Technical Lead, Engineered Carbon Solutions
South Pole is an energetic, global company offering comprehensive sustainability solutions and services. With offices spanning all continents across the globe, we strive to create a sustainable society and economy that positively impacts our climate, ecosystems and developing communities. With our solutions, we inspire and enable our customers to create value from sustainability-related activities.
Job summary:
South Pole is looking for a Technical Lead to strengthen its team in Europe and to play a key role in international consultancy assignments, proposals, commercial activities, and multistakeholder initiatives.
Main tasks & responsibilities:
- As a global sustainability solutions provider, South Pole works with clients in public and private spaces to build solutions for a sustainable society and economy.
- The Policy and Strategy team works on public and private consultancy assignments for clients.
- It provides policy and technology insights and market intelligence to various teams within the business lines.
- Your goal as Technical Lead, Engineered Carbon Solutions will be to help deliver and refine South Pole’s offering by providing technical advice on engineered carbon removal and reduction projects.
- You will coordinate across relevant teams within South Pole and related institutions to provide best-in-class support for carbon removal and technical advisory mandates, and technical opinions on internal project assessments for due diligence purposes.
- You will act as a core member of the Engineered Carbon Solutions team within South Pole, providing technical insight to assess the viability of engineered carbon reduction and carbon removal projects, and supporting project management and assessment of prospective projects for South Pole or NextGen operations.
- Specifically, you will be able to speak to the technical feasibility of each project and identify potential risks that may undermine reduction/removal performance, assess the level rigour and viability of the proposed mitigation impact quantification methodology and the extent to which it is aligned with existing carbon standard reduction and removal methodologies.
- You will engage with South Pole Carbon Standard and Methodology experts to discuss how to further develop such a quantification approach to bring it in line with carbon crediting standard requirements.
Requirements:
The selected candidate will be expected to have a broad range of engineering knowledge, particularly in relation to technologies and solutions used to capture and permanently store CO2 from different sources, such as but not limited to: biochar, bioenergy with capture and storage, direct air capture, enhanced weathering and permanent CO2 mineralisation in durable products.
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Work-life balance
From flexible working hours to flexible workplace (home office), with above-average vacation allowances, we strive to make the work and family life puzzle an easy one for our employees.
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Flexible Vacation Benefits
Options to buy up to 5 extra days of time off.
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Life Insurance
Available to all employees across the world.
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Care for your Wellbeing
Access to mental, physical and financial wellbeing support through our Employee Assistance Program (TELUS Health).
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Parental leave
Should any of our employees need to take time off the Iceberg as a result of a new addition to their household, we are happy to be able to offer competitive Paid Parental leave to support them during this time.
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Compassionate Leave
Sometimes life is unpredictable, and when unfortunate events occur, we want to give you peace of mind so you feel fully supported during this time.
What makes us unique
At South Pole, we are first and foremost a purpose-driven Company. People join us because they believe in our mission and want to be part of a community that fights together for our shared values and beliefs. But that is not the only reason why working at South Pole is such a rewarding experience.
- We know that our vision to help create a greener world is both bold and challenging. To achieve it, we settle for nothing less than the absolute best. We form a Community that is stronger than the sum of its parts.
- Entrepreneurial at heart. It’s not just our founders who are entrepreneurs. We actively promote an innovative mindset at all levels of the organisation, where each and every employee is encouraged to challenge the status quo and empowered to make decisions.
- Growing employees in a growing company. With a team of smart, passionate and engaged colleagues, as well as increasing demand from our clients, opportunities to learn, develop our skills and grow our careers are endless.
- All for one, and one for all! Above all other things, what truly drives our dedication and commitment to our purpose is our colleagues. We learn from each other and grow together. Because that is who Penguins are.
About South Pole
Our story began in Zurich, with 5 friends* in 2002. They had a belief and a vision to shape and change the future of the world through climate empowerment, education and projects with their non-profit organisation; MyClimate. These ‘social entrepreneurs’ went on to pioneer climate change with the introduction of South Pole in 2006*. More than 20 years on, with the support of some of the most passionate and talented entrepreneurs around them, who are empowered to all play their part and with their founding belief in aligning purpose with passion, people and profit, they have created South Pole, an organisation that has gone onto positively impact the lives of over 20 million people across the world through its projects, saving over 20,000 km2 of forests from deforestation.
*Patrick Bürgi, Thomas Camerata, Renat Heuberger, Ingo Puhl, and Christoph Sutter
*2006 Joined by Marco Hirsbrunner and Christoph Grobel
Technical Lead, Engineered Carbon Solutions
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