LCA specialist

About Us

Elementis is a global specialty chemical company, with 1,300 employees operating 17 manufacturing sites across the globe. At Elementis, we bring a distinctive combination of expertise, innovation, and teamwork to every formulation challenge. We create high-value specialty additives that enhance the performance of our customers' products and make a positive change in the world. Combining our leading positions in the science of materials flow, surface modification, and formulation with access to unique natural materials, Elementis delivers unique chemistry, sustainable solutions to customers in a wide range of markets, including cosmetics, anti-perspirants, decorative and industrial coatings, automotive and ceramics.

Job Description Summary

The role is the product life-cycle analysis (LCA) and product carbon footprint (PCF) expert for Elementis. Provision of product LCA / PCF data to customers is increasingly expected as standard practice globally. Developing new products with improved LCA / PCF is crucial to maintain competitiveness.

Job Description

The role is responsible for developing, conducting, maintaining and analysing our expanding product LCA/PCF information and capabilities. An LCA relies on complex specialised methodologies to calculate environmental impacts associated with a product. Elementis currently uses a tailored Excel tool to conduct LCA. The role is the principal user for this tool, generating LCA data reports for new and existing products, maintaining the LCA results database, updating the tool with new master data in collaboration with data owners across the organisation, analysing results to provide insight into trends and priority actions, and supporting communication of LCA results to external stakeholders (principally customers). We expect to transition to a new ERP-connected solution in future, and this role will work with IT to implement that solution.

Responsibilities

• You execute LCA/PCF calculations for our products using specialist tools. You ensure output reports are suitable for external sharing when necessary. You maintain an organised, accessible database of results.
• You guide the R&D organisation, providing LCA / PCF impacts of proposed new product designs and indicating how improvements could be made.
• You expand the capabilities of Elementis’ LCA tool, working with external suppliers and with internal sustainability, R&D and manufacturing teams, based on business priorities
• You analyse the LCA / PCF data reports, highlighting our most beneficial products and tracking product and portfolio performance trends over time. You create valuable insights for the business, highlighting opportunities and actions that make the most beneficial impacts.
• You maintain the raw data within the tool, with periodic updates of manufacturing, materials and emission factors, working with the wider business to collect relevant data.
• You maintain our LCA / PCF results in customer-specific data collection platforms.
• You support third party verification of our LCA / PCF results
• You recommend how to keep our LCA knowledge and capabilities up to date, tracking LCA standards updates, calculation capabilities, market benchmarking etc. This includes working with IT to implement a next generation LCA / PCF solution integrated with our new ERP system.
• You leverage your network to keep up with best practices and ensure continuous improvement.

Decision making

• You decide how best to organise and deliver your work to meet deadlines.
• You decide how best to utilise the tools at your disposal to produce results.
• You recommend actions for others based on your results and analysis.

Job Competencies

• Managing complexity: You make sense, for yourself and others, of large amounts of complex, sometimes ambiguous data. You can use this information effectively for internal reporting.
• Business insight: You apply your knowledge of our business and LCA methodologies to ensure accurate insights and analysis. You are tenacious in identifying the best people to collaborate with to deliver high quality outcomes. 
• Plan and align: You execute in a structured way. You allocate time and resources against deadlines, ensuring quality to have the desired outcomes. You identify and implement improvements in relevant processes.
• Collaboration: You build partnership with key contributors across the entire company to harness collective expertise. You benchmark practices externally. You identify and promote synergies between business aims and data processes/systems.
• Ensures accountability: You hold yourself and others accountable to meet organisational commitments, ensuring you have the support and engagement of your network and key contributors. 

Additional Job Description

Technical Knowledge and Skills

• Intermediate / Advanced understanding of different LCA & PCF methodologies (eg ISO14040, TfS, PEF, PACT etc).
• Basic understanding of chemical manufacturing processes and terminologies
• Fluent with numbers / technical information

Position Requirements

• Education: Degree-level education or equivalent years of experience. Professional qualifications / certifications / professional memberships are a bonus but not required.
• Experience: 3+ years of experience of conducting LCA/PCF in a consultancy or industrial organisation (example relevant sectors include - but are not limited to - chemicals, food, manufacturing).
• IT Skills: Familiarity with data collection and data management best practices; Ability to organise results archive for ease of use and updating; MSOffice, especially Excel.
• Language Skills: Fluent in English (written and verbal).
• Working arrangements:
• Traveling required:   Occasional