Environmental Risk Assesor

Job description

Job Title: Environment Risk Assessor
Salary: Competitive with bonus, Healthcare and Pension
Location: COLWORTH, Bedford UK
Travel: up to 5%

Business Context and Main Purpose of the Job

SEAC is a Unilever Capability housed in R&D. SEAC scientists provide authoritative leadership in safety (Consumer, Occupational & Environmental) and environmental sustainability (COES) for risk/impact-based decision making to help drive Unilever's sustainable growth ambitions.

You will be responsible for the development and application of environmental risk assessment models used to understand potential environmental safety risks associated with ingredients across Unilever's product portfolio. With experience in higher tier approaches to chemical risk assessment, you will work with others across SEAC to develop, use and link mechanistic effects models (e.g. individual, population, ecosystem) with temporally and spatially explicit fate and exposure models. You will provide leadership to the development of novel approaches to risk assessment, management and communication that provides new mechanistic insights to ingredient safety where traditional approaches are inadequate.

Main Accountabilities

· Carry out risk assessments related to the use of Unilever ingredients with a focus on the development and use of new approaches to improve our mechanistic understanding of ingredient fate and effects.
· Work with others in SEAC (e.g. environmental modellers, risk assessors and experimental scientists) to design and lead the development of novel approaches to refine environmental risk assessment and the external acceptance of these approaches.
· Identify capability requirements to ensure the delivery of the current & future SEAC work programme and contribute to the strategic direction of the discipline
· Actively participate in external activities to influence scientific developments in risk assessment within industry task forces and workshops, scientific conferences and with regulators.
· Engage external networks and build strong collaborative relationships to develop environmental risk assessment models, including leading external research programmes.
· Advise SEAC and Unilever of emerging issues in the area of environmental safety
· Involvement in the design, placement and monitoring of experimental studies conducted internally and externally
· Act as a Project Leader within SEAC to support the Unilever business and build future capability.
Critical Success factors for the Job
Key Skills and Experience

· A first degree in a biological, chemical or environmental science
· A postgraduate professional qualification and/or PhD
· Proven experience in chemical risk assessment in an industrial or regulatory context, including understanding testing requirements, experimental design and interpretation of results
· Experience of leading projects and working in multidisciplinary teams

STANDARDS OF LEADERSHIP

Bias for Action
Building Talent and Teams
Growth Mindset
Consumer and Customer Focus
Accountability & Responsibility

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Unilever is a global Fast-Moving Consumer Goods company in the UK and Ireland. We are already on target to achieve our huge ambition to double the size of our business globally whilst reducing our environmental impact. We are growing our business and also doing what is right for our consumers, community and environment. We are developing brands for people's lives today and for the changing environment tomorrow - making sustainable living commonplace.

Working at Unilever means that you get to take part in this exciting journey and work with amazing people who are really passionate about our large portfolio of famous brands. We want to improve billions of lives and you too can join us in making a sustainable difference.

APPLICATION PROCESS
Online Application >> Face to Face Interview >> Job Offer

Please note: As part of the job application, you will be asked to complete a brief online application form. Completion of the form is required in order to be considered. Please allow yourself enough time to complete the application form as when filled out partially or not at all it may adversely affect the progress of your application. Please be aware that you will have to complete the form at once as you will be unable to return to it later.

For further information about this position please call: 0800 0284390. Please do not contact this number if you are an agency/third party. This number is strictly for candidates only.