Join our dynamic Consumer Safety Team as a Technical Expert 3 (Toxicologist) in this entry-level professional role with abundant career growth potential. As a Toxicologist, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the safety of our genetically modified crop products.
This role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking agricultural innovations while developing your expertise in toxicology and regulatory science. If you're passionate about food safety, biotechnology, and making a tangible impact on global agriculture, we want to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities:
- Interpret and apply data requirements for human and animal safety assessments, with a focus on toxicity assessment.
- Design, coordinate, and monitor toxicity studies, ensuring compliance with regulatory guidelines, GLP requirements, and safety standards.
- Conduct and interpret toxicity studies, preparing comprehensive reports for regulatory submissions.
- Conduct thorough systematic literature reviews on product safety, utilizing various databases and online resources.
- Work towards becoming a recognized subject matter expert both internally and in industry/scientific forums.
- Apply toxicological principles to contribute to the safety assessment of genetically modified crop products.
Company Description
Syngenta Seeds is one of the world’s largest developers and producers of seed for farmers, commercial growers, retailers and small seed companies. Syngenta seeds improve the quality and yields of crops. High-quality seeds ensure better and more productive crops, which is why farmers invest in them. Advanced seeds help mitigate risks such as disease and drought and allow farmers to grow food using less land, less water and fewer inputs.
Syngenta Seeds brings farmers more vigorous, stronger, resistant plants, including innovative hybrid varieties and biotech crops that can thrive even in challenging growing conditions.
Qualifications
- PhD degree in toxicology with 0-2 years of relevant academic or industry experience.
- In-depth knowledge and experiences in toxicity assessment.
- Demonstrated proficiency of designing, conducting, interpreting and reporting toxicity studies using in vivo and in vitro methodologies.
- Demonstrated proficiency of scouting, reviewing, categorizing, and summarizing scientific literature to address a technical question is highly desirable.
- Knowledge of the safety assessment paradigm for genetically modified crops is a plus.
- Additional knowledge and experiences in human and animal risk assessment, and bio/statistical analysis is a plus.
Additional Information
What We Offer:
- A culture that celebrates diversity & inclusion, promotes professional development, and strives for a work-life balance that supports the team members. Offers flexible work options to support your work and personal needs.
- Full Benefit Package (Medical, Dental & Vision) that starts your first day.
- 401k plan with company match, Profit Sharing & Retirement Savings Contribution.
- Paid Vacation, Paid Holidays, Maternity and Paternity Leave, Education Assistance, Wellness Programs, Corporate Discounts, among other benefits.
Syngenta has been ranked as a top employer by Science Journal.
Learn more about our team and our mission here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVCN_51GbNI
Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.
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