Principal Ecotoxicologist

Location: London, Harwell - Oxford, Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow, Shoreham, Madrid - Spain (Hybrid)
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, you'll 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. We are actively looking for applicants with a range of experience and specialised knowledge to help us strengthen our team. Educated to Master’s degree level or higher in environmental toxicology, chemistry, biology or a related discipline with demonstrable 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., A track record of scientific excellence, including publishing and presenting research, either independently or in collaboration with other partners or institutions.
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 team’s reputation through engagement in scientific research activities.
We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. 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. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. 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; 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.
Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.