Product Engineer, Foil on Board - Paper Wrapped Full-time About IKEA One brand, many companies, and many, many people – that's us in a nutshell. Spread all over the world, we have a passion for home furnishing and an inspiring shared vision: to create a better everyday life for the many people. This, together with our straightforward business idea, shared values, and a culture based on the spirit of togetherness, guides us in everything we do.
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. To meet the needs of our customers we have a unique business model and value chain. It includes product development, design, supply, manufacture and sales. And of course, it starts and ends with our customers.
About Purchasing Development As Purchasing Development, we purchase the materials and the production capacity to produce both home furnishing products and food. We have more than 1,200 co-workers globally and operate in 27 locations, including 6 category areas and Raw Materials.
At IKEA, we see things a little differently. We onboard our suppliers as partners with whom we create long-term relationships. We want them to grow with us, become more efficient and achieve lower prices.
Are you ready to be part of a journey towards affordable sustainability for our customers? Are you the Product Engineer we are looking for? As a part of Category Area Wood, Foil on Board you will have access to a huge knowledge base and experience in both leadership and Foil on board material, production and value chain. We offer trust and space to test and try, explore, make mistakes and learn from it, and develop us and our partners.
About the Job The Product Engineer is responsible for leading the development and implementation of new products, moving products from one supplier to another, and improving existing products based on quality performance and customer expectations.
For this position, it is important to know how to build and maintain business relations, have excellent communication skills, be a good team worker, and be empathetic, respecting values and being persistent. You are able to prioritize, adapt to changes easily, and have a willingness to take responsibility.
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Proven experience in Quality & Compliance / Product environment, good knowledge of materials properties, production processes and technologies. Preferably having an engineering education and at least 2-5 years of working experience. Ability to think out-of-the-box and critically in the constant search for ways to improve our products. Analytical thinking, which you will use in analyzing processes from the beginning of product implementation to data evaluation and finding improvements, cost savings, better design or quality. Good communication to help you find common ground with suppliers of different nationalities and to meet IKEA's business demands. The ability to manage time well, balancing between the factory floor and office work. Preferred knowledge of product development tools. If you have questions about the position, please contact hiring Manager Sergio Viroli. If you have questions about the recruitment process, please contact People & Culture Generalist Gabriele Turco.
This position will be based in Assago, Milan (Italy). Travelling is a part of the assignment since our Engineers work closely with our suppliers. The selection process will take place continuously, so please send in your application in English as soon as possible, by November 25th.
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