Life Cycle Assessment Advisor

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Life Cycle Assessment Advisor

£35,000

Hybrid Role with HQ in Wollaston, UK

As our new Life Cycle Assessment Advisor, you will lead the assessment of our product life cycles, identifying opportunities for environmental improvement and shaping the future of sustainable chemical solutions.

You’ll be conducting comprehensive Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) for our chemical products, ensuring a thorough understanding of their environmental impact. Collaborating closely with R&D, production, and sustainability teams to develop and implement strategies for reducing environmental footprints.

By utilizing advanced LCA methodologies and software tools, you’ll be able to analyse data, providing actionable insights for product development and process optimization.

Some of your key responsibilities:

• Building and developing relationships with internal and external stakeholders to drive programs to completion.
• Act as the subject matter expert for product carbon footprint standards such as the ISO 14040 & 14067 standards.
• Developing reports, dashboards and metrics which distil complex data into actionable insights to inform AWS net zero carbon strategy.
• Author timely, responsive and proactive responses on matters of environmental sustainability from the company’s businesses, sites, customers, suppliers and distributors, including clarification of customer needs.
• Conduct of carbon accounting and develop carbon footprints to support sustainability reporting and carbon reduction strategies.
• Lead the reporting of EPDs, LCAs and carbon-foot printing results and activities to internal businesses and sites and external customers.

What do I need to be successful in this role?

• Awareness of global environmental legislation as it pertains to LCA and carbon footprinting.
• ability to apply Life Cycle Impact Assessment and carbon foot-printing methodologies and associated standards, protocols, and databases.
• understanding and experience of ISO 14040 and 14044 standards
• thinking and fast learning, comfortable with qualitative and quantitative problems, spreadsheets, approximations, and assumptions.
• planning and proactive communication, comfortable managing multiple projects simultaneously and balancing shifting priorities.
• ability to work closely with cross-functional teams to identify areas for environmental performance improvement and provide recommendations for reducing environmental impacts throughout the entire life cycle.

What’s in it for me?

• A competitive salary alongside being included into our company bonus scheme. Our Group Staff Bonus & Profit Performance Pay bonus scheme reinforces the Scott Bader principle of working together for a common goal and sharing in our successes.
• Enhanced employer contribution whereby Scott Bader will contribute a maximum of 2x your contribution, up to a maximum of 10%.
• Private medical insurance alongside a host of further discounts and employee benefit schemes
• 25 days annual leave entitlement plus Bank Holidays – We also offer the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 day’s annual leave in case you need a couple of extra days.
• We offer all our employees one full day per year to complete volunteering work of your choice which is fully paid. Alongside this, if you are thinking about fundraising for your favourite charity or local community event, we will happily match the funds that you have raised up to a maximum of £1000 in any one year.
• Our Head Office sits within 44 acres of Northamptonshire countryside, nestled within the village of Wollaston. Access to free onsite car parking, electric car charging points, discounted cafeteria and even an onsite swimming pool.

Who are Scott Bader?

Scott Bader is an employee-owned global manufacturer of advanced composites, structural adhesives and functional polymers. Established in 1921, we have a century of expertise in manufacturing high-quality, innovative products for a variety of markets around the world. Scott Bader now employs 800 people across 7 manufacturing sites and 18 offices worldwide.

We are committed to expanding our global reach, with recent ventures including North America, India, Japan and Australia, while continuing to build on our reputation for innovation, outstanding quality and technical expertise.

Scott Bader is different to most other companies. Our business is based on the simple principle of maintaining a balance between our social purpose and business needs. In 1951 we became the first UK company to hold a Common Ownership Certificate when the Bader family handed over their shares to the Scott Bader Commonwealth Ltd – in simple terms, this means that Scott Bader colleagues own and are responsible for the success and overall wellbeing of the company.

Diversity & Inclusion

Our aim is to create an environment that is welcoming to all people, and ensures we treat each other and customers with respect. We appreciate different and fresh ways of thinking, encouraging innovation where colleagues feel they can express their views freely, and create a working atmosphere in which everyone is able to deliver a high-quality service.