Senior Consultant. Ecotoxicologist
Senior Consultant. Ecotoxicologist
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Role: Senior Consultant - Ecotoxicologist
Location: Spain Madrid - Hybrid
Role ID: 2025-2881
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 3000 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 are looking for an experienced technical consultant to join our Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology Team (ECT) to join our team. The ECT team plays a crucial role supporting chemical regulatory and policy teams specialising in ecotoxicology chemical persistence environmental fate and risk assessment providing world-class expertise.
In this role youll collaborate with experts from various fields within Ricardo and work with academic industry and regulatory partners. Your contributions will help both public and private sector customers in promoting the safe and sustainable use of chemicals. Its an exciting opportunity for a motivated individual to make a meaningful impact.
We are actively looking for applicants with a range 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:
- Educated to Masters degree level or higher in environmental toxicology chemistry biology or a related discipline with demonstrable post-graduate experience.
- 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 a bonus.
- Able to manage ones own workload but also work collaboratively and effectively within a team.
- Influencing and the ability to communicate complex information to different audiences.
- Able to build meaningful relationships with clients alongside the ability to develop a personal brand in support of the growth of our environmental toxicology function.
- Consultancy experience preferred but not essential.
The 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 teams 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. Were 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.
Diversity Equality and Inclusion statement
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer we believe in each persons potential and well 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 viaif you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
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