Product & Process Improvement Engineers to Swedish Match

Passionate about driving product excellence and innovation? Want to build scientific knowledge to connect product development, manufacturing, and customer needs to enhance product quality and manufacturing efficiency, thus ensuring high-quality, market-ready products?

Swedish Match product portfolio and operations are growing, and we are looking for Product & Process Improvement Engineers to help us improve product quality, optimize manufacturing processes, and support future growth. In this role, you will work at the intersection of product development, production, and customer needs. Using data, analysis, and scientific methods, you will identify improvement opportunities, solve quality challenges, and drive more efficient and sustainable processes.

Main responsibilities

As a Product & Process Improvement Engineer you will improve product and process performance by identifying areas for optimization and applying a rigorous scientific approach. You will be the link between development, production, and customer needs, filling the gap of understanding on material, process, product and formulations. By analysing manufacturing data, performing root cause analysis, evaluating process parameters impact on product attributes and implementing corrective actions you will help streamline operations, reduce waste, and maximize productivity, balancing speed to delivery and scientific accuracy.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Address characterization gaps for chemical and physical characteristics of semi-finished products, pouches, and finished goods to improve specifications and technical sheets.
• Identify root causes of priority consumer complaints and develop mitigation plans to align product performance with quality and expectations.
• Analyse manufacturing losses and implement corrective actions to improve product quality and efficiency.
• Adapt product designs to support company strategy and market growth; enhance technical sheets for second-source qualification amid regulatory changes.
• Assess ingredient aging, storage, and variability effects on quality, providing specification feedback.
• Drive continuous improvement aligned with consumer needs, quality, regulatory, and manufacturing goals.
• Prepare for material replacements in line with product roadmap and sustainability targets.
• Apply scientific methods in test design and data analysis for actionable insights ensuring knowledge building and retention through scientific reports.

This position belongs to Innovation & Product Development and is based in Gothenburg. You will report to Manager Technical Product & Change Management. Please note that relocation support is not available for this position.

Your profile

We are looking for someone with

• University degree in Chemical, Material, Mechanical, or Industrial Engineering.
• 3-5 years’ experience in product development, manufacturing, or quality, preferably in a multinational setting.
• Strong analytical skills, including root cause analysis and data interpretation
• Knowledge of product design, materials, and manufacturing processes
• Experience with data analysis and statistical methods
• Good project management skills (e.g., Agile or Waterfall)
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across teams
• Fluency in English and good knowledge of Swedish

This role combines your technical skills, scientific approach, action orientation with project coordinating skills while organising trials, and you will collaborate with many other functions in the organization. We place great emphasis on your personal qualities and value an innovative and curious approach combined with a data driven, problem-solving mindset. To be successful in this role, you should enjoy alternating between diving into product and production data and performing root cause analysis, while also taking an interest in understanding consumer needs and user experience.

We are looking for someone who thrives in a global organization offering strong opportunities for development, influence, and personal responsibility. This role involves extensive cross-functional collaboration, so if you enjoy building relationships and working closely with other functions, we believe you will be a great fit.

Contact

In this recruitment process Swedish Match collaborates with Mpya Sci & Tech. For questions about the position, you are welcome to contact Recruitment Consultant Johanna Engblom on +46 (0)733-200 900. Please send in your application through www.mpyascitech.com no later than April 19th. As part of our recruitment work, our final candidates will undergo a background check, this to increase awareness of our employees.

About Swedish Match

Swedish Match develops, manufactures and sells quality products under market-leading brands in the product segments Smokefree, Cigars, and Lights. Production is located in seven countries with the majority of the Group sales coming from the US and Scandinavia. Since 2022 Swedish Match is wholly owned by PMI, Philip Morris International. With a flexible, innovative and sustainable approach, we work to have the right strategy, people, skills, products and structure in place. All in order to be able to quickly meet changing market conditions.  

With a portfolio consisting of both modern brands and brands with a long tradition, Swedish Match offers products with and without tobacco. Offering tobacco consumers alternatives to cigarettes is at the heart of what we do. Always with our vision in mind: A smokefree future. Read more about Swedish Match at www.swedishmatch.com