Principal Chemicals Assessor

Overview

Role: Principal Consultant - Chemicals Assessor

Location: UK (Hybrid) & Madrid, Spain (Hybrid)

Role ID:  2023-2064

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world

At Ricardo, we offer an environment where your expertise will thrive, your creativity will flourish, and your contributions will directly impact industries that drive progress and positive change.

Come join our expanding Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology team as a Chemical Assessor. Your role either as a Senior or Principal Consultant, depending on experience, will focus on addressing key challenges in the hazard and risk assessment regulations of chemicals.

In this role, you’ll collaborate with leading experts across Ricardo’s multidisciplinary organisation, and externally with academic, industry and regulatory partners. This role offers a wonderful opportunity to contribute to the safe and sustainable use of chemicals. We are actively looking for applicants with various levels of experience and specialised knowledge to help us strengthen our team. We welcome your unique expertise and perspective. Join us in making a positive impact.

This role is a hybrid position as the candidate would be expected to commute to one of our UK offices (if based in the UK) or our Madrid office (if based in Madrid).

We encourage you to apply for this this role if you have the following:

• Educated to Master’s degree level or higher in environmental toxicology, chemistry, biology or a related discipline with a minimum of five years’ post-graduate experience.
• Experience with hazard and risk assessment of chemicals in an EU regulatory context (e.g., REACH, BPR, PPP, etc).
• A track record of scientific excellence, including publishing and presenting research, either independently or in collaboration with other partners or institutes.
• Specialist expertise in specific technical areas or classes of chemicals.
• Ability to communicate complex information to different audiences.

Your role will involve:

• Delivering technical excellence in hazard and risk assessment of chemicals for Ricardo clients.
• Managing the delivery of projects, providing support and oversight for junior staff.
• Enhancing the Ricardo ECT team’s reputation through engagement in scientific research activities.
• Providing input and support to strategy and business development activities.

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on.  Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Work life balance

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Benefits

Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.

Next Steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer - please advise the recruitment team via recruit.ee@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.