Senior Scientist - Ecotoxicology

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Exponent is the only premium engineering and scientific consulting firm with the depth and breadth of expertise to solve our clients’ most profoundly unique, unprecedented, and urgent challenges. Our vision is to engage multidisciplinary teams of science, engineering, and regulatory experts to empower our clients with solutions that create a safer, healthier, more sustainable world. For over five decades, we’ve connected the lessons of past failures with tomorrow’s solutions to advise clients as they innovate technologically complex products and processes, ensure the safety and health of their users, and address the challenges of sustainability.

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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.

• Conduct environmental risk assessments for plant protection products as required by EU legislation (Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009).
• Provide advice to clients on plant protection product ecotoxicology and environmental risk assessment issues.
• Summarise and interpret data, including study reports and published literature in the area of ecotoxicology, drawing sound scientific and regulatory conclusions.
• Perform data gap analysis, develop testing strategies and monitor ecotoxicology studies.
• Provide verbal and/or written inputs to multi‑disciplinary project teams and contribute to high‑level strategic advice to clients and high‑quality outputs.

• MSc. degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline (e.g., biology, environmental science).
• Experience completing environmental risk assessments under EU plant protection product legislation (e.g., Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009). Applicants must have relevant experience in this field.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Accuracy and attention to detail.
• Strong team‑working skills.
• Sound judgement and decision‑making ability.
• Good numeracy skills.

Applicants are encouraged to submit a CV (Curriculum Vitae) with publications (feel free to include publications that are in review or pending) – not restricted to 1 page.

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