Property Maintenance Generalist
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IKEA Älmhult AB is seeking a Property Maintenance Generalist to oversee and maintain outdoor environments in Älmhult and at the Bölsö farm. This full-time role involves a variety of seasonal tasks including lawn care, snow removal, and minor repairs, ensuring safe and welcoming outdoor spaces. The position emphasizes sustainability and requires strong relationship-building skills with colleagues and stakeholders. The candidate will report to the Property Manager and must be service-minded and aJobbet i korthet
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Opportunity to work in a growing company.Professional development in daily work.Focus on sustainability in outdoor maintenance.
Ansök senast: Öppet tillsvidare
Publicerad: 2026-08-03
Beskrivning
- Job ID: R0015342-2
- Date posted: 03/08/2026 Company description
- Experience from working with and maintaining outdoor environments
- General knowledge and interest in property maintenance
- Beneficial, but not a requirement to have previous experience from working with tools and equipment normally used for outdoor maintenance
- Basic computer skills Microsoft Office Applications
- Good understanding in both Swedish and English
- Driving license (B)
With a unique Småländsk history, Älmhult is the heart of IKEA, where we have our roots. It's the home of functional, well-designed, and affordable Swedish home furnishing and a center for innovation. We call it Democratic design.
IKEA Älmhult AB, including IKEA Museum, IKEA Hotell, and IKEA Property, is on an exciting journey to make Älmhult an even better place for the next generation. We want Älmhult to grow, with both people and businesses and make this a unique and attractive place where the many people can experience IKEA yesterday, today, and tomorrow. We want to build the next generation of culture carriers and to strengthen the IKEA Brand. Are you ready to be part of this journey?
Job description
As a Property Maintenance Generalist, your main responsibilities will be to maintain, supervise, develop, and take care of our outdoor environments in Älmhult and at the Bölsö farm. You work to ensure that our outdoor areas are well maintained, safe, and welcoming for both our employees and our guests. Your responsibilities include mowing lawns, trimming vegetation, weeding, irrigation, leaf collection, hedge trimming, tree pruning, brush clearing, as well as planting and maintaining green spaces. You will also be responsible for the inspection and upkeep of walkways and parking areas.
During the winter season, your duties include snow removal and ice control. In this role, you will carry out regular inspections to identify and report faults, damage, and safety hazards, as well as perform minor repairs and maintenance work in outdoor areas. You will also assist with the servicing, care, and basic maintenance of the machinery and equipment used in daily operations.
The tasks vary according to the season, weather conditions, and current operational needs, making the role both diverse and independent.
IKEA outdoor area in Älmhult is a priority area, we want it to be tidy and nice. We will continue to focus a lot on developing our outdoor areas moving forward, creating green, attractive spaces made for people instead of parking that reflects who we are and our love for life at home. In this role you will be part of the journey and the development of such outdoor spaces. You contribute by actively develop and maintain strong and long-term relationships with colleagues, tenants, suppliers and other stakeholders. Meeting their expectations and making the business locations sustainable and attractive.
Sustainability is a big part of your agenda, and you make sure to integrate it in your daily work.
The employment includes duty-on-call service for outdoor areas for snow and ice removal during the winter period.
Qualification
We are looking for you who is service minded, and self-driven with a passion for outdoor environment, always with sustainability in mind.
We see that you have:
It is beneficial if you have previous experience from working outdoors with maintenance of commercial or public outdoor areas or specific knowledge in tree pruning or similar.
As a person, you are service-oriented and have a solution-oriented way, which is reflected in your way of communicating with colleagues and partners. You have the ability to build good relationships and you are a team player. You are driven by efficiency, dare to challenge and the opportunity to change for the better. You can work in a fast-changing and complex environment, with simplicity in focus.
We see that you are unpretentious, honest and enjoy working as well independently as in a team. You have a positive attitude, are solution-oriented and have a strong drive with a good ability to collaborate. Together with your colleagues, you work to develop and support in a service-oriented way and take your own initiatives to get things done.
For us at IKEA, it is always most important that you share our values. This means that you, just as we believe in leadership through the good example, you have a high drive of your own to constantly develop and influence so that tomorrow we are somewhat better than we are today.
In IKEA we believe that a mix of people with different genders and backgrounds leads to better ideas, wiser decisions, and a more fun work environment. We promote equality, diversity, and inclusion!
More Information
We are looking for a candidate, who will be focused on the outdoor environment , meaning the work tasks will be performed outdoors main part of the year.
This is a permanent position full time (40 hours per week) and does also include duty-on-call service. You are located in Älmhult and will report to the Property Manager at IKEA Property AB, Älmhult.
We look forward to receiving your application - CV and letter of motivation - in English or Swedish, no later than 23rd of August, 2026. Kindly note, we will continuously interview candidates and may close the job ad earlier. Due to GDPR and Data Privacy, we do not accept any applications via e-mail.
For questions about the position please contact Anna Bergstrand, Property Manager at anna.bergstrand4@inter.ikea.com.
If you have questions about the recruitment process, please contact Isabella Carlsson, isabella.carlsson4@inter.ikea.com.
We offer you the opportunity to work in a growing company where you can further develop your professional skills in your daily work!
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