Global Manager LCA & EPD

Join us at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin): Where purpose comes to life.

You’re purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Welcome to Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, where our purpose ‘to advance life around the world’ drives our entire global team.

Every day, we are thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges impacting the world. Whether it’s facilitating clean drinking water for communities, creating climate resilient cities, or designing more comfortable living spaces, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better.

Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we work for. How about you?

At Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin), we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments. And where is our help most needed? The places we live in: cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater. It’s time to join our team and help build more sustainable environments!

We are currently looking for a Global Manager LCA & EPD to join us at Schipol, the Netherlands, Wavin Nederland B.V., an Orbia business. If you want to make a difference and work for a purpose-led company, please read on.
 

Main purpose
Orbia B&I is uniquely positioned to help our customers address water & energy challenges, by offering sustainable customer solutions for water supply, sanitation, climate-resilient cities & better building performance. Sustainability is an integral part of our commercial proposition and embedded in our value chain. Through our extensive LCA (Life Cycle Analysis) & EPD (Environmental Product Declaration) program Orbia B&I is offering customers transparency and insight into the environmental impact of their construction projects, enabling building designers, planners, contractors and developers to choose more sustainable products and solutions. As Global Manager LCA & EPD you are responsible for creating and maintaining the creation of LCA and EPDs for the full product range of Orbia B&I. You will guide customers and also internal stakeholders through the subject of LCAs & EPDs and support them on opportunities and improvements identified.

Main responsibilities:
•    Conduct the creation of LCAs and manage the verification and publication of EPDs of B&I full product range
•    Manage and operate the third party LCA software. 
•    Coordinate with operations, supply chain, and procurement to collect the relevant environmental data
•    Develop a maintenance/update plan (how to make new EPDs/keep existing ones up to date) 
•    Interpret results and define improvement projects with procurement, logistics, operations and product management.
•    Act as key point of contact for all LCA and EPD related questions throughout the organization. 
•    Guide the various stakeholders through the subject of LCAs, EPDs and support them on opportunities and improvements identified via the calculations
•    Educate and train the commercial teams on the value of LCA & EPD in customer propositions. 
•    Monitoring market and regulatory trends on LCA and EPDs. 

Our requirements:
•    Master’s degree in relevant field – Environmental Sciences, Environmental Engineering or data focused study
•    Minimum 3 years of relevant working experience in comparable or related jobs (sustainability), and at least 2 years of experience with LCA/EPD projects and LCA Software.
•    Knowledge of Life Cycle Assessment and Environmental Product Declarations, related to amongst others, the methodologies, standards, verification processes and international developments
•    Language(s) and level of proficiency: English (fluent), Spanish language skills are a plus and other European language skills (German, French, Dutch etc.) are a plus for local collaboration
•    The role requires a thorough understanding of Life Cycle Assessment and Environmental Product Declarations, related to amongst others, the methodologies, standards, verification processes and international developments. 
•    Good IT skills, and proficient in working with LCA/EPD software technologies (Ecochain). 
•    Excellent data management and analytical skills.
•    Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage effectively with diverse stakeholders.
•    Strong project management skills, and a structured approach to work and managing time efficiently, Ability to manage projects at multiple locations/regions simultaneously.
•    Able to operate autonomously while being a team player who brings a positive, "can do" attitude to the workplace.
 

What Orbia Building & Infrastructure offers

Do you want to make a difference by working with a purpose? Count on a warm welcome at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin)! Here we take responsibility for each other and our company. We stay brave in pursuing calculated risks that fuel innovation. And we embrace diversity in perspectives, skills and talents to transform the way we work and the impact we have on the world. Above all we encourage all our employees to develop their talents and to become the best version of themselves. Together, as a strong team, we grow and deliver on our purpose every day. Orbia B&I is the place to be if you truly wish to make an impact. In addition to working with an enthusiastic, professional team in an international environment, we offer a competitive compensation and benefit package.

Organization

Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, is an innovative solutions provider for the global building and infrastructure industry. Backed by more than 60 years of product development experience, we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments for global citizens. Whether it’s to improve the distribution of clean drinking water, to make sanitation accessible for everyone, to create climate resilient cities, or to design comfortable living spaces, Orbia B&I collaborates with municipal leaders, engineers, contractors, and installers to help future-proof communities, buildings and homes. Orbia B&I has 11,000+ employees and 65 production sites worldwide, serving over 80 countries through a global sales and distribution network. Our key commercial brands are: Wavin, Amanco Wavin, Pavco Wavin, Plastigama Wavin, and Bow Wavin.

Orbia Building & Infrastructure is part of Orbia – a company driven by a shared purpose: to advance life around the world. Orbia operates in several sectors including: Polymer Solutions (Vestolit and Alphagary), Building and Infrastructure (Wavin), Precision Agriculture (Netafim), Connectivity Solutions (Dura-Line) and Fluor and Energy Materials (Koura). These five Orbia business groups have a collective focus on expanding access to health and wellness, reinventing the future of cities and homes, ensuring food and water security, connecting communities to information and accelerating a circular economy with basic and advanced materials, specialty products and innovative solutions. Orbia has a global team of over 24,000 employees, commercial activities in more than 100 countries and operations in over 50, with headquarters in Boston, Mexico City, Amsterdam and Tel Aviv. The company generated $8.2 billion in revenue in 2023.
Contact us

If you have questions or want to know more about the position, please contact Sumitra Bishwakarma via sumitra.bishwakarma@orbia.com. To apply, use the ‘apply’ button or e-mail your cover letter and English CV to sumitra.bishwakarma@orbia.com.

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