Principal Toxicologist/Risk Assessor

At Arcadis we focus on attracting, retaining and developing people who share our passion and commitment to improve quality of life. In return we offer you the opportunity to transform your world and the world around you, that could be through client work, upskilling yourself, championing equality and inclusion or getting involved in charity work, to name just a few. Our people value different perspectives, they care about the sustainability of our planet and dare to shape the future.

One of our core values is ‘people first’, and supported by our Lovinklaan foundation, we invest in you for the long term, to ensure you reach your full potential. You’ll have the opportunity to own your career and work on industry-defining projects, finding solutions to real challenges that make a difference to people’s lives. You’re encouraged to have a growth mindset and are given the space to develop personally and professionally, building a flexible career that works for you.

Role description:

The Environmental Business Line of Arcadis is seeking a senior level human health toxicologist and risk assessor to help grow our risk assessment and toxicology community of practice. Arcadis brings a wide range of technical skills to creatively and effectively address our clients’ biggest issues. Toxicology and risk assessment are often key components of the strategy that we provide our clients. As such, the successful candidate will have excellent creative problem solving, collaboration, and communication skills and will provide subject matter expertise in the field of human health toxicology and risk assessment, with a focus on environmental, workplace, and consumer settings. The successful candidate will be self-motivated and have a passion for life-long learning, identifying ways to leverage the principles of human health toxicology and risk assessment to serve the needs of others, and enhancing human and environmental health.

Role accountabilities:

• Developing business opportunities and nurturing/growing client relationships
• Developing strategies and approaches for for projects that focus on human health toxicology and/or risk assessment
• Designing, performing, and/or overseeing the execution of dose-response modeling, exposure modeling, and the development of hazard profiles for chemicals
• Negotiating with regulatory agencies (e.g., USEPA, State Environmental Agencies, OSHA)
• Representing Arcadis at professional meetings and societies
• Providing litigation support and expert testimony
• Helping to develop current staff and identify new talent in the areas of human health toxicology and risk assessment

Qualifications & Experience:

Required Qualifications:

• Masters in toxicology or closely related field with at least 15 years of consulting or industry experience, or
• PhD in toxicology or closely related field with at least 10 years of consulting or industry experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Why Become an Arcadian?

Our work with clients has a direct impact on people’s lives and on the planet. We make moving, living and belonging in cities safer, more resilient and more sustainable. By partnering with our clients as responsible custodians of our earth's resources, we can create a sustainable planet.

We continue to think of new ways to make positive impacts and create better experiences for people; data driven and digital solutions have become part of the Arcadis DNA. Working together with clients and using techniques like design thinking, we can get to the heart of our clients’ most pressing challenges and work together to solve them.

As a global business, we have committed to support five of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to ensure that our projects contribute to a better and more sustainable future for all. But it’s not just the work that we do on client projects that benefits communities and our planet. As a global business, we are committed to making a positive impact to society by supporting local communities where we operate.

To help protect our planet, we monitor and measure non-financial information to inform business decisions and reduce our own environmental impact as part of our commitment to be net zero carbon as a global company by 2030.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging:

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

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