Job Description

📋 Tasks and responsibilities

Client information

We are striving to meet rising demand for metal-based technologies and recycling, cleaner mobility solutions, and the advanced materials needed for energy, electronics, space exploration, and more. Leveraging decades of expertise in materials science, metallurgy, chemistry, and metals management, we are powering the cars of today and tomorrow, reducing harmful emissions and giving new life to used metals.
Our client is creating materials for a better life.

Department description and responsibilities
The Sustainability and ESG function supports our client’s ambition to deliver transparent, robust and credible product sustainability information across its portfolio. The team is responsible for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Product Carbon Footprints (PCF), methodological governance, customer sustainability support and the rollout of portfolio level product footprint assessments in close collaboration with the Business Units.

Project description
To ensure continuity during a maternity leave period, our client is looking for an experienced LCA Expert who can immediately support ongoing delivery. You will take ownership of LCA and PCF execution, respond to customer sustainability requests, maintain product footprint models and actively engage Business Units in a product portfolio assessment project.
The role requires strong technical autonomy, hands on delivery capability and the ability to operate effectively in a fastpaced, cross functional environment.

Primary Tasks & Responsibilities
LCA & Product Footprint Delivery

- Run, update and interpret Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) and Product Carbon Footprints (PCFs) (cradle to gate and cradle to grave).
- Maintain, update and continuously improve product footprint and LCA models.
- Review, validate and challenge data inputs from production sites, ensuring data quality and methodological consistency.
- Prepare technical documentation, calculation reports and presentations for internal and external use.

Customer & Sustainability Support

- Support customer sustainability and product footprint requests in a timely and accurate manner.
- Contribute to product sustainability assessments across the portfolio.
- Provide methodological guidance on LCA, PCF and related sustainability methodologies.
- Coordinate with external reviewers or critical review panels where required.

Business Unit Engagement & Rollout

- Lead outreach to Business Units to onboard them into a product portfolio assessment project.
- Explain methodology, align on data requirements and ensure consistent implementation across businesses.
- Act as a technical point of contact between Sustainability, Business Units and other internal stakeholders.

Technical profile requirements
Essential

- Strong working knowledge of ISO 14040 / ISO 14044.
- Proven handson experience delivering LCAs,(cradle-to-gate and cradle-to-grave)
- Solid experience with Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) calculations.
- Advanced user of LCA for Experts (formerly GaBi).
- Experience working with LCI databases and performing data quality reviews.

Preferred

- Industry experience in metals, chemicals, batteries, manufacturing and/or recycling.
- Experience supporting or participating in LCA critical reviews.
- Knowledge of PEF (Product Environmental Footprint) methodology.
- Familiarity with battery value chains and critical raw materials.
- Understanding of EU sustainability regulations impacting product claims (e.g. EU Battery Regulation and related delegated acts).
- Broader understanding of product sustainability methodologies.

Non Technical profile requirements

- 5–7 years of relevant professional experience.
- Proven ability to deliver LCAs and PCFs independently with limited supervision.
- Strong stakeholder management skills; comfortable engaging and influencing Business Units.
- Able to manage multiple requests in parallel in a delivery driven environment.
- Consulting profiles are a strong fit given the need for speed, autonomy and adaptability.

Methodology/Certification requirements
- Master’s degree (or equivalent) in a relevant scientific or engineering discipline, such as:

- Environmental Engineering
- Environmental Sciences
- Chemical Engineering
- Materials Science / Metallurgical Engineering
- Industrial Engineering
- Sustainability or Environmental Management (with strong quantitative focus)

Language proficiencies

- English: Fluent

Localisation

- Umciore Brussels
- our client policy onsite presence is 3days/ week

Contract

- Fixed term contract – Maternity leave cover
- Start date: as from september until end of March 2027

💼 Offer

You will be part of a growing Belgian SME where initiative and personal development are encouraged. We will provide you with an enjoyable work environment with fun colleagues. We will work out a career plan with you, with attention and a budget for extra education/certification. You can count on an attractive salary, supplemented with extra-legal benefits, including a company car.
(Freelance is also possible)