Product Stewardship Specialist - 1393

Job Description:

This position is responsible for providing regulatory support and guidance for all of the product lines, both chemical and finished products, including Safety Data Sheet (SDS) requirements, regulatory requirements, and responding to customer inquiries. This role will work collaboratively with, and under the guidance of, experienced compliance and regulatory professionals in the company's Corporate Product Stewardship group. The successful candidate will be expected to lead hazard communication activities for raw materials, finished goods, and experimental/non-commercial samples.

Responsibilities:

• Providing expertise in the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS)
• Conducting chemical hazard assessments as a participant in chemical review and approval processes; authoring Safety Data Sheets (SDSs)
• Generating corresponding product labeling content
• Classifying dangerous goods for multimodal bulk shipment
• Monitoring, analyzing, and reporting business impacts on local and global GHS activity
• Managing the distribution of SDSs, as well as hazard communication data and documents, in all relevant systems
• Updating and providing relevant hazard communication training to applicable company employees
• Collaborate with the Product Stewardship, Environmental, Industrial Hygiene, Research & Development, Sales, Engineering, Procurement, Legal and Operations teams to support chemical notifications, product registrations, and import/export requirements to support the company's growing global businesses.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry, Toxicology, Environmental, Industrial Hygiene or related field
• 3-5 years working in a regulatory affairs or product compliance/stewardship function
• Knowledge of chemical manufacturing and/or R&D operations preferred
• High degree of accountability, initiative and standard for accuracy.
• Strong critical thinking and interpersonal skills; self-motivated, and ability to handle multiple tasks while maintaining strong attention to details
• Experience working with SDS authoring software and labeling systems; knowledge of ExESS product safety software is preferred.
• Hazard Materials Transportation certification (DOT, IATA, IMDG) is preferred
• Working knowledge of TSCA, DSL, and other global chemical inventories and chemical control laws is a big plus
• Intermediate to advanced Microsoft applications (i.e. Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.) knowledge.