Production Engineer, Protein Category in IKEA Food

Job Description

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.

You 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.

We 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.

Since 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!

Qualifications

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:

• are expert in quality assurance and follow up
• are familiar with product audits and production risk assessments at supplier sites
• are responsible for supplier development so you have experience in lean manufacturing and six sigma
• are leading the continuous improvements agenda from a production perspective
• have the interest and drive to build trust and partnership to reach common goals

For 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.

Additional Information

We 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.  

The recruitment will take place continuously so please send in your application in English as soon as possible but no later than 20th September 2026. For this role we are have 3 positions open. 

If you have any questions about the role or the recruitment, please send your questions forward through the Smart Recruiter system. 

If you are the right person for this position, we can offer you an assignment in a global organization with a great possibility to build and create something new, where your ideas are heard and where the goal always is “to create a better everyday life for the many people”! 

IKEA Food develops and provides the food sold and served in all IKEA Restaurants, Bistro´s, Swedish Food Markets and the IKEA co-worker restaurants. IKEA Food has over 400 restaurants in over 50 markets and every year 650 million guests are enjoying the IKEA Food.

Please note that, due to the summer vacation period, there may be longer response times and some delays in the recruitment process, particularly during mid-July and early August. We appreciate your patience and look forward to hearing from you.