Production Engineer, IKEA

IKEA

Location:
India, Bangalore

Category:
Manufacturing

Contract Type:
Employment contract

Salary:

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Job Description:

The Production Engineer role involves working with suppliers to ensure quality, continuous improvement, and customer satisfaction. Responsibilities include quality assurance, supplier development, production risk assessments, and ensuring compliance with IKEA standards. The position offers opportunities for skill development, leadership, and sustainability-oriented projects within IKEA’s values-driven environment.

Job Responsibility:

Responsible for Quality Assurance including process control for key processes in the production
Responsible for Supplier development for quality and manufacturing with a long term view to identify and implement actions of SDP projects to secure suppliers' production can achieve quality, capacity, throughput and cost expectation
Lead the running range (hand over from PTE i.e Product engineer, at first delivery inspection) towards the suppliers and secure the supply chain is robust with an effective quality management system, right quality and full compliance to IKEA requirements at all time
Responsible for continuously improving the supplier's production processes (reduction in scrap rate, defects, efficiency gains etc) and sharing best practices/knowledge by gathering and conveying product and production experiences to create pre-conditions for the suppliers to take full responsibility for their performance
Lead product deviation process with sense of urgency towards the causing part and capture learning from previous product deviations
Secure root-cause analysis, stock correction and implementation of corrective and preventive actions for received Quality Alarms and claims
Lead industrialization of minor new product development and contribute with competence to other news developments incl product/production risk assessment
Secure implementation of new and updated requirements
Secure final inspection and regular follow-up and feedback to the suppliers regarding quality performance to improve Customer Experienced Product Quality
Lead production risk assessments at suppliers
Evaluate potential new supplier’s production facilities and quality systems

Requirements:

Very good knowledge of production processes and technologies
Very good knowledge of IKEA requirements, standards and test methods
Very good at evaluating the suppliers' technical capability and quality performance to produce the IKEA product(s)
Good knowledge of Democratic design and customer needs and expectations regarding function, customer friendliness and products critical to quality (CTQ)
Good knowledge of Quality assurance set up including cost calculation and materials
Good knowledge of Lean production methods and tools (Root cause, FMEA, fishbone etc)
Good knowledge IKEA documentation system (e.g. PDOC and CONNECT)
Understanding of IKEA Strategic Landscape, IKEA Business model for growth and key processes (e.g. PDP, SDP, DPOP) and IKEA Purchasing Manual
Understanding of relevant Category Plans and Total Cost

Nice to have:

Experience in production environment and/or production process development
Production experience, experience on working on factory floor, handling mass production
Experience of relevant production technologies and materials
Lean Manufacturing methods and tools (FMEA, RCA, fish bone, 5 why etc)
Understanding of customers' needs and expectations towards the key and secondary functions of different products (e.g. safety, durability, ergonomics etc.)
Experience of industrial production conditions and Lean manufacturing
Knowledge about Total Quality Management
Experience to work in production with a process-oriented environment
Previous experience as Process or Production Engineer in manufacturing
Good knowledge about continuous improvements - Project Management skill

What we offer:

Opportunity to work closely with IKEA suppliers
Access to a huge knowledge base and experience in leadership, material, production, and value chain
Trust and space to test and try, explore, make mistakes and learn from it
Equal opportunity work environment free from discrimination and harassment

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
June 14, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

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