Senior LCA Practitioner, Product Sustainability Engineer

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bachelors 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.
~ 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.
~ 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.
A global leader in applied safety science, UL Solutions (NYSE: ULS) transforms safety, security and sustainability challenges into opportunities for customers in more than 110 countries. UL Solutions delivers testing, inspection and certification services, together with software products and advisory offerings, that support our customers' product innovation and business growth. The UL Mark serves as a recognized symbol of trust in our customers' products and reflects an unwavering commitment to advancing our safety mission. We help our customers innovate, launch new products and services, navigate global markets and complex supply chains, and grow sustainably and responsibly into the future. Our science is your advantage.