Principal Ecotoxicologist

Overview

Role: Principal Ecotoxicologist

Location: Various

Salary range: Commensurate with experience

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world

At Ricardo, we believe in fostering an environment where you can thrive and make a meaningful impact. We are committed to empowering our employees, providing opportunities for growth and professional development as well as cultivating a supportive and inclusive work environment.

A critical part of our vision is to provide our customers with the digital tools and products that empower them to make positive and meaningful change to become more sustainable and protect our environment.

Ricardo has a very successful chemical safety and regulatory business area, and we are looking for an technically experienced technical and delivery consultant to support our Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology Team (ECT).

This team provides a great range of support to our chemical regulatory and policy teams, as well as operating cross-business to provide world leading expertise in ecotoxicology, chemical persistence, environmental fate, and risk assessment.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with leading experts across Ricardo’s multidisciplinary organisation, and externally with academic, industry and regulatory partners, as well as support a wide range of public and private sector customers. This is a fantastic opportunity for a dynamic and motivated individual to make a real contribution toward the safe and sustainable use of chemicals.

We are a fast-growing team and are interested in hearing from applicants with a range of experience and specialist expertise to enhance our capabilities.

Key responsibilities

• 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.
• Team leadership responsibility for several direct reports, enabling growth, development and engagement across the team.
• Enhancing the Ricardo ECT team’s reputation through engagement in scientific research activities.
• Providing input and support to strategy and business development activities.

Key competencies and experience

• 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.
• Extensive technical knowledge across ecotoxicology, environmental fate, exposure assessment, toxicity prediction and modelling, data analysis and statistics, analytical methods, scientific writing.
• Hazard and risk assessment of chemicals in an EU regulatory context (e.g., REACH, BPR, WFD etc).
• A track record of scientific excellence, including publishing and presenting research, either independently or in collaboration with other partners or institutions.

Skills and behaviours

• Dynamic, highly motivated, and productive individual.
• Passionate about assessing and managing chemicals, and eager to make an impact in this area.
• Able to manage one’s own workload but also work collaboratively and effectively within a team.
• Influencing and the ability to communicate complex information to different audiences.

Working with Ricardo

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

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health.

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.