A chauffeur to Sweden’s UN ambassador says he endured Scandinavian-style torture when his boss forced him to singlehandedly build a massive IKEA wardrobe.

Carlos Figueroa, 52, a veteran driver for the Swedish Mission in Manhattan, says “handyman” was not part of his job description when he was tasked with assembling the more than 225-pound piece of furniture by himself in May 2012.

Figueroa, of the Bronx, filed a $1.7 million lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court late Wednesday against the Mission, saying he was hurt on the job and also citing discrimination from his superiors.

He says his boss at the time, the late Ambassador Marten Grunditz, sent him to the IKEA in Elizabeth, NJ, to buy “one or two” “Pax” wardrobes with “Hasvik” sliding doors. The furniture was too big and heavy for him to cart back to Manhattan, so his boss told him to order it.

But Figueroa’s IKEA nightmare didn’t end there: When the furniture arrived at the mission, he was ordered to assemble the 8-foot-by-7-foot piece by himself, despite instructions that warned that two people were required to put the wardrobe together.

An illustration in the pictures-only instruction booklet even highlights the point, showing a frowny-faced person with a pile of parts at his feet and a big “X” through them, next to two smiling people with the same parts at their feet who look ready to build some furniture.

But the additional help was never provided — despite Grunditz being aware that Figueroa wasn’t a “workman or carpenter,” his suit says.

The complicated, three-day project, which included installing hundreds of loose screws and parts, resulted in Figueroa falling off a five-foot ladder while trying to hang the sliding doors on the wardrobe.

He underwent back surgery to relieve pressure in his spine and fix pinched nerves and also suffered leg injuries.

“I’ll be in pain for the rest of my life. I’m disabled,” Figueroa told The Post when reached by phone. “It’s been very emotional. I’m still in a lot of pain.”

The injuries forced Figueroa, who first started working as a driver and office clerk at the Mission in 2006, to take two medical leaves of absence, from September 2013 through February 2014 and from May 2014 onward.

Figueroa continued working as a chauffeur after the serious spill, which only exacerbated his injuries, the suit says.

But he alleges he was instructed to lie to doctors about his continued duties “to avoid an uninsured Workers Compensation claim.”

“The important thing is for you to say that you don’t know how you got it and you don’t mention work,” a senior administrative officer under Grunditz texted Figueroa in December 2012.

“So you want me to lie,” Figueroa wrote back.

The worker responded: “Lying and withholding all info are two different things. You are an office clerk aren’t you? As it happens you don’t need to lie. As much as we don’t know the entire story behind your injury either,” the suit claims.

Figueroa is also suing his employer for discrimination, saying his colleagues, including Grunditz’s staff, made disparaging comments about Latinos and questioned him about various missing items at the Mission.

Grunditz seemed less than concerned after Figueroa came to him to complain about a colleague who told him that “Spanish people” were moving into her apartment building and asked him, “Why do ‘Spanish people’ smoke pot and drink so much?”

“You took her comments the wrong way,” Grunditz told Figueroa, the suit says.

At one point, the ambassador complained that Figueroa was “paid too much” and denied him overtime despite working up to 18-hour driving shifts, court papers say. Grunditz died last January.

“Mr. Figueroa is not going to try his case in the press. He has accurately described the facts and this will be for a jury to resolve,” said Figueroa’s lawyer, Stanley Chinitz. “Discussions occurred between the parties before the lawsuit was filed and the claims were unable to be resolved.”

The Swedish Mission was closed for the holidays on Thursday and its lawyer did not immediately return messages seeking comment.