Production Engineer, Category Area Food

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’ manufacturing sites 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 worker, respecting values and being persistent. You are able to prioritize, set a clear agenda and like to deliver high quality results on time.  You are result oriented, have high energy and a self-driven ways of working.



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 see how far you can go!

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 53 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 works 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 responsible for 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, such as togetherness and enthusiasm, constant desire for renewal and simplicity. We offer a fun, dynamic and challenging position in a global organisation.

The recruitment will take place continuously so please send in your application in English as soon as possible but no later than June 29th, 2020. If you have any questions regarding the job please contact Business Development Manager Susanne Ek at Susanne.ek1@inter.ikea.com. If you have questions regarding the recruitment process please contact People & Culture Generalist Haben Debessay at haben.debessay2@inter.ikea.com  

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 IKEA Supply lead an exciting life! The mission is to develop business with suppliers in order to deliver IKEA 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 & Logistics Area we are working with suppliers in northern Europe and have offices in Älmhult, Kaunas, Moscow and Dortmund.