roduction Engineer, Electronics & Home Accessories, Category Ceramics

Inter IKEA Group; Poland; On-site; PLN 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Inter IKEA Group is seeking a Quality Assurance professional to evaluate supplier facilities, ensure compliance with product requirements, and lead audits across our global supply base. You will apply lean tools, assess supplier technical capabilities, drive corrective actions, and collaborate with PTE and suppliers to secure cost, quality and delivery targets, while communicating effectively in English.

This role suits a hands-on leader who can balance meticulous analysis with practical problem

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of production processes and supplier quality.
• Knowledge of IKEA requirements, standards and test methods.
• Ability to evaluate supplier technical capability and quality performance.
• Familiarity with Lean tools and continuous improvement.
• Understanding of CTQs and cost calculations.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate potential new supplier facilities and quality systems.
• Secure implementation of specifications and product requirements at suppliers.
• Conduct quality audits and participate in audit planning and gap closing.
• Assess production risks and drive stable processes.
• Manage supplier quality performance and provide customer-focused feedback.
• Drive corrective actions and containment for deviations.

Skills

Production processes

IKEA standards

Supplier evaluation

CTQ understanding

QA cost calc

Lean methodology

PDOC/CONNECT

Strategic landscape

Total cost

Job description

One brand, many companies, and many, many people –that’susin a nutshell. Spread all over the world, we have a passion for home furnishing and aninspiring sharedvision: 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,manufactureand sales. And of course, it starts and ends with our customers.

Job specific key tasks and responsibilities

• Quality Assurance
• Evaluatepotentialnewsupplier’sproductionfacilitiesandquality systems.
• Secure implementation of specifications, product requirements, compliance to product requirements at Suppliers
• Quality audits –participateon setting of the audit plan, preparation, gapanalysisand gap closing.
• Assess production risks and strive towards stable processes.
• Informed and accountable for Supplier qualityperformance and provide feedback from a customer perspective.
• Manage Quality Compliance
• Request specific articles from PCS for spot checks.
• Conduct spot checks in DWP.
• Manage compliance deviations - agree and confirm causing party, root cause analysisinclcontainment, corrective and preventive actions.
• Act on deviations
• Handle safety alarms, investigate responsible parties, and implement corrective actions.
• Address corrective actions for various claims and quality issues.
• Undertake corrective improvement actions based on KPI analyses.
• Support PTE with corrective actions related to product adaptation.
• Supplier Development
• Continuously challenge supplier production processes and share best practices and good examples.
• Collaborate with Suppliers to create action plans (APL)
• Product Development - News, Moves, Improves
• Support PTE in the Development phase with production knowledge and Supplier input
• Work actively on product improvements to support cost out agenda
• Support suppliersfor the implementation of material agenda
• Manage implementation with support from PTE - verifying measurement systems (MSA) and production capability on CTQs.
• Manage information flow to/from IKEA and Suppliers, for example labels follow up, consumption, technical data, benchmarks.

To be successful in this role, below competences are important for you.

• Very goodknowledge of production processes and technologies
• Very goodknowledge of IKEA requirements,standardsand test methods
• Very goodat evaluate the supplier’s technical capability and Quality performance to produce the IKEA product(s)
• Good knowledge of Democratic design and customer needs and expectationsregardingfunction, customerfriendlinessand 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.

We are lookingfor..

• Mature, strong leadership, challenging, demanding and fair, good coach
• Drive and energy, hungry for business
• Goals oriented, hands-on approach and make things happen
• Good in conflict handling and looking for win-win solutions (firm & adaptable)
• Embracing and enabling innovation,automationand entrepreneurship
• Able to work both with details and with a holistic view, to draw conclusion and to be decisive
• Process oriented with good analytical skills and a structured approach.
• Capability to build trust and relationships, for long- term business partnership
• Excellent communicator in English, with assertive and influencing stakeholder management
• A team player (not working alone), inclusive and open

We always recruit based on values, competence,potentialand diversity. We will first consider co-workers employed at Inter IKEA Groupimpactedby organizational changes provided competence requirements are met for the role.