Senior Scientist II, Occupational & Environmental Toxicologist

Company : BioSpace, Inc.
Location : North Chicago, IL, 60086
Posted Date : 3 October 2025
Job Type : Other
Category : Scientific Research & Development
Occupation : Scientist
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Company Description
AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at . Follow @abbvie on X , Facebook , Instagram , YouTube , LinkedIn and Tik Tok .
Job Description
Senior Scientist II, Occupational & Environmental Toxicologist
Genetic, Environmental, and Occupational Toxicology (GEO Tox) is a diverse team of scientists with the goals of supporting patient, environmental, and employee safety. The candidate will complete risk assessments supporting occupational, environmental, manufacturing, and regulatory filings. The position will support programs across AbbVies therapeutic areas and involve a broad range of modalities across all stages from early discovery throughout development to marketed products.
We are seeking an experienced toxicologist with a risk assessment background to join our team in Development Sciences, Pre-clinical Safety.
Responsibilities :
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Company
AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, virology, women's health and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at . Follow @abbvie on Twitter , Facebook , Instagram , and YouTube .
Stock Symbol: ABBV
Stock Exchange: NYSE
Company info
Website Phone Location 1 North Waukegan Road
North Chicago
Illinois
60064
United States
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Company Description
AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at . Follow @abbvie on X , Facebook , Instagram , YouTube , LinkedIn and Tik Tok .
Job Description
Senior Scientist II, Occupational & Environmental Toxicologist
Genetic, Environmental, and Occupational Toxicology (GEO Tox) is a diverse team of scientists with the goals of supporting patient, environmental, and employee safety. The candidate will complete risk assessments supporting occupational, environmental, manufacturing, and regulatory filings. The position will support programs across AbbVies therapeutic areas and involve a broad range of modalities across all stages from early discovery throughout development to marketed products.
We are seeking an experienced toxicologist with a risk assessment background to join our team in Development Sciences, Pre-clinical Safety.
Responsibilities :
- Critically evaluate literature and toxicology reports/summaries and utilize tools such as read-across and in silico data to generate toxicology product risk assessments. This includes toxicology support for extractables and leachables, health-based exposure limits (HBELs) including permitted daily exposure limits (PDEs) and occupational exposure limits (OELs), and environmental risk assessments (ERA), and other contaminants.
- Successful collaboration with multi-functional teams to align on safety banding for implementation throughout the company.
- Engage in related external working groups to help drive industry standards and stay informed of upcoming regulations.
- Provide guidance and mentorship to junior team members in GEO Tox and adjacent departments
- Plan and monitor studies at contract research organizations (CROs) for environmental assessments and biocompatibility studies to support regulatory filings.
- Plan and monitor studies at contract research organizations (CROs) for worker safety studies to occupational safety.
- Support evaluation/implementation of relevant new approach methodologies (NAM)
- Provide technical support for occupational health (hazard) categorizations and chemical registrations, including Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals GHS/CLP, and Safety Data Sheets (SDS).
- Bachelors Degree and typically 12+ years of experience, OR Masters Degree and 10+ years of experience, OR PhD and 4 years of experience.
- Previous experience in a pharmaceutical/biopharmaceutical or GMP/GLP industry setting providing risk assessments preferred
- Proven record of successfully evaluating safety risks
- Excellent collaboration, multi-tasking, and communication skills
- Excellent writing skills and attention to detail with work
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and meet project deadlines
- Occupational Exposure Banding, Performance-based exposure control limits, or evaluating toxicity data for Safety Data Sheets.
- Risk assessment authoring
- In depth knowledge and experience with regulatory guidance, i.e., ISO-10993-X, ICHQ3C, ICHQ3D, ICHQ3E.
- Toxicity data mining in databases and both internal and external literature
- Broad range of software proficiency as well as in silico predictive tools for toxicity
- Board-certification preferred but not required
- The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Companybelieves ingood faith it will pay for this role at the timeof this posting based on the job grade for this position.Individualcompensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, andwemay ultimatelypay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in thefuture.
- We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick),medical/dental/visioninsurance and 401(k) to eligibleemployees.
- This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentiveprograms.
- This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentiveprograms
US & Puerto Rico applicants seeking a reasonable accommodation, click here to learn more:
Company
AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, virology, women's health and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at . Follow @abbvie on Twitter , Facebook , Instagram , and YouTube .
Stock Symbol: ABBV
Stock Exchange: NYSE
Company info
Website Phone Location 1 North Waukegan Road
North Chicago
Illinois
60064
United States
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