Production Engineer IKEA Food - Purchasing Development

at  IKEA

AS A PRODUCTION ENGINEER IN CATEGORY AREA FOOD PLANT BASED CATEGORY, YOU WILL REPORT TO BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, JEAN-PHILIPPE GIRAUD.

Job description
For this position it is important to know how to build and maintain business relations, having excellent communication skills, being a good team player, respecting values and being persistent.
You are able to prioritize, set a clear agenda and like to deliver high quality results on time. You have ability to make decisions and solve problems with holistic view. You have high energy and self-driven way of working to deliver better products for the many people by working together with the suppliers and co-workers in IKEA.
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 to develop IKEA Food together with us!
Qualification

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:

• are expert in quality assurance and follow up
• are familiar with product audits and production risk assessments at supplier sites
• are responsible for supplier development so you have experience in lean manufacturing and six sigma
• are leading the continuous improvements agenda from a production perspective
• have the interest and drive to build trust and partnership to reach common goals

Please refer the Job description for details