Product Stewardship Specialist

Bakelite•Decatur, GA

About The Position

As Product Stewardship Specialist at Bakelite, you’ll help us create a better tomorrow with sustainable and innovative chemistry today. We’re Everywhere. Everywhere you look, you’ll find products enabled by Bakelite, from stronger homes to safer automobiles and everywhere in between. With more than 100 years of history and strong customer relationships, we boldly engineer sustainable products to tackle our world’s most challenging demands. Join Our Team and Help Us Build a Stronger, Safer, Better World. It’s Better with Bakelite. In this role you will support global portfolio of Industrial resins including formaldehyde, phenol, UFC technologies and applications. You will have oversight to domestic and international regulatory needs from development to commercialization and customer regulatory support. You will be critical in various daily product safety activities including but not limited to Hazard Communication reviews, GHS, TSCA, DOT, FDA, REACH and REACH like registrations.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Environmental Health Science, Biology, Toxicology, or a related technical field, with relevant industry experience; equivalent combinations of education and experience may be considered.
Minium of 4+ years relevant experience in product stewardship and/or regulatory compliance including SDS/Label authoring and DG classification all modes; EU and International experience is a plus.
Computer skills (SAP a must, SDS authoring software- ExEss and/or Intelligent Authoring experience a plus).
Willingness for 10% travel.

Nice To Haves

Working knowledge of analytical and reaction chemistry a plus.
Experience working with international and multifunctional teams a plus.
Multi-lingual a plus.

Responsibilities

Support maintenance and updates of the company America’s ERP and SDS authoring systems.
Respond to routine and moderately complex internal and external customer inquiries on regulatory matters including REACH Compliance, Chemical Inventory Reviews, RoHS Letters, VOC/HAPs, varies regulatory.
Assist with maintaining EPA TSCA oversight and compliance training for 11 manufacturing facilities, including Inventory, Import, Export, CDR activities.
Shared responsibility for preparing and/or reviews Safety Data Sheets and labels to ensure they comply with individual region regulatory product classifications.
Shared responsibility Federal and State customer inquires.
Shared responsibility for the review and approval of new raw materials and vendors and for the maintenance of the related data in the company ERP and SDS authoring systems.
Shared responsibility for regulatory compliance of existing and new products as subject-matter-expert on applicable product and chemical regulations in the assigned regions.
Shared responsibility for FDA food contact, drug and resin coatings reviews, registrations and determinations.
Shared responsibility for Product Stewardship Compliance ERP systems work processes and standardizations.
Support the implementation of current and new chemical regulations in assigned regions.
Support Responsible Care Management Systems.