Product Lifecycle Engineer

Company Description

Would you like to be part of creating a better everyday life for the many people? By developing affordable products and solutions for people all around the world?

Älmhult is home to IKEA of Sweden and here the IKEA range is developed and made available to stores and customers across the world.

To cook and eat together is for many a way to share, not only a meal, but also to hang out together, share stories, traditions, discussions, and opinions. It’s a social activity, full of life and energy. Our goal is to support the many people in their everyday cooking and eating activities and deliver a wide range of products, designed for both cooking healthy in a sustainable way, and enjoying eating them together.

We are a team of about 50 colleagues who work across the Cooking & Eating business. Together we focus on developing an excellent cooking & eating offer to enable a healthy, sustainable, and enjoyable life around food. For the many people and always with the low price in mind.

We are looking for our next Product Lifecycle Engineer that will support our development and lifecycle our technical documentation. This is a 12 month contract.

Job Description

As Product Lifecycle Engineer (PLE) you will be a part of our engineering team, responsible for maintaining our product range by supporting with administration, documentation, verification and other engineering activities. You will help to ensure that product information is up-to-date and according to IKEA documentation guidelines and standards.

Main responsibly and tasks:

• Responsible for making moderate changes to products including technical requirements, CAD drawings and labels. 
• Securing that technical product documentation is up to date and according to IKEA documentation guidelines and standards. 
• Support our engineering team, in running range operations
• Finding and acting on gaps in product documentation.
• Taking responsibility for the legal compliance marking of the products. 
• Working closely with engineers in several teams including purchasing organization and several product areas in parallel.

To succeed in your role, you need to be able to take and give responsibility, lead yourself and work together with stakeholders from different functions and departments throughout our organization.

Are you up for the challenge? Then this just might be for you!

Qualifications

Who are we looking for?

Ideally, you have a Degree in Engineering. We also want to see that you are:

• Passionate about keeping things in order
• Committed and self-driven with a strong will to influence and make a difference. 
• Working in a structured way and take the lead in planning and executing your own work.
• Strong in your communication skills and build good, trustful relations.
• Structured in your ways of working and you have strong analytical skills
• Self-motivated with a goal- and delivery-oriented mindset with a passion for details.
• Highly committed to your assignment with confidence to drive yourself.
• If you have experience in 3D drawings and SolidWorks it is a plus

IKEA of Sweden is a truly global environment, with colleagues from all over the world and you therefore need to be fluent in English both verbal and written.

Additional Information

Please note that this assignment is a temporary contract for 12 months 

The position is full-time and placed in Älmhult. We believe that your presence with the team and working majority of the time in the workplace is important

We look forward to receiving your application, CV and answer to the below questions, in English, by or before the 5th March 2025.

• What do you believe will be your main contribution to this position? 
• What values & strengths will come through in your work?

For questions about the role, please contact the Hiring Manager Anders Eng: [email protected]

For questions about the recruitment process, please contact the recruiter, Carolina: [email protected]