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Lead Toxicologist, Product Safety and Toxicology
The Product Stewardship organization has employees located in all regions of the world. The organizational mission of the Product Stewardship program is to ensure safe, compliant and sustainable solutions throughout the product's life cycle.
JOB PURPOSE:
The purpose of the toxicologist position is to apply toxicological expertise and lead research and scientific evaluations for products and raw materials, application of toxicological and risk assessment principles to ensure safe and sustainable products, and to advise on hazard communications for employees and customers. In addition, the toxicology position requires the incumbent to monitor and communicate new and emerging issues in the field of toxicology that have SABIC business impact. The role contributes to the development of a SABIC Product Stewardship culture through engagement and facilitation of SABIC product compliance with Product Stewardship policies, standards, and strategy.
Main Responsibilities:
- Provide technical advice and critical interpretation of toxicological data relative to individual chemicals and final products and conduct human health and environmental hazard evaluations and risk assessments.
- Evaluate the safety of products and raw materials and prepare GHS classifications, toxicological profiles, robust summaries, chemical safety reports, workplace exposure standards/guidelines, MSDS health hazard, toxicological statements and other related documents.
- Key member of risk assessment teams for various needs such as new raw material approval, new technology analysis, product life cycle reviews, green chemistry/sustainability programs, and mergers and acquisitions.
- Design, place and manage toxicology research in a sound and scientific manner for new and existing products and raw materials required to comply with global regulations.
- Represent SABIC on a variety of external networks such as participation in advocacy/trade groups and SIEFs, interactions with regulators, government scientists and key customers world-wide.
- Attend scientific forum, workshops, training courses, present and publish important research, and publish research in peer-review journals.
- Member of team responsible for coordination of required exposure/hazard data to support REACH readiness.
- Support Product Stewardship Product Safety and Regulatory Affairs teams to respond to customer and employee product inquiries
- Hazard assessment of chemicals and polymers
- Risk assessment of substances of concern
- Toxicology study management
- GHS classifications
- Support raw material introduction process
- Commercial product hazard communication creation
- Support customer/employee product issue resolution
- Product stewardship project support, planning, and implementation
Additional Responsibilities:
Ability to influence SABIC Europe and Global Partner(s)- Ability to balance supportive/steering activities at Site and European level including go to for Advice by local manager(s)
- Ability to work and influence in multi-cultural, diverse Global Community whilst aligning with local and global policy and legal directives
- Ability to promote local and global corporate values
- Strong Entrepreneurial and Business Acumen working cross business and function(s)
MINIMUM EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
- Minimum Master’s and/or Ph.D. in Toxicology or related discipline (and/or Technical Degree equivalent)
- Minimum 5+ years of professional experience
- Industry experience in toxicology
- Familiarity with OECD and US EPA OPPTS testing guidelines
- Hands on experience with HPV or REACH risk assessment process
- Chemical advocacy through participation in trade industry groups and technical consortia
- Project management experience
- Effective collaboration
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Strong interpersonal and influencing skills
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills
- Product regulatory advocacy
- Human health and environmental toxicology
- Risk assessment techniques
- Research management experience
- Fluency in English (both written and verbal) other additional European languages a bonus
Location: STC-Geleen, The Netherlands
Travel: 25% (regionally and globally)
FURTHER INFORMATION
Interested in this position?
Please apply online by sending us your CV and motivation letter in English. Due to data privacy reasons we do not handle any applications sent by email. For additional questions you can contact: Karl Davies, Corporate Recruiter via email – karl.davies@sabic.com
The application closing-date is 31st July 2023.
Please be informed that a reference check, an employment verification and E-assessment are part of our recruitment process. A Certificate of Good Conduct can be requested depending on the level of the role in our organization and/or function, allowing us to request depending on local regulations.
Responses from employment agencies will not be considered.
ABOUT SABIC
SABIC is a global diversified chemicals company, headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. We manufacture on a global scale in the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific, making distinctly different kinds of products: chemicals, commodity and high performance plastics, agri-nutrients and metals. We support our customers by identifying and developing opportunities in key end-use applications such as construction, medical devices, packaging, agri-nutrients, electrical and electronics, transportation and clean energy. Our production in 2020 was 60.8 million metric tons.
We have more than 33,000 employees worldwide and operates in around 50 countries. Fostering innovation and a spirit of ingenuity, we have 9,000+ global patent filings, and significant research resources with innovation hubs in five key geographies – USA, Europe, Middle East, South Asia and North Asia.
In Europe, we have over 6,000 professionals running multiple world-scale production sites and 4 technology and innovation centers. We are present in almost every European country. Major locations within our broad network of innovation, production and marketing are: Teesside (UK), Cartagena (Spain), Gelsenkirchen (Germany), Geleen (the Netherlands), Bergen op Zoom (the Netherlands) and Genk (Belgium).
SABIC is committed to creating a diverse work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and as such will not discriminate in its employment practices, including recruiting and hiring practices, based on a person’s race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation and pregnancy), age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.
