Product Engineer, Electronics & Home Accessories - Ceramics

Location: Bucharest, Bucharest, ro

Company Description

At IKEA, we're driven by a simple vision: to create a better everyday life for the many people.

By developing well-designed, functional, and affordable home furnishing products, we aim to make everyday life better for people around the world. Our value chain spans product development, sourcing, manufacturing, and retail, and success comes from close collaboration with colleagues and suppliers across the globe.

In Category Ceramics, you'll be part of a team working to develop and improve products that reach millions of homes. Together, we continuously challenge ourselves to find better ways of working, improve sustainability, and create products that combine great design, quality, and affordability.

Job Description

As a Product Engineer – Ceramics, you will be responsible for bringing products from development into successful production. Working closely with suppliers and cross-functional teams, you will secure that products meet requirements for quality, compliance, functionality, sustainability, and affordability.

This is an exciting opportunity to combine product development, manufacturing, and supplier collaboration while contributing to products that make a difference for the many people.

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Leading the implementation of new products, product changes, and product improvements.
• Securing product readiness through risk assessments, testing, validation, and technical documentation.
• Supporting suppliers during industrialization and production start-up activities.
• Driving product quality and compliance, including managing deviations and improvement actions.
• Developing supplier capabilities and supporting continuous improvements in production performance.
• Building strong partnerships with suppliers and stakeholders across product development, sourcing, and supply.
• Contributing to material development and sustainability ambitions within the category.

Qualifications

KNOWLEDGE:

• Very good understanding of Democratic design and customer needs and expectations regarding function, customer friendliness and products critical to quality (CTQ)
• Very good understanding of Democratic Design and customer needs and expectations regarding function, customer friendliness.
• Very good knowledge about DPOP and WoW in the Range Area
• Very good knowledge of the product requirements, standards and test methods to verify requirements of products.
• Good knowledge of materials' properties and construction and its impact on cost and sustainability
• Good knowledge of production processes and technologies
• Understanding of IKEA Strategic Landscape, especially IKEA Purchasing Strategy, IKEA Business model and 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

MOTIVATION:

• Strong motivation to work in team, lead through engaging and coaching people.
• Result oriented, high energy and self-driven way of working to deliver better products by involvement of right stakeholders at IKEA & Suppliers.
• Sense of urgency and a never compromise attitude towards quality.
• Eager to actively search for information and continuously learn from good examples and mistakes and share experiences.
• Interest and drive to build trust and partnership to reach common goals.

CAPABILITIES:

• Capability of project leadership and its key element as scope, time, plan, stake holder and change management
• Capability to work and align cross business teams, optimize, anchor and deliver products impacting many suppliers and regions.
• Process oriented with good analytical and structured approach.
• Capability to act in reality and follow up to secure proper and consistent implementation.
• Ability to make decisions and solve problems with a holistic view; always act with the customer, supplier and total IKEA in mind.
• Good communication skills in English both written and verbal

Additional Information

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

The last day to send your application is 15th of September 2026. Please note that we will review applications continuously, so do not delay—make sure to show your interest in the role as soon as possible. We are interviewing on an ongoing basis and will close the advert once we find the right candidate.