Global Manager LCA & EPD

Join us at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin): Where purpose comes to life.

You’re purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Welcome to Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, where our purpose ‘to advance life around the world’ drives our entire global team.

Every day, we are thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges impacting the world. Whether it’s facilitating clean drinking water for communities, creating climate resilient cities, or designing more comfortable living spaces, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better.

Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we work for. How about you?

At Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin), we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments. And where is our help most needed? The places we live in: cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater. It’s time to join our team and help build more sustainable environments!

We are currently looking for an Global Manager LCA & EPD to join us at Schiphol, the Netherlands, Wavin Nederland B.V., an Orbia business. If you want to make a difference and work for a purpose-led company, please read on.

Main purpose

Orbia B&I is uniquely positioned to help our customers address water & energy challenges, by offering sustainable customer solutions for water supply, sanitation, climate-resilient cities & better building performance. Sustainability is an integral part of our commercial proposition and embedded in our value chain. Through our extensive LCA (Life Cycle Analysis) & EPD (Environmental Product Declaration) program Orbia B&I is offering customers transparency and insight into the environmental impact of their construction projects, enabling building designers, planners, contractors and developers to choose more sustainable products and solutions. As Global Manager LCA & EPD you are responsible for creating and maintaining the creation of LCA and EPDs for the full product range of Orbia B&I. You will guide customers and also internal stakeholders through the subject of LCAs & EPDs and support them on opportunities and improvements identified.

Main responsibilities:

• Conduct the creation of LCAs and manage the verification and publication of EPDs of B&I full product range
• Manage and operate the third party LCA software.
• Coordinate with operations, supply chain, and procurement to collect the relevant environmental data
• Develop a maintenance/update plan (how to make new EPDs/keep existing ones up to date)
• Interpret results and define improvement projects with procurement, logistics, operations and product management.
• Act as key point of contact for all LCA and EPD related questions throughout the organization.
• Guide the various stakeholders through the subject of LCAs, EPDs and support them on opportunities and improvements identified via the calculations
• Educate and train the commercial teams on the value of LCA & EPD in customer propositions.
• Monitoring market and regulatory trends on LCA and EPDs.