Newcastle Upon Tyne (travel within the UK, specifically the Tees Valley, for site surveys/meetings and home working available)

37 hrs per week (part-time working also considered)

Competitive salary, depending on skills and experience

Are you passionate about reducing the environmental impacts of society?

Is climate change and reducing carbon emissions important to you?

Do you want to work for a business which is growing and expanding?

Here at Decerna; we are committed to ensuring real reductions in carbon emissions, and making a real impact on climate change. Our purpose is providing technical expertise and guidance to help our clients reduce all of their environmental impacts.

Due to our continued growth, we are recruiting a Graduate Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) Consultant to join our existing LCA team. .

This role would be focused on delivering commercial LCA/EPD consultancy, with a strong bias towards performing Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) and running workshops.

The work would involve site visits to clients, collating data on various industrial processes, and working with the LCA experts in Decerna to create EPDs, which would be published on EPD International for a range of products. It would also include supporting on training and workshops on EPDs.

Responsibilities will include –

Client meetings
Site visits to collect information from clients
Undertaking Life Cycle Assessments to be used within EPDs
Staying up to date with the latest literature on LCA
Supporting on workshops

The successful candidate will have the following minimum qualification -

Degree in a relevant science based discipline (for example, chemical engineering, chemistry, biochemistry, biology, physics)

Essential Skills & Attributes -

A genuine interest in the low carbon economy and sustainability
Well organised and methodical, with very strong attention to detail
Writing technical reports and proposals to required standards
Undertaking site visits of various types of production facilities

Desirable Skills & Attributes -

Knowledge of LCA

We offer –

25 days annual leave & 8 bank holidays
A minimum 5% employee pension contribution matched by employer up to 10%
Life assurance
Company mobile phone & laptop
Good long term progression prospects
Flexible start/end times
Two additional holiday days a year available for low carbon holidays

Interested? Get in touch!

More information about Decerna can be found at www.decerna.co.uk

Interested? Get in touch!

Closing date is 11.59pm 31st March 2024

Interviews to be held during April 2024

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Graduate Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) Consultant