Please note that the European Chemicals Agency and the job position are located in Helsinki, Finland.

1) The job

We are looking for Scientific Officers for two profiles in the fields of environmental sciences and human health toxicology. Scientific Officers may also work on the implementation of the new tasks recently taken over by ECHA, such as the Drinking Water Directives (DWD) and Batteries Regulation. In addition, ECHA’s growing mandate includes several amended Directives and Regulations, e.g. the Water Framework, Environmental Quality Standards, and Groundwater Directives, the Industrial Emissions Directive, the End-of-Life Vehicles (ELV) Directive, the Restriction of Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment (RoHS) Directive and the Toys Safety Regulation, which will also need such expertise.

2) Key responsibilities

Work profile 1: Ecotoxicologist

• Evaluating registration dossiers (e.g., experimental studies and adaptations) against the information requirements in the REACH Regulation, examining testing proposals, preparing draft decisions,



and responding to comments received on draft decisions;

• Application and evaluation of methodologies alternative to animal testing, such as read-across, QSAR and grouping in regulatory risk assessment;

• Assessing and providing expert opinions on ecotoxicology and environmental fate, the relevance and reliability of experimental studies, assessing and evaluating relevance and conclusions made in the environmental effect, exposure and PBT/PMT assessment and risk characterisation of substances;

• Assessing the environmental hazard profile of chemical substances in relation to classification and labelling obligations (in particular PBT/vPvB, PMT/vPvM, and environmental endocrine disruptors’ criteria);

• Preparing and/or supporting the development of the Agency’s decisions and opinions;

• Preparing, managing, and follow-up of the meetings of ECHA’s Committees, relevant working groups, and expert g

📌 Scientific Officer (Madrid)
🏢 European Chemicals Agency
📍 Madrid