Packaging Solution Engineer

As our new Packaging Solution Engineer, you will be a part of developing the new Cooking & Eating product range as well as improve and maintain our running range. Your main responsibilities will be:

• Develop packaging solutions meeting democratic design demands of form, function, cost, quality, and sustainability.
• Create packaging solutions suitable for the total value chain, from supplier to customers’ homes.
• Develop packaging solutions suitable for multichannel environment
• Develop new packaging solution concepts, applicable to certain product types
• Explore new innovative packaging materials to improve cost, quality and sustainability.
• Secure compliant and updated packaging solutions, meeting applicable requirements and IKEA standards.
• Identify and implement packaging solution improvements on running range

We believe you have knowledge in designing packaging solutions in terms of modelling, packaging materials and design for manufacturing. You have experience and knowledge from working with 3D tools such as Artios CAD or SolidWorks.

Furthermore, you have knowledge in requirements and global packaging test methods/standards for packaging solutions. You have a theoretical or practical knowledge about packaging solutions and its impact in the value chain, from raw material to the co-worker and customer perspective.

In this role you need to have analytical and creative skills with a passion for details. You will work with many stakeholders and need to have effective communication ability, work in a proactive way, and make things happen through involving and engaging people.

As a person you are highly committed, confident in your expertise and have a humble approach. You are motivated by working in a rapidly changing environment. You find motivation from being creative finding new solution, but you can also be very simple and pragmatic, with a hands-on approach.

You will be welcomed to a workplace with trust and support from leaders and colleagues and there will be expectations on you to perform and develop yourself and the business. You will be part of a team with smart and caring people who are very proud of what they do, and love to have a lot of fun!

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 letter of motivation – in English latest on the 19th November 2024. Please note that we will be interviewing continuously, which means that we may close the application process earlier than stated if we find the right candidates.

For further information regarding the assignment, please contact Hiring Manager Mats Svensson on +46 728865132. If you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact People & Culture Recruiter:

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