Scientist III

We offer integrated, comprehensive solutions that address complex technical, clinical development, and safety and regulatory challenges, leveraging our deep scientific, medical, and regulatory expertise and real-world experience. Our goal is to help you complete projects efficiently and with less risk, leading to solutions for a healthier and safer world.

With a broad range of renowned scientific, medical, regulatory, and engineering specialists under one roof, we streamline your project and reduce your workload, so you can make sound, science-based decisions about human and environmental health issues.

BlueRidge Life Sciences is a growing family of companies providing a comprehensive suite of life sciences services, spanning toxicology, regulatory science, risk assessment, epidemiology, biostatistics, engineering, clinical research, health economics, pharmaceutical commercialization, and environmental consulting. Across these specialized areas, we collaborate to deliver science-driven solutions that support industries including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, chemicals, foods and consumer products. Our collective expertise helps clients navigate regulatory requirements, assess safety and efficacy, manage risks, and optimize pharmaceutical commercialization strategies.

If you’re ready to achieve your life science goals, there’s no better partner than BlueRidge Life Sciences.  

Job Description:

ToxStrategies, a division of BlueRidge Life Sciences (BRLS), is seeking a toxicologist, environmental health scientist, or risk assessment professional to join our expanding Causation Analysis consulting practice. At BRLS, our teams work on some of the hardest, most complex problems regarding environmental health risk. We firmly believe that our people constitute our most valuable asset and as such, we invest considerable effort in fostering a collaborative culture and collegial work environment. Our staff pursue technical and professional excellence while maintaining a work-life balance. BRLS supports on-site, hybrid and remote work. Our leadership team, renowned for their extensive knowledge and experience, guides a technical staff of highly educated and credentialed experts who are passionately dedicated to advancing science.

The position involves application of the risk assessment paradigm to comprehensively evaluate potential human health risks associated with exposures to chemicals in foods, consumer products, personal care products, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and environmental media (air, water, soil, and sediments). The successful candidate will have academic course work covering chemistry, toxicology, environmental health, risk assessment, exposure assessment, statistics, and chemical fate and transport mechanisms.

On a daily basis, responsibilities will involve reviewing toxicological data, performing literature reviews, constructing exposure assessments, and performing human health risk assessments to determine general and specific causation. A significant component of the position will involve technical writing in the form of case summaries, reports, and scientific manuscripts, as well as verbal communication via presentations and teleconferences. This role requires skillful attention to detail, collaboration with project team members, and independent thinking to approach research questions. This position includes assisting with quantitative methods such as statistical analysis, data cleaning and manipulation, environmental modeling, and exposure and risk calculations.

The position involves regular collaboration on multidisciplinary teams that may include toxicologists, epidemiologists, industrial hygienists, engineers, and biostatisticians, many of whom are recognized as leaders in their respective fields. Active participation in the scientific community such as presenting at professional meetings (e.g., AIHCE, ISES, SOT, SRA, SETAC), serving on committees, and publishing scientific manuscripts is strongly encouraged.

Essential Qualifications

• Master’s degree in toxicology, environmental science, or a related science degree (e.g., industrial hygiene, environmental health, public health).

• 0 - 4 years of experience in exposure and human health risk assessment, prior consulting experience is a major plus.

• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple assignments with attention to detail and effective time management skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Advanced Excel or R knowledge and ability to perform statistical analysis.

• Ability to work independently or in multidisciplinary teams; experience leading project tasks or teams is a plus.

• Ability to travel (may be required approximately 5%–10% of the time).

• Work location may be based out of Asheville, NC or New York, NY. Remote work is possible depending on experience.