Toxicologist; m​/f​/d

Position: Toxicologist (m/f/d)
Sasol is a global integrated chemicals and energy company with a 75-year heritage. Through our talented people, we use our expertise and selected technologies to safely and sustainably source, manufacture and market chemical and energy products globally. When you join Team Sasol, you are joining a company that puts people at the center of everything we do.

Sasol invests in its employees along every stage of the career path and offers development opportunities to help you cultivate your career in a culture that embraces diversity and inclusion.

Purpose of the Job
As part of Sasol International Chemicals’ Product Safety function, you help to secure the long-term marketability of Sasol’s products with adherence to Product Stewardship and Corporate principles. You support the fulfilment of regulatory requirements, the maintenance and updating of toxicological information, and the characterisation of new and existing products with respect to their risk using information about hazards to human health and reasonably foreseeable exposures.

Key Accountabilities

Providing assistance in ensuring that the products of Sasol Chemicals, in accordance with Sasol’s strategy and objectives, can be produced, utilised and marketed without posing any risk to humans and the environment

Conducting hazard assessments for Sasol Chemicals products

Assessing the risk to humans and the environment in connection with the development, production, marketing, utilisation and disposal of Sasol’s products and, if any potential risks are identified, developing strategies to mitigate such risks

Initiating and monitoring toxicological studies on Sasol Chemicals products

Monitoring health effects information and related regulatory developments, trends, and evaluating their impact on Sasol Chemicals products

Coordinating the utilization of outside consulting services for global Product Safety projects such as product registrations and submissions

Providing assistance in ensuring and implementing the general framework for safe production and marketing of Sasol Chemicals products, taking health, safety and environmental aspects as key criteria into account

Participating in refining, revising and maintaining an emergency system to ensure efficient internal and external (regulators & public) short-term hazard and risk communication based on substance-specific hazard information in case of unintended emissions to the environment

Representing Sasol Chemicals in registration and testing consortia (e.g. REACH), ensuring that Sasol’s interests are considered

Co-operating in the planning and implementation of strategies aimed at ensuring sustained marketability of Sasol Chemicals products in the event of changes in the environmental and regulatory framework

Preparing and exchanging information with toxicology and eco-toxicology experts from academia, government agencies, customers and industry in order to assess the inherent properties of substances with the overall aim of securing Sasol’s market position in accordance with the principles of "Responsible Care"

Representing Sasol’s interests in national and international industrial associations as well as science, government and industry committees to achieve divisional as well as overall company objectives

Monitoring, communicating, coordinating responses and providing technical assistance to internal and external Sasol Chemicals customers on Product Safety and Occupational Health

Actively participates in multifunctional teams to ensure fulfilment of Sasol Chemicals requirements with regard to international chemicals regulation (e.g. REACH)

Providing advice to the Production, Market Development, Marketing, Sales (global), R&D, SHERQ and Logistics divisions for the purpose of information, ensuring…