PRIORITISE
REGENERATIVE RESOURCES
Ensure renewable, reusable, non-toxic resources are utilised as materials andenergy in an efficient way.
Agronomic advisors support healthy soil nourishment with organic fertiliser from composted manure and crop remnants. They combine strong interpersonal skills with ecological knowledge.
STRETCH
THE LIFETIME
While resources are in-use, maintain, repair and upgrade them to maximise their lifetime and give them a second life through take back strategies whenapplicable.
Repair technicians repair appliances, machines or vehicles. They possess strong technical and manual skills which can be acquired through a formal and informal education and training.
USE WASTE
AS A RESOURCE
Utilise waste streams as a source of secondary resources and recover waste for reuse and recycling.
Process operators sort waste for sellable products, for example to produce livestock feed made from waste flows. Although classed as practical-skill work, knowledge of the quality of incoming raw materials is crucial.
Enabling circular jobs
DESIGN
FOR THE FUTURE
Adopt a systemic perspective during the design process, to employ the right materials for appropriate lifetime and extended future use.
Circular equipment engineers design products to enable parts and resource recovery after the product’s use phase. They excel in complex problem solving on a technical level designs for the future.
RETHINK
THE BUSINESS MODEL
Consider opportunities to create greater value and align incentives through business models that build on the interaction between products and services.
Demand planners oversee supplyand demand to make refurbishment a profitable business model. This role requires logical thinking and reasoning.
INCORPORATE
DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY
Track and optimise resource use and strengthen connections between supply-chain actors through digital, online platforms and technologies.
Building information managers maintain data on construction components so as to keep track of these physical assets. Theyunderstand how to integrate and interpret virtual information management systems.
TEAM UP
TO CREATE JOINT VALUE
Work together throughout the supply chain, internally within the organisation and with the public sector to increase transparency and create shared value.
Procurement professionals stimulate the demand for secondary materialsand discern and connect new suppliers in order to do so. This profile points to the need for entrepreneurial, interpersonal skills.
STRENGTHEN AND ADVANCE
KNOWLEDGE
Develop research, structure knowledge, encourage innovation networks and disseminate findings with integrity.
Teachers transfer knowledge and skills to the current and future workforce so as to equip workers with skills for circular economy strategies.
Examples of indirectly circular jobs:
- The courier, who uses and maintains a fleet of second hand bikes to bring packages to and from consumers as part of a reverse logistics scheme;
- The bank, which uses repair services to maintain the electrical equipment used in its day to day operations;
- The farmer, who utilises renewable energy in the production of their agricultural products.