Ecodesign Engineer

Ecodesign Engineer

Eaton is hiring for the role of Ecodesign Engineer!

Responsibilities of the Candidate:

• Eaton’s Center for Sustainability is looking for highly motivated individuals who are passionate about environmental accounting and have a strong inclination toward the Sustainability domain
• The Engineer will be supporting Product Environment profiles (PEP) / Environmental Product declarations (EPDs) through life cycle assessment (LCA) and Design for Environment for New Product Introduction, compliance (climate and environmental regulations) for Eaton’s broad portfolio of electrical products
• This work will help businesses across the enterprise meet customer requests related to Life Cycle Assessment, address regulatory challenges, and create sustainability value propositions to gain additional business opportunities
• Independently execute detailed Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) studies as per ISO 14040 & 14044 to evaluate the environmental impacts of Eaton electrical products followed by 3rd party verification to publish type-III Environmental Product Declarations (EPD)
• Develop modular LCAs & create a library of Eaton standard components & processes
• Evaluate compliance under applicable eco-design-related regulations (e.g. EU-ErP Directive)

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in environmental science or Chemical/Mechanical/ Electronics /Electricals engineering
• Bachelors with 3-5 years experience or Masters with 1-3 years of progressive experience in the areas of Sustainability domain, Product or technology development for Industrial, Electrical/Electronic or Chemical products or process
• Understand customer requirements communicate with other Eaton teams, and act as the liaison for program activities as appropriate
• Provide regular reports on development and support activities
• Support Design-For-Environment activities for new product development projects
• Interact with key customers/stakeholders in understanding current & upcoming sustainability trends and their relevance to our products
• Need to have sound fundamental engineering knowledge
• Has experience in conducting LCA as per the specific rules (ISO14040/44/25). LCA according to PEP-EcoPassport Product Category Rules/ Product Specific Rules will be a bonus
• Demonstrates LCA execution using modeling software like EIME (preferably), SimaPro, Sphera/GaBi, OpenLCA, or any similar software
• Ability to define the goal & scope of the study & work closely with product teams to get the required Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) data