Our Opportunity
We are currently seeking a Ecotoxicologist for our Chemical Regulation and Food Safety Practice in Harrogate (UK), Nottingham (UK), London (UK), Dublin (IE), Mannheim (DE) or Basel (SW) offices; homeworking will also be considered.
You will be responsible for
- Conducting environmental risk assessments for plant protection products as required by EU legislation (Regulation (EC) No 1107 / 2009)
- Providing advice to clients on plant protection product ecotoxicology / environmental risk assessment issues
- Summarising and interpreting data, including study reports and published literature in the area of ecotoxicology, drawing sound scientific and regulatory conclusions
- Data gap analysis, developing testing strategies and monitoring ecotoxicology studies
- Providing verbal and / or written inputs to multi-disciplinary project teams and contributing to providing high level strategic advice to clients and high-quality outputs
You will have the following skills and qualifications
MSc. degree or equivalent in relevant discipline (. biology, environmental science)Experience of completing environmental risk assessments under EU plant protection product legislation (. Regulation (EC) No 1107 / 2009).