Senior Scientist

3 days ago

Singapore Singapore Food Agency Full time

**What the role is**
- The mission of SFA is to ensure and secure a supply of safe food for Singapore. The National Centre for Food Science (NCFS) supports SFA’s vision of ensuring safe food for all by being a national reference laboratory on food science, conducting

You will be part of a dynamic team of Food Science Rapid Response Department (FSRRD) to provide support to SFA food safety monitoring and surveillance programs. The specialist teams of FSRRD strive to continue develop our testing capabilities and scientific knowledge to keep pace with the challenges of emerging food borne hazards in food. We collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to enhance food safety standards, support food security initiatives such as high-tech farming and evaluation of novel foods.
You will be deployed to the Pesticide Residue Specialist Team under FSRRD, playing a key role in developing new analytical methods for strengthening and broadening the testing capabilities and for enabling risk assessment to support SFA’s operation needs for food safety regulatory function and market monitoring programmes. You are also required to conduct review of food safety from time to time.
Based on the operation needs of the Department and your career advancement path, there are ample job rotation opportunities to broaden your scientific knowledge and sharpen your professional skills.
- Develop and validate new test methods to accommodate the operation needs and keep laboratory competency abreast of international food regulatory development.
- Strengthen laboratory productivity via automation and digitisation.
- Perform sample testing on pesticide residues to support SFA food safety regulatory and monitoring programs, implementing laboratory quality system to ensure full compliance to ISO/IEC 17025:2017 requirements.
- Serve as an expert witness in Court to support prosecution cases for the enforcement of food safety rules and regulations.
- Showcase the scientific achievements of the Specialist Team through scientific publication in peer-reviewed journals as well as through the delivery of presentation in seminars, workshops, and conferences.
- Procurement of scientific equipment and laboratory supplies based on the operation needs, ensuring full compliance with financial rules and regulations.
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to strengthen regulatory science pertaining to pesticide residues.
- Contribute to laboratory training and organisation of proficiency testing program in support of the NCFS’s role as WHO Collaborating Centre and OIE Collaborating Centre.
- Carry out other assignments as designated by the upper management.

Job Requirements
- Good knowledge and hand-on experience in sample extraction, cleanup and detection of trace compounds using advanced instrumentation, especially triple quad GCMSMS and/or LCMSMS techniques.
- A good track record in conducting independent research, method development and peer-reviewed scientific publication.
- Prior experiences in implementing ISO/IEC 17025:2017 laboratory quality system is beneficial.
- Possession of skills in data analytics is an advantage.

Work Location

National Centre for Food Science

7 International Business Park Road

Singapore 609919

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