality projects. Support the competence development for Engineering and Quality within the category.
• Support in analysing customer feedback, and development of project/actions to improve customer satisfaction.
• At any time, act as an ambassador of IKEA values and Role Model for Fact-based Business leadership.
Qualifications
You have an engineering background and you possess very good knowledge of Quality assurance set up including production processes, process control, cost calculation and materials. You also have very good knowledge of Lean production methods and tools (DMAIC, root cause, value stream mapping, FMEA etc.).
We also believe you are highly analytical person with ability to zoom into details, keeping the holistic view at the same time, capable of drawing conclusions to support the right business decision. You lead the business on strategical, operational and tactical level with the business strategy in mind and always act considering the Customer, supplier, total IKEA and Quality. You have the ability to deliver results through involving, leading, developing and inspiring people in a remote environment, acting like coach and a mentor. You are self-driven and have the ability to communicate clearly and in a simple way and you know how to challenge people in a constructive way. An experience from indirect/matrix leadership will be considered as beneficial.
Additional Information
This position is located in Älmhult (Sweden), Warsaw (Poland), Shanghai (China) or Bucharest (Romania) and may require extensive travelling (150-200 days/year).
If you have any questions about the role please contact Imran Kalwar, Category Manager Comfort Seating at imran.kalwar@inter.ikea.com. If you have questions about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact People & Culture Recruiter Zuzana Vackova, +46 (0)72-151 12 46.
We are looking forward to your application! Please submit both your CV and motivation letter in English by 10th February 2021. Please note that we will review the applications continuously and we may close the job opening once we find the right candidate.