Senior LCA Practitioner, Product Sustainability Engineer

UL SolutionsNetherlandsOn-siteFull-timeSenior, 5–8 yearsListed 6 hours ago

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About this role

Help shape the future of sustainable products.

UL Solutions is seeking an experienced Senior Lifecycle Assessment (LCA) Practitioner to join our growing Product Sustainability team in Europe. This customer-facing role combines technical expertise, innovation, and sustainability leadership to deliver ISO-compliant LCAs, Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), and Product Carbon Footprints (PCFs) for global clients.

The ideal candidate is multilingual, internationally minded, and possesses a strong understanding of LCA standards, environmental regulations, comparative analytics, and decarbonization strategies. Most importantly, you bring a forward-thinking vision of where sustainability assessment is headed and a passion for helping shape what comes next.

With 5+ years of LCA experience, relevant certification, and strong knowledge of evolving regulations such as EU Battery Regulation, DPP, CBAM, and EPR, you will help organizations understand and reduce their environmental impacts.

Working across global teams, you will leverage advanced digital tools, guide sustainability strategies, contribute to industry working groups, and help define what's next for LCA and product sustainability.

Join UL Solutions, where safety and sustainability come together to create meaningful impact.

Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelors or Master’s Degree in scientific discipline or engineering.

• Language requirement: 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 where available, technical product level knowledge of the PCRs that guide this process.
• Comfortable with customers and scoping their needs to support sales teams.
• Solid experience analyzing both experimental and modeled foreground and secondary data sets.
• Strong understanding of LCA models including SimaPro, Gabi, OpenLCA, Excel based GREET and/or Python with the ability to project manage from client data compilation through LCA, reporting and collaboration with external verifiers.
• Experience in LCA related services including Product Carbon Footprint (PCF), Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) and ISO/ EN standards language.
• Expansive knowledge of secondary datasets, e.g. TRACI, EcoInvent, etc.

Preferred Qualifications
• Qualified Engineering or LCA Practitioner Certification.
• Qualified as a PEP Ecopassport Verifier.
• Knowledge or certification of Corporate Sustainability and/or Environmental Social Governance (ESG) reporting frameworks, including regulatory frameworks relative to Scope 3 and PCF.
• Participation in the global LCA conversation either as a panelist/ speaker or presenter in online webinars.
• Proficiency in programming in Python for models, algorithms, and code reviews.
• Expertise in technical committees on lifecycle assessment, engineering, atmospheric chemistry, environmental science, and/or computational sustainability.
• Working knowledge in machine learning and artificial intelligence.
• Peer reviewed published research work as articles or technical reports in academic conferences or industry circles.