Senior Toxicologist

Role: Senior Toxicologist

Location: United Kingdom e.g London, Oxford, Manchester, Bristol, Glasgow - Flexible/Hybrid Working

Role ID: 2024-2217

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

Role Purpose

We have a unique opportunity for an experienced toxicologist to support delivery on scientific and regulatory projects and to help drive future growth in this area. As part of the Ricardo Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology (ECT) team, you will address key challenges in the hazard and risk assessment of chemicals. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with leading experts across Ricardo’s multidisciplinary organisation, and externally with academic, industry and regulatory partners. This is a fantastic opportunity for a dynamic and motivated individual to make a real contribution toward the safe and sustainable use of chemicals.

Key Responsibilities

* Delivering technical excellence in hazard and risk assessment of chemicals for Ricardo clients.
* Lead the contribution of toxicology expertise to the successful delivery of projects, providing support and oversight for junior staff.
* Team leadership responsibility for a number of 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 toxicology, molecular biology or other related biological discipline with evidence of relevant post-graduate experience.
* Demonstrable technical knowledge in toxicology and risk assessment in the regulatory context. Deep expertise in one or more specific areas (e.g. carcinogenicity, reproductive toxicity, endocrine disruption) or emergent New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) would be a distinct advantage.
* 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 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.