Packaging & Product Sustainability Specialist (f/m/d)

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Your role and responsibilities

This is a Global R&D Sustainability position within the Smart Power Division's Center of Excellence for LCA & Eco-design. As a core team member, you'll join a multidisciplinary engineering group specializing in Packaging & Product Sustainability.

This role has a unique structure focusing primarily on Packaging, while also maintaining broader Product expertise. You will drive circularity principles in Packaging design, ensuring regulatory compliance with PPWR mandates, and collaborating with cross-functional teams globally. On the Product sustainability side, you will serve as a subject matter expert for assigned product lines, execute LCA studies and EPDs, drive eco-design principles implementation, and support local sustainability pilots.

You'll interface with key stakeholders across global Competence Centers and Manufacturing Units, championing Sustainability as a competitive advantage.

This role is contributing to the Center of Excellence LCA & Eco-design in Innovation & Common Module Agile Unit, Smart Power Division.

The work model for the role is: hybrid/remote #LI hybrid, #LI remote
Preferred location is Heidelberg, Germany, but we welcome candidates from Italy and Sweden to apply as well.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Developing and harmonizing Packaging Sustainability and Circularity requirements for ABB Smart Power portfolio.
• Ensuring packaging strategies comply with EU Packaging Regulations (PPWR) and emerging legislative requirements.
• Establishing partnerships with local packaging reference persons, suppliers, and external committees supporting pilot projects for sustainable packaging solutions.
• Monitoring regulatory trends in packaging sustainability and provide compliance recommendations.
• Conducting lifecycle assessments LCAs of Products & Packaging materials and processes to identify optimization opportunities.
• Managing EPD projects ensuring compliance and market credibility.
• Driving eco-design implementation and optimize environmental KPIs.
• Supporting Division Sustainability targets through collaboration.

Qualifications for the role

• A bachelor's or higher degree in design, materials or other relevant sciences.
• 2-4+ years of experience in packaging development with focus on sustainability and circular economy principles.
• Knowledge of packaging materials and their environmental impact.
• Experience in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).
• Familiarity with Ecodesign methodologies.
• Familiarity with regulatory compliance in packaging industry.
• Passionate about Circularity and Sustainability topics with an innovative mindset.
• Highly motivated team-player with a collaborative, learning-oriented, and solutions-focused approach.
• Ability to work cross-functionally and interface with global stakeholders.

More about us

ABB Smart Power provides energy distribution solutions for data centers, industrial and manufacturing plants, critical infrastructure and commercial buildings. The Division’s technical teams work closely with industry partners, delivering advanced solutions that support rapid growth, energy transition, and sustainability objectives. The Division’s portfolio includes industrial circuit breakers, low-voltage systems, motor starting applications, and safety devices like switches and relays. Its Power Protection unit supports the world’s largest data center companies with advanced energy-efficient UPS solutions. The Division’s ABB Ability™ Energy Manager provides a scalable, easy-to-use platform that helps organizations save energy and reduce CO2 emissions.

This opportunity is open to candidates in multiple countries, with the final work location determined based on the selected candidate. As compensation may vary by location, we are committed to being transparent throughout the hiring process and will share details of the salary range, variable compensation and benefits package with candidates who progress to the first interview stage for a location in the European Union, covered by the EU Pay Transparency Directive.

The final offer will be tailored based on your role location, experience, skills and qualifications, internal market positioning and alignment with ABB internal standards. 

Building a cleaner, smarter future takes all kinds of minds: the curious, the courageous, and the creative. That's why we welcome people from all backgrounds and experiences.

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