Human Safety Risk Assessor

Role Purpose / Accountabilities

As a Project Expert – Risk Assessor in Syngenta’s Human Safety team, you will contribute to the conduct of human safety risk assessments as a senior level expert within North America Product Safety to support the maintenance, re-registration, and development of crop protection products (including chemical and/or seed care products) for Syngenta in United States and Canada. 

You will:

• Provide critical regulatory and scientific input in human health risk assessments including dietary and non-dietary (operator and residential) risk assessments.

• Manage a portfolio of registered active ingredients to maintain and expand product registrations, with a primary focus in North America.  Provide North America support for new active ingredient development projects.

• Collaboratively work with toxicologist(s), risk assessor(s), and modeler(s) in Human safety, as well as other experts in product safety, managing tasks of projects assigned to you

• Prepare and present scientific and technical positions to key internal stakeholders to inform project and business decisions as well as advocate Syngenta’s scientific/technical positions to key external stakeholders

• Lead team efforts in identifying, solving, and managing technical issues

• Communicate work results, progress and challenges to peers and project teams

• Maintain a working knowledge of the regulatory guidance which governs human safety risk assessment
   
• Provide technical guidance and mentor other less experienced team members

Critical success factors & key challenges

• Ability to make good technical judgements in a timely manner with limited supervision
• Ability to manage tasks and projects following a prior planning
• Ability to contribute to constructive discussion and resolution of key technical issues
• Ability to organize one’s own work
• Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously and to prioritize work effectively
• Ability to communicate with internal and external partners and stakeholders
• Effective written/verbal communication, organizational, and analytical skills
• Strong interpersonal skills and team oriented philosophy

• The position requires knowledge of regulatory science and human safety risk assessment for crop protection product development coupled with specialized knowledge/skills from education or job-related training in dietary and non-dietary (operator and residential) risk assessment.
• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in biological, public heath, chemical, life sciences, math, statistician or a combination of education and experience in a field relevant to human safety risk assessment to support the maintenance and development of crop protection products is required
• Indications of singular achievement as well as the ability to work in a high-functioning team is required
• Experience in a field relevant to human exposure, modelling, data analytics or biostatistics will be considered as a great differential.
• All applicants must be eligible to work in the U.S.
• Travel Requirements: some domestic and international travel required (≤ 5%)

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