Engineer – Life Cycle Assessment | Copeland | Pune, MH

Job description:

Copeland is looking for passionate individuals, who are motivated to execute environmental sustainability program in a leading technology company. As a LCA professional, you will be instrumental in supporting Copeland’s sustainable product strategy worldwide. You will be responsible for quantification of environmental footprint of Copeland’s extensive product portfolio and contribute to make our product environmentally superior.

Who you are?

• You are passionately motivated to make a difference and deliver exceptional work in driving environmental sustainability forward across a large corporation.
• You are a critical thinker with a strong eye for detail, but you are able to balance thinking and planning with actions
• You are focussed on priorities and set yourself stretch goals.
• You take time to ask questions and define the problem and make learning a priority.
• You engage in collaborative planning and can work in multiple projects concurrently.
• You identify and get to know your stakeholders and colleagues.
• You prepare content for communication that is impactful, helping transform intangible ideas into tangible actions and influencing decisions.
• You thrive on change, learning agility, intellectually curious.

Preferred qualifications, skills and experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering – Mechanical/ Electronics with 1-3 years of Mechanical /Electronics product based industrial experience preferably Mechanical Machineries such as compressor, Pumps or any other rotary Engines supported by electronic supplements. 
• Knowledge of Environmental Engineering, LCA modelling of mechanical / electromechanical products is preferred
• Understanding of LCA databases e.g. Sphera, Ecoinvent etc and should be efficient in using LCA modelling software, preferably “LCA for Expert” by Sphera
  • Skilled to interpret relevant LCA standards & guidelines (e.g. ISO 14040/44) and use them appropriately
  • Familiarity with climate change reporting frameworks (e.g. GHG Protocol, SBTi, etc.)
• Must be able to work fluently in English (written and spoken) as well as tools like PowerPoint and Excel
• A team player who demonstrates the willingness and ability to work effectively in diverse teams globally and collaborate with colleagues at all levels
• Strong qualitative and quantitative analytical and problem-solving skills with good attention to details
• Disciplined and with great organizational skills
• Strong communication, writing and presentation skills – proven ability to summarize complex material into key findings and implications for our business
• Experience in working on multiple projects at a time and prioritizing to meet the timelines

Responsibilities:

• Individual Contributor – To quantify environmental footprint of its products by conducting Full life-cycle assessments (LCAs), as part of Copeland’s global LCA program.
• Be responsible for data gathering and analysis, industry research, writing reports, preparing presentations, and presenting your findings to business leaders and management.
• Work with engineering design, procurement, IT, marketing, and sales teams globally towards project kick-off, collect relevant data, validate calculations, interpret the results of the life cycle assessments, run scenario analysis, conduct review, prepare clear and compelling reports and suggest recommendations to make our product environmentally superior.
• Interpret and stay updated with various applicable international standards. Evaluate available information in projects and determine compliance with those standards
• Organising, planning, prioritising the projects and accomplishing them
• Collaborate with external auditors towards critical reviews towards ISO certification
• Develop network with internal and external stake holders eg. Sustainability leaders, suppliers, external consultants to gather necessary information required for execution
• Develop standardised methods/ techniques/ processes based on concrete analytical techniques of LCA

In the longer term, you may need to:

• Support engineering design teams in incorporating relevant environmental footprint data into their product or solution designs.
• Support marketing, and business divisions by providing relevant environmental footprint information, which may be requested by suppliers or customers.
• Provide technical expertise through training on life cycle assessments to the rest of the organization.

Competencies:

• Collaborates
• Tech savvy
• Communicates Effectively
• Optimizes work processes
• Nimble Learning
• Plans and align