Senior Scientific & Regulatory Affairs Associate (Chemist)

Senior Scientific & Regulatory Affairs Associate (Chemist)

Intertek is searching for a Senior Scientific & Regulatory Affairs Associate (Chemist) to join our Assuris team in our Mississauga, Ontario office.

This is a fantastic opportunity to grow a versatile career in Chemical Regulatory Field!

The Senior Scientific & Regulatory Affairs Associate (Chemist) is responsible for:

What you’ll do:


* Critically review relevant information obtained via published and unpublished literature, from the client, from subcontracted testing laboratories and/or provided by project managers


* Work on projects with greater complexity of issues.


* Address concerns and questions of the client and senior project manager in relation to the material accumulated on the project.


* Communicate with client for clarifications/queries in relation to the material accumulated on the project.


* Prepare substantiation of confidentiality request reports


* Apply chemical techniques and structures to assist with the analysis and development of project strategy


* Exercise technical knowledge to assist with the design, execution and interpretation of project materials


* Draw chemical structures to support project documentation and where possible train others to draw chemical structures


* Provide chemical/technical expertise to projects for all business areas


* Assist other business areas, as appropriate, e.g., EPA/PMRA, etc.


* Assume responsibility for the quality (scientific accuracy, completeness, writing style of the initial draft) of work and the work of others who had a direct role in the project that you were responsible for.


* Apply and develop read-across methodologies to predict toxicity, bioaccumulation, degradation, and other key properties of chemical substances.


* Identify and justify suitable analogues for target substances using chemical structure, physicochemical properties, and mechanistic data.


* Develop and document scientifically defensible read-across rationales for regulatory dossiers (e.g., REACH, CEPA, TSCA).


* Use chem software tools and databases (e.g., OECD QSAR Toolbox, SciFinder, ECHA databases, etc) to support analogue selection and data interpretation.


* Review and validate chemical nomenclature for accuracy and compliance with CAS and/or IUPAC and regulatory standards.


* Interpret and apply Masked Name Regulations to chemical substances for regulatory submissions.


* Assist in reviewing and interpreting physical and chemical property data, analytical chemistry data, and chemical characterization information to support substance identity and regulatory assessments.


* Apply stoichiometric calculations to support substance characterization.


* Support senior chemist in preparing scientific information and technical reports.


* Communicate with project managers to obtain technical information required for regulatory assessments.


* Maintain acc...