Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

We are looking to recruit a Senior Consultant - SDS Author to be part of our team.

Key Responsibilities:

The Senior Consultant - SDS Author will be responsible for:

• Undertaking a range of Safety Data Sheet authoring for a variety of clients, with wider support to other technical areas including REACH, Poison Centre notifications etc.
• Providing extensive technical knowledge especially in the area of SDS authoring, undertaking authoring work using Ricardo’s 3rd party SDS authoring software.
• Providing management of project staff related to customers / consultants working on technical projects as agreed with the Product Managers for specific customer work (Managing the quality, accuracy and timeliness of deliverables)
• Supporting the personal development of other members of the team across these technical areas and management skills.
• Reviewing SDS Authored by the team providing feedback, then working with them to improve the quality of deliverables, both directly and through procedural changes.
• Providing expert technical consultancy input to support the growth and development and evolution of our SDS Authoring Services, developing new consultancy solutions to emerging regulatory changes.
• Liaising with marketing and sales staff to ensure effective promotion of Ricardo’s capabilities in support of sales activities to grow these areas.
• Identifying and helping to take forward opportunities that are uncovered through the technical work e.g. through technical conversations around Safety Data Sheets uncovering where the customer may require additional support in REACH, Poison Centres and Emergency Response or training opportunities and working with the sales team to close these.

Key competencies and experience:

• Competent SDS author experience in across multiple jurisdictions (USA, EU, UK, Japan, China, Korea etc.), including extended-SDS.
• Have an extensive background in supply regulations (and potentially transport regs as well); safety data sheet authoring, understanding how to classify both substances and mixtures and author a fully compliant safety data sheet, expert knowledge of REACH and knowledge of Poison centres desirable but not a necessity.
• Performing and managing high quality technical consultancy in the field of chemical regulatory affairs.
• Have and maintain expert knowledge of the regulations affecting the worldwide chemical industry, in particular supply regulations GHS and CLP.
• Keep up to date with market trends and developments and provide technical support to colleagues in the development of new service offerings and creation of technical papers.
• Contribute ideas to the development of business strategy with respect to regulatory consultancy.
• Provide the product managers with management support to enable successful delivery of regulatory consultancy projects and fulfilment of personal development/ training needs for others in the team.
• Be an excellent communicator and used to presenting your ideas and project outputs to customers and ideally at regulatory conferences.
• Have the ability to manage and influence people effectively and/ or delegate work to others.

Working here
You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place. We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Work life balance
We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Diversity, Equality and Inclusion statement
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

Benefits
We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health.

Next steps
Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.