Packaging Solution Engineer - Product Development Platform Storage, Range Area Bedroom Furniture

In Range Area Bedroom Furniture, we are a diverse group of down-to-earth, straightforward people with a passion for home furnishing. We come from all over the world, but we share an inspiring vision: “to create a better everyday life for the many people”. We develop safe and affordable products for a beautiful, playful and more convenient life at home. Älmhult is home to IKEA of Sweden and here the IKEA range is developed and made available to stores and customers across the world.

We are a passionate and highly skilled team that are as curious and eager as you toexplore and make things better, always searching for new simple and smart solutions! This is not just a way of saying – we are making it happen!

You are part of the Product Development Platform Storage team at Range Area Bedroom Furniture, working across all Range Areas with storage furniture’s. Together with your team and collaboration partners, you always work close to the range and commercial function to understand the business and the consumer needs and turn these into solutions.

In IKEA we are having a high focus on removing the plastic in our packaging solutions and we need to be innovative to make it happen! We want you to be curious and explore how material development can make an impact for us and how it can be implemented in our products, in close collaboration with our suppliers.  

As Packaging Solution Engineer (PSE), you will develop, document, improve and maintain the optimal packaging solution for our products and solutions with a mid to long term view. This is done in close cooperation with designers, engineers, suppliers, and store co-workers, to ensure that the solutions will work all the way from the supplier to the customer. Some of your most important tasks will be to:

• Developing next generation packaging solutions for multichannel to meet demands on form, function, cost, quality, and sustainability and make sure they work through the total value chain and the whole product lifecycle
• Build a catalogue of solutions to be used in product development and documentation
• Keeping the documentation up to date and according to IKEA standards
• Securing that the packaging solution meets all legal requirements
• Exploring new materials and solutions for packaging and discovering ways to improve costs, reliability, and sustainability in packaging
• Improve our working methods for virtual development of packaging solutions

In this role you need to have analytical and creative skills and the ability to transfer knowledge, concepts, and ideas into packaging solutions. Since you will work across different development teams and Range Areas, you need to have effective communication ability, work in a proactive way, and make things happen through involving and engaging people.

We are looking for someone with knowledge in packaging construction in terms of drawing technique, technical solutions, and design for manufacturing. You have experience of working in 3D tools, preferably SolidWorks & Artios CAD. Furthermore, you have knowledge of packaging requirements and global packaging test methods and standards. You have a theoretical and practical knowledge about packaging and its impact in the value chain, from raw material to the co-worker and customer perspective.

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

Does this sound like your next challenge?

We look forward to receiving your application – CV and letter of motivation – in English by 23 September 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.

Preferred starting date is as soon as possible.

If you have any questions regarding the position, please contact Product Engineer Manager Mats Bredberg at Write an email

If you have any questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Recruiter, Monaka Perumal at Write an email