REACH Consultant

Role: Consultant (REACH / CLP)

Location: UK Flexible – Manchester – London (Hybrid / Partial Remote)

Role ID: 2024-2206

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 growing Chemical Risk team as a REACH / CLP Consultant. As a part of our team, you'll play a key role in supporting our REACH and CLP consultancy work in both the European Union and the UK.

You’re a great fit for this role if you have:

* Knowledge and experience across REACH and CLP.
* Strong customer service ethos.
* Commercial awareness.

In this position, you'll have the chance to collaborate with experts from various fields within Ricardo. You'll also work closely with academic, industry, and regulatory partners. Additionally, you'll have the opportunity to assist a diverse group of customers from the public and private sectors.

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.

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

* A Bachelors degree or higher in Chemistry, Environmental Science, Life Sciences or a related field.
* Technical knowledge of REACH and CLP regulations and the obligations they place upon companies.
* Working knowledge of UK REACH and UK CLP regulations as they are emerging.
* Experience working with IUCLID 6 to create REACH inquiry and registration dossiers.
* Experience contacting lead registrants and creating and submitting joint registration dossiers.
* Ability to communicate complex information to a variety of people.

In this role the successful candidate will:

* Undertake a range of technical work related to REACH.
* Work with clients to obtain data for inclusion into REACH inquiry and registration dossiers.
* Receive training to grow your REACH knowledge.
* Share your knowledge with team members to enhance their understanding of REACH and its application to clients.
* Grow your understanding of the global regulatory landscape and being an expert in this field.
* Develop strong project and customer management skills to proactively manage clients, ensuring exceptional service and repeat business.

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

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.

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

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 if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.