GROWING TOGETHER

IKEA offers an exciting and empowering work environment in a global marketplace. And as the world’s leader at life at home, you have exceptional opportunities to grow and develop together with us

Lead the engineering and quality agenda with the overall goal to improve the customer satisfaction. The Production Engineer is the main contact towards the suppliers for Quality & Engineering and works as part of the business team to develop and secure production process, handling quality deviations and securing compliance to all IKEA requirements.

Your tasks will include:

• Responsible for Quality Assurance including securing process control in production

• Perform product audits and production risk assessments at supplier

• Lead the running range at the suppliers and sub-suppliers to secure full compliance of IKEA requirements

• Lead the supplier development for quality and manufacturing with responsibility to identify and implement actions and execution of Supplier Development Process projects

• Responsible for projects for production improvements

• Lead product deviation processes, securing root-cause analysis and implementation of corrective/preventive actions

• Secure implementation of new and update requirements

• Secure final inspection and regular follow up and feedback to the suppliers regarding quality performance

Your knowledge, skills and experience include:

• Experience of at least 3 years in textile production environment

• Good knowledge of Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma methods and tools

• Good knowledge of quality improvement tools and quality systems

• Knowledge about Total Quality Management

• Knowledge of audit and assessment techniques

• Result oriented, high energy and self-driven way of working

• Capability to create trust and relations showing high level of integrity

• Flexible, good communicator and team player

• Fluent in English; Amharic is a plus