GSI Life Cycle Assessment Engineer
Stafford (Staffordshire) IT development
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Job Description Summary
Become part of a winning team and help to deliver the Green Energy transition.GE GRID GSI business is a combination of factories with products manufactured and the main part consist of multiple customer projects to install and perform commissioning of large installation for the GRID business in an Onshore and Offshore environment.
The Life Cycle Assessment Engineer leads development of the product environmental strategy for GE GRID GSI business, in line with customer and market needs.
This includes efforts to integrate environmentally driven insights into product and business decisions and standardize processes for the GSI portfolio (including products, services, and supply chain). The position requires previous knowledge and experience in LCA and eco-design to lead and implement product environmental process.
Additionally, the Life Cycle Assessment Engineer will have to develop the strategy around the ECI, Environment cost Indicator mainly based on the Netherland regulation that we will use for many projects and use in the company as a key indicator.
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 and designs that can be more easily recycled. Each of these design changes will come with environmental, performance and cost trade-offs that we need to be able to quantify using digital tools. Furthermore, we need to be able to utilize these insights to make strategic decisions on our technology decarbonization and circularity roadmaps.
The role is global, cross-functional and needs to have a strong understanding of the entire GE GRID GSI Value Chain.
Job Description
Essential Responsibilities:
As Life Cycle Assessment Engineer, you will:
- Lead integrate Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) into new product development, leveraging digital tools, as the basis for GE GRID GSI to set and measure progress towards ambitious targets on product environmental footprint and eco-innovation.
- Be responsible for the preparation of GE GRID GSI LCAs of products, services, customer projects, technologies, and supply chain in accordance with ISO standards.
- Be responsible for the deployment / calculation of the ECI (Environment cost Indicator) mainly based on the Netherland regulation, use in the company and for multiple customer project as a key indicator.
- Establish an Eco-design procedure as part of the NPI process by implementing tools, dashboards and KPIs that distill Eco data into actionable insights to inform design, planning, and implementation decisions.
- Establish, measure, and monitor product sustainability KPIs.
- Develop Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) and lead the respective certification processes.
- Collaborate across teams including NPI team, Materials Engineering, Sourcing and Manufacturing to automate life cycle inventories from GE GRID GSI operations and supply chain.
- Ensure process alignment with GE GRID Product sustainability lead and wider GE’s LCA practitioners’ community.
- Partner with GE GRID GSI’s 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 in engineering, Science, or a related field
- Master’s degree in engineering, Science or a related field
- Demonstrated 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
- Broader expertise on one or more key topics (e.g., bio-based materials, circular economy, biodiversity, industrial ecology)
- 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.
The North Europe Grid System Integration (GSI) team delivers a wide range of turnkey high voltage AC and DC transmission projects to its Customers in the UK, Ireland, and Scandinavia.
Grid Solutions, a GE Renewable Energy business, serves customers globally with over 13,000 employees. We provide power utilities and industries worldwide with equipment, systems and services to bring power reliably and efficiently from the point of generation to end power consumers. Grid Solutions is focused on addressing the challenges of the energy transition by enabling the safe and reliable connection of renewable and distributed energy resources to the grid. We electrify the world with advanced grid technologies and accelerate the energy transition.
About GE Grid Solutions:
At GE Grid Solutions we are electrifying the world with advanced grid technologies. As leaders in the energy space our goal is to accelerate the transition for a more energy efficient grid to full fill the needs of tomorrow. With a focus on growth and sustainability GE Grid Solutions plays a pivotable role in integrating Renewables onto the grid to drive to carbon neutral. In Grid Solutions we help enable the transition for a greener more reliable Grid. GE Grid Solutions has the most advanced and comprehensive product and solutions portfolio within the energy sector.
Why we come to work:
At GE Renewable Energy, our engineers are always up for the challenge - and we’re always driven to find the best solution. Our projects are unique and interesting, and you’ll need to bring a solution-focused, positive approach to each one to do your best. Surrounded by committed, loyal colleagues, if you can dare to bring your ingenuity and desire to make an impact, you’ll be exposed to game-changing, diverse projects that truly allow you to play your part in the energy transition.
What we offer:
A key role in a dynamic, international working environment with a large degree of flexibility of work agreements
Competitive benefits, and great development opportunities - including private health insurance.
Additional Information
Relocation Assistance Provided: No