Mechanical Design Engineer

1 month ago


Älmhult, Sweden Inter IKEA Group Full time
Job 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.

In Range Area Store & Organise furniture, we are looking for a Mechanical Design Engineer to our Engineering Lifecycle Team. In this assignment you will mainly focus on maintaining and improving our running range in close collaboration with our Development Teams, Categories and other stakeholder’s in our value chain. It will be various tasks in your assignment, like leading improvement projects as well as updating and maintaining products and product documentation in our running range. You will also support our news-development depending on our news-portfolio.

As a Mechanical Design Engineer you will: 

  • Develop technical product design and solution that meets identified product requirements, business ambitions and customer needs.
  • Create technical product design using Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and 3D modelling programs.
  • Implement and apply IKEA standard materials, solutions, and platforms to drive cost savings and meet sustainability and circularity ambitions.
  • Collaborating with development partners, designers, and manufacturers to ensure design specifications are met.
  • Initiate development tests and computer simulations to optimize and verify product design and technical solutions.
  • Mitigate product risks to secure safe products.
  • Create technical documentation like 3D models, technical drawings, assembly instructions, assembly time, bill of components and other specifying product documentation.
  • Identify and give recommendations for After Sales Parts from a quality and circular perspective.
  • Break down product construction to relevant part structure level with all ingoing components and fittings.
Qualifications

 

We are looking for a team player who is passionate about creating the best possible product for the customer at the right price, with the right quality, a beautiful design, and with a clear focus on sustainability. You are driven to come up with new and innovative solutions. 

We believe that you have: 

  • Higher technical or University degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent experience and being well versed in material science, FEM-analysis and mechanical design. 
  • Previous experience in product development for some years.
  • Experience with mechanical design, geometric dimensioning, tolerancing, simulation, drawing techniques and 3D-modelling. 
  • Knowledge using Computer Aided Design (CAD) programs and product lifecycle management systems such as SolidWorks and PTC Windchill. 
  • Preferably, knowledge within production.

For this position we highly value great communication skills and the ability to lead yourself to make things happen. To be successful in this role you also need to have both analytical and creative skills and the ability to transfer knowledge, concepts, and ideas into technical product designs and solutions. 

Additional Information

Does this sound like your next challenge?

We look forward to receiving your application. Please upload your CV and include your responses to the following three questions – in English  no later than 20th May 2024. Be sure to keep your answers short and concise:

  • Why are you interested in working for IKEA?
  • What do you think you would bring to this role and makes you an ideal candidate?
  • What kind of product development experience do you have?

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.

This is a permanent onsite position located at Älmhult, Sweden.

If you have any questions regarding the position, please contact  Engineering Manager Jessica Nilsson  at jessica.nilsson5@inter.ikea.com  

If you have any questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact  Recruiter Måns Persson  at  mans.persson@inter.ikea.com

We are looking forward to reading your application



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