Job ID: REF19459P

Publicatiedatum: 17/10/2024

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.

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

• Lead the development and implementation of 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.

For this position holder, it is important to know how to build and maintain business relations, having continuously growth mindset 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.
• Solid knowledge of production processes and technologies, experience in Automation and Lean enabling supplier base capability transformation.
• Wood industry experience is highly appreciated.
• 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; Self-motivated with strong inner drive, performance oriented.
• Positive, passionate and be able to increase team diversity.

This position will be based in Qingdao. Travelling is a part of the assignment since we work closely with our suppliers. Please note that the selection process will take place continuously, which means that we may close the application process earlier than stated if we find the right candidates. So don’t delay, please send us your application in English as soon as possible.

Please note that we don’t accept application through email. All applications must be submitted through Smart Recruiters system.