Production Engineer

The Production Engineer role will be responsible for a variety of responsibilities as below:

• Lead the development and implementation of the moves of products from one supplier to another one and the improvement of existing products based on quality performances and customer expectations.
• Lead the running range towards the suppliers and secure the supply chain is robust with an effective quality management system, right quality and cost, and full compliance to IKEA requirements at all time.
• Responsible for supplier development for quality and manufacturing with a long-term view to identify and implement action of related projects to secure suppliers’ production can achieve quality, capacity, throughput and cost expectation.
• Responsible for continuously improve the supplier’s production processes.
• Be an IKEA ambassador of IKEA values always and do business with Fact-based Business Leadership.

Requirements

For this position holder, it is important to know how to build and maintain business relations, having excellent communication skills and being a good team player. You have solid knowledge & experiences of production processes and technologies, you have capability to evaluate the suppliers technical and quality performance to produce products, genuinely interested in understanding the reality of production and continuous improvements. 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.

• Background in engineering, quality and product/production development.
• Experience in Manufacturing industry.
• Solid knowledge of production processes and technologies, experience in Automation and Lean.
• Experience related to Metal would be a plus.
• Good understanding about quality system and compliance.
• Experience in certification and testing is a plus.
• Strong communicative skills in complicated environment with multiple stakeholders and be able to handle conflicts.
• Proven experience in supplier management & project management.
• Preferred knowledge of product development tools.
• Proactive approach; Eager to learn and grow.