Product Stewardship Specialist II

Westlake•Town 'n' Country, FL

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Westlake offers an entrepreneurial environment where employees work to enhance lives through products and community presence. This role involves leading and implementing product regulatory compliance and materials management programs to ensure products are developed, sold, distributed, transported, used, and disposed of in compliance with global, regional, national, and local product compliance regulations. These regulations include product hazard communication requirements, chemical and product inventory control regulations (e.g., TSCA, DSL, REACH), and product-related requirements like import/export permits. The specialist will proactively improve knowledge of chemical regulations and pesticides, support safety data sheet and product labeling programs, and respond to customer inquiries regarding product regulatory compliance, use, and disposal. The position also involves developing and maintaining information on safety, health, and environmental hazards for new and existing products, characterizing product risks, and communicating risk management measures. Collaboration with suppliers, customers, and other value chain participants is key to fostering product safety management and information exchange. The role supports chemical control compliance programs, product registrations, and import/export compliance, and provides regulatory and technical information to Technical, Sales, and Marketing for complex EHS regulatory and scientific matters.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Environmental, or related science.
5-7 years of experience in product stewardship.
Good interpersonal and written and oral communication skills.
Capable of collaborating with the business and other functions to support implementation of global product stewardship strategy, policies, standards, programs and operating procedures as applicable.
Demonstrate high attention to detail, take ownership and drive results.

Nice To Haves

A preferred knowledge of relevant federal and state laws and regulations governing product safety such as EPA, FIFRA, Pesticides, Biocides, and a broad knowledge of product stewardship.

Responsibilities

Proactively and continually improves their level of knowledge about chemical regulations and pesticides.
Supports implementation of safety data sheet and product labeling programs and raw material introduction programs.
Responds to customer inquiries regarding product regulatory compliance, use, disposal and other product stewardship concerns that are global in nature.
Serves to ensure consistency in handling customer inquiries across regions.
Develops and maintains information on safety, health and environmental hazards, intended uses and exposures for new and existing products to support risk characterization and product safety management.
Characterizes product risks based on information collected on hazards, intended uses, and exposures associated with the stages of a product’s lifecycle.
Communicates health, safety and environmental measures to manage risk so that products can be designed, developed, improved, and safely used for their intended purposes.
Works with suppliers, customers and other value chain participants to foster product safety management and information exchange along the value chain, commensurate with risk.
Supports the management of chemical control compliance programs, product registrations and import and export compliance.
Provides regulatory and technical information to Technical, Sales and Marketing for complex local, national and international EHS regulatory and scientific matters.