Packaging Solution Engineer-RA Bedroom Furniture

Would you like to be part of creating a better everyday life for the many people? By developing affordable products and solutions for people all around the world? Älmhult is home to IKEA of Sweden and here the IKEA range is developed and made available to stores and customers across the world.

In Range area Bedroom furniture, we are a diverse group of down-to-earth, straightforward people with a passion for home furnishing. We come from all over the world, but we share an inspiring vision: “to create a better everyday life for the many people”. We develop safe and affordable products for a beautiful, playful and more convenient life at home.

We are looking for our next Packaging Solution Engineer and if you have a passion for how function, quality, price, sustainability, and design come together this could be your next job!  

We are looking for a self driven engineer who wants to make a difference!

In IKEA we are having a high focus on removing the plastic in our packaging solutions and we need to be innovative to make it happen! We want you to be curious and explore how material development can make an impact for us and how it can be implemented in our products, in close collaboration with our suppliers.  

As Packaging Solution Engineer, you will develop, document, improve and maintain the optimal packaging solution for our products. This is done in close cooperation with designers, engineers, suppliers, and store co-workers, to ensure that the solutions will work all the way from the supplier to the customer.

As a Packaging Solution Engineer, you will be responsible for:
Developing packaging solutions for multichannel to meet demands on form, function, cost, quality, and sustainability and make sure they work through the total value chain and the whole product lifecycle.
Keeping the documentation up to date and according to IKEA standards
Securing that the packaging solution meets all legal requirements.
Exploring new materials for packaging and discovering ways to improve costs, reliability, and sustainability in packaging.
Improve our working methods for virtual development of packaging solutions.


Does this sound like your next challenge?

We look forward to receiving your application – CV and letter of motivation – in English latest by 15th of November 2023. Please note that we will be interviewing continuously, which means that we may close the application process earlier than stated if we find the right candidates.

This is a permanent full-time role located at Älmhult, Sweden.

Preferred starting date is as soon as possible.

If you have any questions regarding the position, please contact Product Engineer Manager Jenny Widen at jenny.widen@inter.ikea.com



If you have any questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Recruiter Riyaz Inamdar at riyaz.inamdar1@inter.ikea.com