Senior LCA Architect for Sustainable Products

UL Solutions

Barcelona

On-site

EUR 70,000 - 90,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

UL Solutions is seeking a Senior Lifecycle Assessment (LCA) Practitioner to join our Product Sustainability team in Europe. This customer-facing role delivers ISO-compliant LCAs, EPDs, and PCFs for global clients, leveraging advanced digital tools and supporting decarbonization strategies.

With 5+ years of LCA experience and knowledge of EU regulations (CBAM, Battery Regulation, EPR), you will guide sustainability initiatives, work with global teams, and contribute to industry working groups to

Qualifications

Bachelor's or Master’s Degree in scientific discipline or engineering.
Fluent in English and at least one other EMEA language.
5+ years of professional experience in a position requiring Senior Level technical LCA modeling and work involving extensive quantitative data analysis.
Experience modeling EPDs from LCAs and knowledge of PCRs for guiding this process.
Comfortable with customers and scoping their needs to support sales teams.
Strong understanding of LCA models including SimaPro, Gabi, OpenLCA, Excel-based GREET and/or Python.

Responsibilities

Perform full LCA technical service to project manage LCA projects and ensure compliance, transparency, clarity and readiness of the LCA based services for third party critical review.
Generate LCAs and simplified EPDs, PCFs and/or regulatory preparation documentation including EPR assessments, CBAM preparation, EU Battery Regulation, PEP, PCF per PACT v3 (WBCSD), Catena-X and sector specific reports that require an LCA, EPD or/and PCF.
Solid understanding of global Product Category Rules (PCR) for core customer products, especially building and construction materials.
Ability to manage complex projects and interact with customers, leadership and global colleagues.
Exceptional analytical and communication skillset enabling clear results communicated and knowledge transfer to various stakeholders.
Provide clear, consistent, data-driven LCA results for customers environmental impact decision-making, decarbonization, sensitivity and uncertainty analytics.
Maintain current knowledge base to perform LCA as a practitioner and associated product level services (PCR, PCF, EPD, Optimization, PEP) including ISO 14025, ISO 14040, ISO 14044, ISO 14047, ISO 14067, EN15804+A1+A2, ISO21930, WCSBD (PACT) and other standards and frameworks for product and system level LCA services.
Able to work directly with clients to obtain and analyze complex primary datasets and gaps. Provide thought leadership to the UL Solutions expanding software capabilities to ensure data accuracy, comparability and quality. Contribute as a technical lead to Product Category Rule (PCR) open consultation and working groups as needed.