Product Stewardship Specialist

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.

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.

It's Better with Bakelite: Our Commitment Back to You

• You'll Help Shape Our Future. As a Bakelite associate, you're part of a diverse, global population creating the next generation of the company and we expect you to put your fingerprint on it.
• We Champion Our Associates. At Bakelite, you don't just climb the career ladder you pave your personal path through continued learning and development.
• Together, We Will Protect the Planet. From our processes to our products, we are focusing on the opportunities that both grow our profitability as a company, and improve and protect the planet.
• Safety is a Core Value. At Bakelite, safety is a 24/7 mindset. We are all safe today to ensure we are able to show up tomorrow for our families and friends, for each other and for our communities.
• We Care. Plain and simple, we care about our associates. From the top on down, we place a high value on our culture and the associate experience. We offer competitive compensation, robust benefits and support our associates every step of their career.

Life in Decatur:

• Located just east of downtown Atlanta, Decatur is a vibrant city with lots of attractions and entertainment. It's also known as the "Soybean Capital of the World."
• Decatur is home to more than 200 restaurants, boutiques, galleries and other businesses. The city holds year-round festivals, concerts and other community events and gatherings.
• Decatur served as the backdrop for HBO's "Watchmen" superhero series.
• Explore the DeKalb History Center Museum, or hop a ride to downtown Atlanta to explore Zoo Atlanta, Georgia Aquarium, Atlanta Botanical Garden and more.

What Does a Typical Day Look Like? Here are your primary 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.

What is Needed to be Successful in this Role (Required Skills/Abilities):

• 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.
• Minimum 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).
• Working knowledge of analytical and reaction chemistry a plus.
• Experience working with international and multifunctional teams a plus.
• Multi-lingual a plus.
• Willingness for 10% travel.