Ranked as one of the most innovative companies in the world, KONE is a global leader in elevator and escalator business. Every day, millions of people use our elevators and escalators across the world. Our objective is to be a leader in sustainability – not only in our own industry, but also beyond. We have improved the flow of urban life for more than 110 years, and we want to share our expertise to help our customers in making cities smart, sustainable, and better places to live.
Sustainability CoE (Center of Excellence) Engineer
Role & Responsibilities
The Sustainability CoE Engineer delivers sustainability support to sales and engineering teams to meet customer requirements. Typical requests concern energy and carbon calculations of KONE solutions, material and green building compliance of KONE solutions, but they can also focus on social sustainability, our supplier network or multiple other topics within the sustainability domain. As a CoE engineer, you will also be responsible to deliver trainings and coach local sales and engineering teams in sustainability, including participation in customer meetings. In addition, you will be responsible to develop processes, services and tools that help us deliver sustainability support effectively to our customers.
1) Provide sustainability support for sales teams and customer projects to ensure KONE solutions meet customers’ sustainability requirements (requirements set for suppliers, green building requirements, carbon targets etc.) and ensure compliance with relevant standards.
2) Participate in customer meetings to support sales teams with sustainability expertise.
3) Deliver training and coaching to local sales and engineering teams on sustainability topics.
4) Develop processes, services, and tools to enhance sustainability support to customers.
5) Gather sustainability insights, customer feedback, service delivery data and industry best practices for continuous service development and product development.
6) Support GCN Sustainability SharePoint site and website set up: Create and maintain GCN Sustainability Toolbox for customer projects site to provide sales teams and engineers all materials related to sustainability engineering support and calculation.
7) Act as the primary point of contact for sustainability engineering related inquiries.
8) Support local marketing team to create and maintain sustainability promotion materials with sustainability contents (videos, e-brochures, energy calculation mini-programs, etc.).
9) Support GCN Cut Carbon strategy execution.
10) Other work assigned by manager.
