Rahul Nallithodi

Current client is a medium-sized apparel company in India. Involved in the development of a sustainability roadmap focusing on identifying and addressing environmental hotspots within their value chain.

Along with conducting LCA's my research centered on the advancement of the Consequential Life Cycle Assessment (CLCA) methodology by testing different methods for identifying the marginal supplier mix of products. I was also involved in developing a global carbon footprint generator hosted by the university.

• Other main tasks involved the identification of marginal suppliers of INDUSTRIAL AND AGRICULTURAL products such as aluminum, steel, soy meal, barley, wheat, vegetable oils, etc.
• Circular economy as a strategy for business

Student assistant for the Life cycle assessment (LCA) course at NTNU.

• Tutoring students in using LCA software and assisting with the exercises
• Helping lecturers organize lectures.

Analyzing and sorting municipal waste samples to different categories of solid waste and measuring from random samples to come up with an average composition of household waste in Trondheim and report the data to Trondheim municipality and COWI (A team effort). Identifying room for improvement in waste management and help the municipality achieve zero emission targets.

Sales Engineer at GMMCO (a Caterpillar Mining machinery dealer in India). I was handling sales and procurement of CAT surface mining machine parts, preparing quotations, and managing the supply chain of machine parts for the erection and maintenance of CAT machines used for coal excavations in India.

• Providing field engineers with machine drawings for erection and maintenance of machines and updating master maintenance data set.
• Analysing the competition preparing bids against tenders.