Product Engineer

Requirement: Life Cycle Assessment Engineer

Location - Pune

Life Cycle Assessment Engineers have an important role to play in designing our products with circularity and low-carbon footprint in mind: utilising more recycled materials into our products, reducing waste in our designs and our manufacturing, extending the lifetimes of our products, and developing materials

As Life Cycle Assessment Engineer, you will:

• Lead integrate Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) into new product development, leveraging digital tools, as the basis for Customer to set and measure progress towards ambitious targets on product environmental footprint and eco-innovation. 
• Be responsible for the preparation of Customer’s LCAs of products, services, customer projects, technologies, and supply chain in accordance with the industry standards.
• Be responsible for the deployment / calculation of the ECI (Environment cost Indicator), use in the company and for multiple customer project as a key indicator. 
• Establish, measure, and monitor product sustainability KPIs.
• Develop Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) and Support in the respective certification processes.
• Collaborate across teams including NPI team, Materials Engineering, Sourcing and Manufacturing to automate life cycle inventories from the customer operations and supply chain.
• Ensure process alignment with customer Product sustainability lead .
• Partner with customer Communications and Commercial teams in developing communication materials related to product environmental assessment and customer product requirements.
• Communicate findings and recommendation to the wider Engineering, Sourcing and Manufacturing teams, translating environmental information into easily understood materials for internal and external stakeholders.

Qualifications / Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree/Post Diploma in engineering, Science, or a related field
• Master’s degree in engineering, Science or a related field
• Demonstrated 4-6 years of experience in sustainability related area (including application of life cycle assessment or foot printing methodologies)
• Knowledge of quantification of environmental impacts and understanding of environmental science and issues related to the environment, circular economy, and eco-design as they relate to products and operations.
• Familiarity with life cycle assessment standards and guidelines (including ISO 14040/14044) and corporate sustainability standards.
• Familiarity with ECI Calculation methods
• Experience using life cycle assessment software and developing models.

Desired Characteristics   

• Ability to communicate complex information on sustainability and data to non-technical audiences.
• Exceptional analytical skills related to data manipulation, analysis, and uncertainty.
• Knowledge or experience supporting environmental claims.
• Experience working with multiple stakeholders.