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Would you like to be part of fantastic IKEA Food journey?\nDo you have a solid base in manufacturing and quality improvement methodologies within the food industry? Would you like a position where you will have a great impact on the way IKEA is working together with our Suppliers across the world? A position that offers you a chance to challenge existing manufacturing techniques with a win-win mindset? A position where you will lead the work of securing high quality of our products to millions of customers each year? Then this might be a chance for you!\n 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.\nYou 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.\nWe believe that you have a background in food engineering, quality and production development; preferably having an engineering education and 2-5 years of working experience within the food industry.\nSince 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!\n 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:\nare expert in quality assurance and follow up\nare familiar with product audits and production risk assessments at supplier sites\nare responsible for supplier development so you have experience in lean manufacturing and six sigma\nare leading the continuous improvements agenda from a production perspective\nhave the interest and drive to build trust and partnership to reach common goals\nFor us at IKEA, the most important thing is that our co-workers share our values. We offer a fun, dynamic and challenging position in a global organization.\n Please note this is a temporal position for 12 months.\nWe always recruit based on values, competence, potential and diversity. We will first consider co-workers employed at Inter IKEA Group impacted by organizational changes. For this specific recruitment priority will be given to impacted co-workers in IKEA Core Business Supply provided competence requirements are met for the role.\nDoes this sound right for you? Please send in your application in English as soon as possible but no later than 17th November 2026.We will be interviewing continuously so please send in you application soonest possible\nIf you have any questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Femina Karlsson, People and Culture Specialist at . 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