Sustainable Solutions Corporation

Senior Project Consultant – LCA Team Lead

Sustainable Solutions Corporation

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Lead and manage a team of LCA practitioners and sustainability consultants, providing guidance, mentorship, and performance feedback.
  • Develop recommendations tailored to client needs to aid reductions in environmental impacts.
  • Oversee the execution of multiple, concurrent sustainability consulting projects from initiation to delivery.
  • Ensure high-quality deliverables are completed on schedule and within scope and budget.
  • Serve as the point of contact for key clients; build and maintain strong, long-term relationships.
  • Collaborate with clients to understand their sustainability goals and deliver actionable insights through LCA and related assessments.
  • Work with client services to identify key strategic needs to support client sustainability strategies.
  • Support technical work, including LCI development, LCA modeling, LCA reporting and quality assurance.
  • Review and refine project methodologies to ensure consistency with best practices and emerging standards.
  • Manage project timelines, delegate tasks, and provide technical oversight to ensure accuracy and alignment with client objectives.
  • Tackle complex, ambiguous sustainability challenges by forming testable hypotheses, analyzing life-cycle and operational data, piloting interventions, and scaling what works—delivering clear, measurable results.
  • Build and maintain clean workflows and project plans—prioritize backlogs, manage dependencies, document decisions, and keep stakeholders aligned to deliver on time with proactive, clear communication.
  • Facilitate cross-functional collaboration within the organization and with external stakeholders.
  • Mentor a high-performing team and build trusted client partnerships.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical engineering, Chemical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • Minimum of 5+ years of professional experience in sustainability consulting, LCA or relevant experience.
  • 2+ years people management experience.
  • Extensive experience conducting Life Cycle Assessments using tools such as SimaPro, Sphera's LCA for Experts (GaBi), or equivalent.
  • Experience with LCA methods including ISO 14040, ISO 14044, ISO 21930, EN15804, ISO 14067.
  • Strong Excel skills, including the ability to analyze and visualize complex data.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines effectively.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
  • Ability to work collaboratively across departments and manage stakeholder expectations.
  • LCACP certification or training (preferred).
  • EPD development experience (preferred).
  • Experience in other sustainability services such as carbon footprinting, waste diversion, LCA/EPD training or circular economy strategies (preferred).