Production Engineer - Food

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 supplier 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! In other companies this position is often called Food Safety & Quality engineer or Quality Engineer.

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 over 50 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 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 an expert in 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. We offer a fun, dynamic and challenging position in a global organization.

The recruitment will take place continuously so please send in your application in English as soon as possible but no later than March 20th. If you have any questions regarding the job please contact Business Development Manager Ying Wang 

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!