Sustainability Life Cycle Assessment Practitioner - Staff

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Location: Bucharest, Romania

Visa Sponsorship Available: No

Relocation Assistance Available: No

Working Arrangement: Hybrid

About the Position 
The Sustainability Life Cycle Assessment Practitioner - Staff helps support Goodyear's better future strategy, efforts to evaluate sustainability related to business actions and reducing the footprint of the Goodyear portfolio (including products, services and supply chain). This position requires knowledge/experience in life cycle assessment (LCA) to support Goodyear LCA activities and requests for sustainability targets/performance. The incumbent will support projects pertaining to LCA (or related approaches) to inform on strategies, communications and marketing needs.
This role contributes to our company-wide strategic sustainability efforts with the goal of ensuring that the company’s sustainability efforts enhance business performance and supports the long-term interests of the company.
 

Primary Responsibilities

• Demonstrate ability to assess the life cycle impacts of Goodyear's products, services, technologies, and supply chain in accordance with ISO (International Organization for Standardization) standards and other associated methodologies to ensure robust/credible outcomes.
• Analyze/Manipulate data to develop life cycle inventories and create life cycle assessment models using LCA software. Interpret, document, and clearly communicate results of assessments to inform broader LCA team.
• Support the construction of life cycle assessment tools to enable teams to answer customer requests and inform on innovation processes.
• Continuous education on emerging trends and requirements in the field (globally). Contribute to building assessment capability through activities (such as exploration of new methods).

Required Education and Experience 

• 1+ years of experience in sustainability related field (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
• Experience using life cycle assessment software and developing models 

Skills and Abilities

• Broader expertise on one 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
• Strong analytical skills related to data manipulation, analysis and uncertainty
• Knowledge or experience supporting environmental claims is desired
• Experience working with multiple stakeholders is desired