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Göteborg, Västra Götaland, Sverige

Managing the program team responsible to develop the Zeekr US Aftermarket infrastructure set up for WAYMO autonomous taxi operations in USA. The infrastructure project cover the complete aftermarket set up including Service Engineering, IT System development and supply chain of parts and vehicles.

Gothenburg

Director for the team of supplier quality engineers and responsible for the supplier quality assurance and production process improvement for automotive suppliers in Europe and USA.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Landmark Group, Homecentre division, is a retailer with more than 80 stores across the middle East, Africa and India. As global Head of Quality I have an end to end responsibility to develop safe and good quality products and services, to the lowest total cost, that brings customer value for money!

Älmhult

Global Process Manager for the IKEA Quality Deviation Process, with responsibility to develop and improve IKEA cross functional way of working with Quality Deviations. The quality deviation process consist of threee main steps, starting with collecting and gathering of all deviation global input through multiple of input channels, from direct customer input to supply chain inputs and external 3rd party input. Second step is about creating an efficient and lean execution process for handling all quality deviations in terms of investigation, problem solving, immediate actions like sale stops or delivery stop, but also corrections for total stock situation in the IKEA supply chain including claim and finacial settlement. The third step is to enable learning from all quality deviation data in terms of data mining, trend analysis and presentation capabilities towards IKEA stakeholder.The job involves all parts of the IKEA organization from product development, supplier production, distribution and storage to selling meeting all the customer around the globe. The total process scope includes the IKEA core range of homefurnishing products and IKEA Food products.

Älmhult, Sweden

Global Product Quality Manager, IKEA Trading Operationsfor IKEA Purchase Operations based in Älmhult, Sweden. Our head office for both development and purchase mgmt are located in this small village in the heart of south Sweden, where we lead the IKEA purchase operations covering some 10 000 products supplied by 1100 suppliers in some 40 different countries around the globe! My responsibility was to develop and lead the implementation of the IKEA Everyday Product Quality strategy through our regional Purchase Managers and Quality managers in our nine different purchase regions. I am also responsible for the Quality matrix and support functions within Quality supporting the whole purchase organisation with operation performance support within our processes.

Shenzhen City, Guangdong, China

As Quality & Sustainability Manager I was leading a team of some 50 quality engineers and a team of 20 sustainability engineers and environment auditors. We covered all quality assurance for IKEA products in the range sourced from 350 suppliers. A fantastic challenge and an exciting journey living and working in China gave me the chance to develop my leadership and understanding of the Chinese culture.

Älmhult

Project Manager PRODOC, IKEA of SwedenIn this role I was running the pre study for the next generation of the new IKEA product documentation system, called PRODOC. The job was run within TQE department and meant a lot of contacts and networking within the IKEA supply chain and IOS. The target was to create a model for a future documentation system for creation, archiving and editing, in a simple and efficient way.

Tibro

Technical Manager, Swedwood Tibro This job brought me in to IKEA and the processing of Flat Line furniture. My responsibility was to develop a highly automated and efficient production. Totally the job meant to implement TPM as well as measurement systems for keeping high standards for quality supervision and proactive maintenance. During my time in Tibro we invested some 100 million sek in new highly automated equipment and machinery for veneered flat line production, such as robot packing line and stacking, automatic edge banding, UV Lacquering line and automatic veneer pressing.

Ulricehamn

Factory Manager, Dayco Automotive Industries Here I was responsible for the whole supply chain from buying the raw material to production of the customer specified products under efficient and environmentally sound conditions, where the deliveries on time at the right quality to the lowest total cost was an absolute focus. I had the responsibility for 120 co workers in the factory including purchase, production, maintenance, customer selling and support to factory management. Dayco Automotive is a supplier to Volvo and Scania Trucks and busses and produces distribution systems for liquids to the engine and its subsystems. The factory is located in Ulricehamn, Sweden.

Jönköping, Torsvik

Research & Development Manager, Electrolux Home AppliancesHere I worked as the development manager for the group only department for water purifiers based in Jonkoping, Sweden. My responsibility was to develop these products for the global market. Production units were located in Tianjin, China, Manila in the Philippines, and Delhi in India, where some of the development work was done as well. The job was to develop the function according to a specification, to the lowest possible cost at the highest stable quality. I was responsible for 20 engineers covering all fields, such as electronics, chemical, mechanical, test, and lab engineers.

Borås, Sweden

Mechanical CAD Engineer Employed for 3,5 years at Industrifilter as a Mechanical Engineer, producing drawings and specifications for air intake and combustion systems to offshore and land based turbine and diesels plants for the local production. The design was done in HP ME10 CAD system. The factory was located in Boras, Sweden.

Bsc Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Applied Science - Basc, Mechanical Engineering/Mechanical Technology/Technician