Environmental Specialist

Role & responsibilities

We are now looking for an Environmental Specialist, Sustainability to join R&D Sustainability team at KONE R&D in Chennai, India.

R&D Sustainability team is responsible for ensuring KONE solutions meet the ever-tightening global environmental legislation as well as green building related customer requirements. We work to show that our solutions are made from safe and durable, sustainable materials which contribute to several major green building rating schemes. We are also driving KONEs scope 3 emissions reductions.

Environmental Specialist is responsible for guiding new R&D projects to select materials into use that meet the requirements as well as analyzing data and ensuring selected materials meet the requirements from customers, corporate and legislation. Environmental Specialist is also leading the work in compiling life cycle assessments and supporting energy efficiency measurements both at KONE test facilities and at customer sites.

To be successful in this position, you will

Collect materials/chemicals information from supplier base and KONE factories and have an ability to explain why the information is needed (ability to train suppliers when needed) Support suppliers and KONE factories to gain relevant material compliance documentation Analyze and validate data received from KONE suppliers for different declarations and certifications purposes Cooperate & engage with global teams to work on material management to support Environmental Product Declaration creation related work Collect and review life cycle inventories for EN15804 compliant Environmental Product Declarations Participate actively in the product development of KONE contributing to long term Science Based targets regarding scope 3 emissions reduction Support KTI project development activities to ensure material compliance Be fluent in both written and verbal English Have great co-operation and networking skills

Previous knowledge or experience of green building ratings schemes, creating Environmental Product Declarations and understanding requirements of the EU REACH and RoHS is considered a great asset.

Skills, Education and Experience

- Bachelor or Master’s degree in Material/Chemical or Environmental engineering

- Previous experience and understanding of EN15804, ISO 14025, 14040 & 25745 standards

- Previous experience and understanding the European SCIP legislation

- Great MS Excel -skills

- Previous experience of Software tools for generating environmental product declarations is a great asset

- Work experience or studies on globally recognized green building rating schemes and European legislation (e.g REACH, RoHS) is considered an asset

- Any experience in environmental design, carbon footprint calculations & environmental lifecycle analysis is a great plus

- Passion for great service / customer experience

- Fluent in both written and verbal English

- Coding experience for large MS Excel files is an asset, e.g. VBA, Python, etc.