Packaging Solution Engineer, IKEA CEDO (paternity leave)

Company Description
Our ambition at Business Area Cooking Eating Decoration & Home Organisation (BA CEDO) lies in creating beautiful functional products and solutions that will inspire your thoughts and improve your everyday life, health and wellbeing. We are passionate to inspire the many people in every corner of the globe to cook and eat, to decorate, personalise and create an atmosphere in the home that suits your needs along with great ideas for getting organised throughout the home. We make this happen for the many people, no matter the size of wallet.


Job Description
In this role, as Packaging Solution Engineer (PSE), you will develop, document and improve the optimal packaging solution for BA CEDO. The guiding principles for your work is all aspects of Democratic Design and total value chain throughout the product lifecycle. This is done in close cooperation with product developers, engineers, suppliers and store co-workers, to ensure that the solutions will work all the way from the supplier to the customer. The purpose of the packaging is to protect the product and to display it in a selling way.
As a Packaging Solution Engineer you will :
Secure and verify that the solution is meeting all packaging requirements
Keep the documentation updated and correct according to IKEA Documentation Guideline and standards
Find packaging improvement potentials and give input to action plan
Capturing learnings, sharing knowledge, and communicating in BA and Matrix dimension

Qualifications
We are looking for you who are passionate about creating the best packaging solution for the customer at the right price, with the right quality, with beautiful design and with a clear focus on sustainability. We believe that you have an education within engineering as well as theoretical and practical background within packaging and its impact of the value chain - from raw material to the co-worker and customer perspective. You have knowledge in packaging construction in terms of drawing technique, technical solutions and design for manufacturing. Furthermore, you have knowledge in packaging requirements and global packaging test methods and standards. It´s an advantage is you have experience from using Solid Work as a tool in your work. For this positions we highly value great communication skills and the ability to lead yourself to make things happen. To be successful in this role you also need to have both analytical and creative skills and the ability to transfer knowledge, concepts and ideas into packaging solutions.


Additional information
Please note that this is a short time assignment (paternity leave) until September 2021.
Does this sound like your next challenge? We look forward to receiving your application – CV and letter of motivation – in English latest 26th of January.
If you have any questions the recruitment process, please contact Recruiter, Maria Fröberg Larsson, +46 (0)766 190 996.