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Research & Innovation 10/10/2024

Internship – Junior Sustainable Process Engineer (M/W)

Job family : Research & Innovation | Position : Research & Innovation | Area : France | Region : Saint Fons | Contract : Traineeship |

Key responsabilities

Adisseo (Ex-Rhône Poulenc and Aventis Nutrition Animale), a subsidiary of China’s leading chemical group SINOCHEM), is one of the world’s leading animal nutrition companies (CA 2023: 1,7 billion euros, 2700 people, based in more than 100 countries).
Adisseo designs, produces, and distributes products and services for the feed industry.
Adisseo Ambition is to establish Sustainable Development at the heart of Adisseo Strategy in order to build a sustainable future for the group.

MISSION

The Sustainable Process Engineer will be part of the engineering team and will participate on the two
following topics related to Adisseo sustainability roadmap:

  • In collaboration with the Sustainability central team and the business units, with the support of the
    Adisseo LCA leader, she/he will develop and implement the LCA program. The plan covers the development of relevant content using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology to highlight the
    impacts of Adisseo solutions on the feed chain in a worldwide context.
  • In collaboration with the Engineering team and Industrial Representatives, she/he will develop and implement decarbonization roadmap of the industrial plants worldwide (existing and future). The roadmap shall meet the Adisseo targets on Green House Gases (GHG) emissions (scopes 1&2) and shall comply with customers demand regarding the reduction of product carbon footprint (LCA).

 

MAIN RESPONSABILITIES

Within the Adisseo Research & Innovation team, the Sustainable Process engineer works on the following activities :

  • LCA (with support of LCA leader)
    • LCA and environmental data processing and analysis: the Sustainable Process engineer carries out Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) of some Adisseo products to develop reports to be communicated to our stakeholders. She/He also consolidates, processes and analyzes environemental data at product, plant, country or business unit level.
    • Eco-innovation: she/he will able to participate in eco-innovation projects in collaboration with Marketing, R&I and Purchasing.
    • Sustainable development roadmaps, with a focus on CO2, Scope 3 and LCA roadmaps: The Sustainable Process engineer contributes to the implementation of CO2 roadmaps in the different Business Units by providing calculation tools and data for the assessment of scope 3 emissions and the achievement of LCA objectives.
    • Knowledge sharing: She / He contributes to knowledge sharing and increasing the level of empowerment on LCA at Adisseo

 

  • Industrial decarbonization roadmap (with support of Process Engineer Leader)
    • Existing plants / products: The sustainable process engineer will identify the main contributors to GHG emissions (scopes 1&2&3) and find new technologies reducing them. She / He will contact suppliers to realize feasibility studies that will be presented to Industrial Directors for decision. She / He will propose a global decarbonization roadmap per plants or per products, according to the Adisseo sustainability targets and cystomers’ requests.
    • For Future projects: By using LCA tool, she / he will identif the hotspots and propose mitigation action to be implement during the engineering studies
    • Technological monitoring: The Sustaibable Process engineer will carry out a technological monitoring focused on decarbonization, to keep up to date with the latest technologies available. She / He will participate on webinars / seminars and will share internally with R&I

 

SCOPE

Geography : Europe / China

Functionnal : All Adisseo portfolio. Scope can evaluate based on the BU needs

 

INTERNAL / EXTERNAL RELATIONS

Internal

  • Headquarter SD team
  • Strategic Business Units
  • Engineering team
  • Industrial Representatives
  • Operational team
  • Plants
  • Purchasing

External

  • LCA expert company
  • Raw material suppliers
  • Suppliers of new technologies

 

TERMS 

  • Intership in Lyon (Saint Fons) in the Adisseo Research center with some trips to Paris and Europe
  • Intership for a period of 6 months
  • Start in the company from January / February 2025

Main Skills

  • Graduating with a Master’s degree in process engineering, you justify a first approach (including shool work, intership or work-study program) with a practice of engineering or Life Cycle Assessment
  • You have an appetite and skills for data processing and analysis and can simultaneously manage a wide variety of files and projects
  • You are aware of sustainable development, with a strong desire to reduce GHG missions
  • Since you will be interacting with many differents teams and companies all over the world, your communication skills and a good level of English and French are required
  • To succeed in this role, you must be organized, innovative, result-oriented, and customer-oriented

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