TCEQ - Toxicologist

Job Description

Are you an experienced Toxicologist, ready for a unique opportunity to grow with an environmental state agency?

Join TCEQ! We bring passion and drive to carry out our mission of protecting our state's public health and natural resources.

As part of the Executive Director's office, you would support management of the agency's day-to-day operations. See details about what we do.

This position is a member of our Toxicology, Risk Assessment, and Research Division.

• Conduct and/or review the development of effects screening levels in accordance with sound scientific principles and agency guidance.
• Communicate with the public, industry representatives, advocacy groups, agency staff, representatives of governmental agencies, legislative staff, and the academic community; provide expert testimony in legal proceedings such as public hearings; and participate in public meetings.
• Conduct and/or review the health effects reviews of ambient air monitoring data and projects.
• Conduct and/or review the health effects reviews of air permit applications.
• Conduct and/or review advanced risk assessments for site remediation. Develop media-specific cleanup levels and determines adequacy of data collected for use in risk assessments.
• Conduct and/or coordinate advanced toxicological evaluations to determine potential health risks associated with exposure to environmental contaminants, or other special projects, conducted either in-house or by independent contractors.
• Stay abreast of new toxicological data by attending teleconferences, professional conferences, training events, and by reading scientific literature.

• Knowledge of the standard principles and methods of toxicology and of chemical laboratory procedures.
• Skill in the use of computers and applicable software.
• Ability to initiate, plan, develop, interpret, and conduct evaluations of toxicological information to determine the health risks associated with public/environmental exposure to toxic substances; to communicate effectively; to produce and present highly technical reports and studies related to toxicology, to express ideas clearly and concisely, and to address audiences; to assemble, summarize, and interpret pertinent technical literature; to interact with the public and to represent the agency as an expert toxicology witness;
  
  and to work independently to ensure that assessments are consistent with standard principles and methods of toxicology and agency policy.

A Master's degree from an accredited college or university with a major in toxicology, pharmacology, or a closely related field,
plus 2 years full-time experience in toxicology, pharmacology, risk assessment, or a closely-related field.

A Doctorate degree from an accredited college or university with a major in toxicology, pharmacology, or a closely-related field.

Employees in this classification series may research, work on, or have access to critical infrastructure, including but not limited to a communication infrastructure system, cybersecurity system, electric grid, hazardous waste treatment system, or water treatment facility. See Tex. Business & Commerce Code Section 117.001(2). Accordingly, the ability to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure is a requirement to be hired for and to continue to be employed with TCEQ.

See instructions on how to attach documents. A copy of your official college transcript or evaluation of foreign credentials in CAPPS is required if needed to meet the qualifications listed above.

Standard business hours are M-F, 8:00 a.m.

- 5:00 p.m.

Individual and work group schedule determined by the…