Associate Director – Life Cycle Assessment

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Oversee intricate LCA engagements from methodology and approach to final delivery, ensuring technical precision, well-founded assumptions, and compliance with international standards and industry frameworks.

• Develop inventive LCA methodologies for emerging and complex scenarios, including advanced technologies, circular systems, service-oriented models, and shifting value chains.

• Convert LCA findings and environmental impacts into actionable recommendations for C-suite executives, product leaders, manufacturing, and sustainability professionals.

• Serve as a reliable technical advisor to clients by questioning assumptions, framing problems, and designing customized strategies.

• Provide technical leadership and ensure quality across projects by reviewing models and deliverables utilizing SimaPro, OpenLCA, and Excel.

• Lead and cultivate project teams, prioritize tasks, delegate responsibilities, mentor junior staff, and enhance LCA capabilities.

• Support business development through client discussions, proposal submissions, RFP responses, and identifying opportunities to broaden Anthesis’ LCA services.

• Engage in thought leadership, develop new methodologies, drive automation, enable LCA at scale, and promote sustainable product design and technology-driven sustainability transformation.

• Represent Anthesis at conferences, industry events, and various forums.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 7 years of practical LCA experience across diverse sectors, including leading complex assessments.

• Bachelor's degree in Materials Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

• Proficient in SimaPro, OpenLCA, and Excel.

• In-depth knowledge of ISO 14040/14044, ISO 14067, GHG Protocol Product Standard, PEF, PCRs, EPD-related EN standards, and pertinent industry-specific frameworks.

• Familiarity with GHG inventories and corporate carbon footprinting.

• Experience in applying LCA to complex or evolving contexts, such as circular systems, innovative technologies, service models, or changing value chains.

• Strong comprehension of system boundaries, feedstocks, data quality, assumptions, and methodological decisions.

• Capability to work with incomplete or flawed information and create defensible strategies using sound technical judgment.

• Excellent client-facing and communication skills suitable for both technical and executive audiences.

• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple complex projects, juggle competing priorities, and uphold high-quality standards in delivery.

• Experience in mentoring and developing team members while providing technical guidance.

• A commercial mindset with confidence in contributing to business development, proposals, and client interactions.

• Experience in technology sectors such as semiconductors, digital services, AI, cloud infrastructure, or technology-sector footprinting is advantageous.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive and competitive health, dental, and vision insurance plans for you and your dependents.

• FSA (Flexible Spending Account) benefit (US only).

• 100% coverage for Basic and Voluntary Life Insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance.

• Full coverage for Short & Long-Term Disability Insurance benefits.

• 3% contribution to retirement plans, with the option to increase contributions each pay period through pre-tax deductions up to a specified cap.

• Access to the Employee Assistance Program and Travel Insurance.

• Annual PTO allocation.

• 56 hours of sick leave.

• Paid company holidays.

• Collaborate within a motivated team in a dynamic and rapidly growing global company.

• Opportunity to influence the growth and development of Anthesis' LCA Center of Excellence.

• Work together on projects that significantly impact clients' sustainability, circularity, and climate objectives.

• Chance to collaborate with and learn from sustainability Subject Matter Experts (SMEs).