Job Description

The ecoinvent Association is looking for an ambitious data analyst with a passion for sustainability, life cycle assessment and waste management to maintain and strengthen ecoinvent's data offering. The successful candidate will work both independently and in teams, interact with users and data providers of the ecoinvent database in the waste sector.

Your Responsibilities:

Contribute to intellectually challenging projects, in a respectful and stimulating environment both independently and in teams. Interaction with users and data providers of the ecoinvent database. Involvement, as a technical support in various projects aimed at improving and developing the database, related to its core structure or the expansion of its coverage. This includes creating and/or incorporating new data as well as developing and improving underlying models. Further interaction with external stakeholders, such as data providers, to guide them through the data preparation and submission process. Provide technical support to users of the ecoinvent database.

Your Qualifications:

Master's degree in environmental engineering, sciences, natural science, or a related field. Experience or/and knowledge of waste treatment technologies is a strong advantage (examples: incineration, landfilling, recycling, anaerobic digestion, composting etc). Experience in Life Cycle Assessment and its systems (Brightway, SimaPro), either practical or theoretical and knowledge around our ecoinvent database. Well-versed in Excel operations and Python programming.

Why ecoinvent?

As a fast-growing team based in Zurich with over twenty nationalities, we embrace diversity and promote a collaborative and adventurous mindset. We are committed to building an inspiring work culture that nurtures creative thinking, transparency, and reliability.


Our benefits include flexible and hybrid work, employee professional growth plans, and our most vital asset: our community. We value transparency, flexibility, and a diverse working environment that encourages learning and continuous improvement. Collaboration is at the heart of what we do. Join us and make an impact.

Our Mission

ecoinvent is an internationally active, mission-driven organization devoted to supporting high-quality, science-based environmental assessments. Its activities include publishing and maintaining the ecoinvent database--a comprehensive life cycle inventory database that provides reliable and transparent information on the environmental impacts of various products and services. It is used by companies, researchers, and policymakers to analyze the environmental impacts of their operations and make informed decisions.