Life Cycle Assessment

**Newcastle Upon Tyne (occasional travel to EU countries for site surveys/meetings and home working available)**

**37 hrs per week (part-time working also considered)**

**Competitive salary, depending on skills and experience**

**Are you passionate about reducing the environmental impacts of society?**

**Is climate change and reducing carbon emissions important to you?**

**Do you want to work for a business which is growing and expanding?**

Here at Narec Distributed Energy; we are committed to ensuring real reductions in carbon emissions, and making a real impact on climate change. Our purpose is providing technical expertise and guidance to help our clients reduce all of their environmental impacts.

Due to our continued growth, we are recruiting a **Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Consultant** to join our existing LCA team..

This role would be focused on delivering commercial LCA consultancy, with a strong bias towards creating standards and methodologies. LCA studies would be undertaken using OpenLCA, following the principles of ISO 14040/44.

The work would involve drafting and publishing scientific papers in peer reviewed journals, presenting data at international conferences, creating new methodologies and frameworks, and occasional international travel.

**Responsibilities will include -**
- Undertaking Life Cycle Assessments for commercial Life Cycle Assessment projects
- Writing of ISO compliant LCA studies
- Creating ISO compliant industry specific LCA methodologies and carbon accounting methodologies
- Respond to tenders and write proposals
- Supporting the writing of funding bids
- Staying up to date with the latest literature on microalgae production LCA
- Writing of scientific papers
- Presenting at LCA conferences
- Take responsibility for ensuring the accuracy of proposals and quotations
- Adhere to all company policies and procedures and contribute to the continual development and refinement of the Narec DE management system.
- Degree in Chemical Engineering or related discipline

**Essential Skills & Attributes -**
- A genuine interest in the low carbon economy and sustainability
- Knowledge of LCA
- Knowledge of complex LCA industry specific methodologies (such as the carbon capture LCA4CCU methodology)
- Ability to write peer reviewed scientific articles
- Ability to draw detailed process flows for production systems
- Well organised and methodical, with very strong attention to detail
- Ability to work to deadlines and manage challenging situations
- High level of computer literacy
- Proactive and flexible approach to work
- Computer modelling
- Advanced use of Microsoft Excel
- Writing technical reports and proposals to required standards
- Undertaking site visits of various types of production facilities
- Energy monitoring
- Managing projects to time, quality & cost

**Desirable Skills & Attributes -**
- MSc with LCA related studies
- Experience of creating ISO 14040/14044 compliant LCA studies
- Experience of OpenLCA
- Experience of creating methodologies for LCA
- Understanding of the detailed physics of climate change
- Programming in Python
- Understanding of ISO 14040/44, the ILCD handbook, and LCA in general
- Knowledge of microalgae production systems
- Programming in Python

**We offer -**
- 25 days annual leave & 8 bank holidays
- A minimum 5% employee pension contribution matched by employer up to 10%
- Life assurance
- Company mobile phone & laptop
- Good long term progression prospects
- Flexible start/end times
- Two additional holiday days a year available for low carbon holidays

**Interested? Get in touch