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Production Engineer will be responsible for a variety of responsibilities as listed. 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.
Job Responsibility:
Lead the running range 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 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
Lead industrialization of minor new product development and contribute with competence to other news developments incl. product/production risk assessment
Evaluate potential new supplier’s production facilities and quality systems
Be an IKEA ambassador of IKEA values always and do business with Fact-based Business Leadership
Requirements:
Background in engineering, quality and product/production development
Solid knowledge of production processes and manufacturing technologies, supported by strong lean expertise or hands‑on automation experience
Solid experience in manufacturing industry, experience in certification and testing globally would be preferred
Preferably having an engineering education and at least 5 years working experience
Strong communicative skills and speak both fluent Chinese and English in complicated environment with multiple stakeholders, and able to handle conflicts
Proven experience in supplier management & project management
Preferred experience in automative industry or electronics industry or home furnishing industry
Preferred knowledge of product development tools
Proactive approach
Familiarity with Quality tools (Six Sigma, Lean, etc.) is appreciated
Nice to have:
Preferred experience in automative industry or electronics industry or home furnishing industry
Preferred knowledge of product development tools
Familiarity with Quality tools (Six Sigma, Lean, etc.)