Occupational Toxicologist - Middlesex, United Kingdom - GSK

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UK - Hertfordshire - Stevenage, Durham Blackwell Street, GSK House, Wavre


Posted Date:
May 8 2024

We create a place where people can grow, be their best, be safe, and feel welcome, valued and included.

We offer a competitive salary, an annual bonus based on company performance, healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, and shares and savings programme.


We embrace modern work practises; our Performance with Choice programme offers a hybrid working model, empowering you to find the optimal balance between remote and in-office work.

Discover more about our company wide benefits and life at GSK on our webpage _Life at GSK | GSK_

We're moving towards a more sustainable future with our new headquarters.

With better public transport links and proximity to world-class science and technology institutions, we're excited for our move to the vicinity of Earnshaw Street, London WC1A ("the New HQ") by end H1 2024.


Occupational Toxicologist


The Global EHS team supports across the entire GSK business from end-to-end product life cycle from early-stage drug discovery through to manufacture and commercialisation of the product.

Ensuring to provide required fundamental EHS information at each stage to avoid harm to people, facilities and the environment whilst adhering to global regulatory requirements.


As an Occupational Toxicologist you will use your expertise to provide key support to allow GSK to identify risks associated with working with chemicals, and to establish internal work practices and controls to protect GSK employees and contractors.


In this role you will

  • Provides expert toxicology review of GSK Safety Data Sheets (SDS) for GSK drug substances, intermediates, mixtures, products etc. Interfaces with SDS authors to ensure timely and accurate development / updates;
  • Provides expert toxicology assessments (human health hazard assessments) and guidance for GSK products and process materials across global span of GSK, including development of Health based exposure limits (HBELs): Occupational exposure limits (OELs), Permitted Daily Exposure (PDE) Limits for various modalities (small molecules, peptides, biologics, oligonucleotides, etc)
  • Provides worldwide training and support in toxicologically related topics, establishes and maintains processes to enable effective communication and education of key stakeholders, maintains the global EHS toxicology database;
  • Support to worker safety testing programs at external toxicology labs relevant for hazard characterization for new product and to support chemical registration data requirements
  • Contribute to projects to ensure regulatory compliance; authoring and/or reviewing reports, protocols, guidelines and standard operating procedures (SOPs) and ensuring harmonized approaches with regard to the toxicological assessments;
  • Monitor scientific developments and conduct desktop research including literature searches, and critically evaluate and summarise scientific information and government regulations.
  • Maintain toxicological expertise relevant to nonclinical safety of drugs, occupational health, and product quality risk, i.e. keeps up to date with the scientific literature and regulatory guidance, attends and contributes to relevant professional/scientific meetings, and publishes in peer reviewed journals, if appropriate

_ Why you?_

Basic Qualifications
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

  • Significant experience in toxicology field
  • BSc degree or equivalent in toxicology/pharmacology or related
  • Research skills with literature searches, toxicology databases, regulatory databases and computational tools
  • Project planning, tracking and management skills to ensure actions and commitments are delivered to plan
  • CI minded
  • Ambitious, proactive and motivated

Preferred Qualifications
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

  • Experience in regulatory toxicology, gained in pharmaceutical / biopharmaceutical, chemical, or related product manufacturing
  • Masters degree or equivalent in toxicology
  • Professional Qualification/Certifications (e.g DABT, ERT or similar).
  • An understanding of Globally Harmonized System (GHS) for classification and labelling of chemicals and the EU Classification, Labelling and Packaging (CLP) regulation and other relevant global regulations
  • Knowledge of global chemical regulations and hazard assessments

_ Closing Date for Applications:

Wednesday 22nd May 2024_:
Please take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert.


Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose - to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together - so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable sha
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