Research Scientist

Description

We are looking for a Life Cycle Assessment LCA and Sustainability Research Scientist to join our team.

As a LCA researcher you will be responsible for assessments of environmental issues across the full spectrum of our businesses and evaluating the sustainability impacts across the value chain. The ideal candidate will have strong industry experience modeling complex systems developing LCAs and emission factors EFs collecting and analyzing data and reporting results to leaders through visualizations and metrics. The candidate must be experienced working with imperfect data and quantifying and identifying sources of uncertainty.

The successful candidate must have strong math skills and the ability to apply systems thinking to complex fast moving problems. The candidate must have strong working-knowledge of scientific methods and international standards GHG Protocol ISO with extensive experience using Ecoinvent GaBi and USEEIO databases.

This candidate will also work under the direction of senior business leaders but will act as Subject Matter Expert for LCA-related analyses at the client including designing and leading research data collection modeling documentation interpretation and validation.

Key job responsibilities

-Create and maintain LCA methodologies and models including experimentation of footprint methods

-Develop documentation and annotations for scaling

-Ideate the creation and interpretation of innovative methods and standards

-Audits and performs validations of methodologies or complex models

-Encode methods into existing model architecture

-PhD or Master's degree and 3 years of quantitative field research experience and 1-2 years of directly-related commercial experience

-Ability to work within multidisciplinary teams at the interface of environmental and computer sciences

-Knowledge of R or Python

Experience Level

Entry Level