Product Requirement Engineer - Cooking & Eating

at  IKEA

Job ID: R0009709
Date posted: 05/11/2024
Company description
Can you really reach out to the whole world, creating a better everyday life for the many people? In Älmhult, Sweden you can. Älmhult is home to IKEA of Sweden. Here the IKEA range is developed and made available to stores and customers all over the world. We are here to offer a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people as possible will be able to afford them. That is our promise, and we do this every day with great passion and energy.
To cook and eat together is for many a way to share, not only a meal, but also to hang out together, share stories, traditions, discussions, and opinions. It’s a social activity, full of life and energy. Our goal is to support the many people in their everyday cooking and eating activities and deliver a wide range of products, designed for both cooking healthy in a sustainable way, and enjoying eating them together.
We are a team of about 50 colleagues who work across the Cooking & Eating business. Together we focus on developing an excellent cooking & eating offer to enable a healthy, sustainable, and enjoyable life around food. For the many people and always with the low price in mind.
We are now looking for a Product Requirement Engineer who can translate customer’s wishes into technical requirements. You will be responsible to identify and develop product requirements that will make products safe, loved by our customers and sellable on all our markets.
Job description

• Take part in product development and product improvement projects
• Develop product requirements for qualitative, sustainable, safe and functional products
• Develop durability and functional tests that resembles real life usage over the lifetime of the product
• Secure compliance for the range on all market
• Create product documentation
• Responsible to communicate technical requirements/test methods to stakeholders e.g. product development team, engineers from Purchasing organization and Test labs