At Henkel, the Adhesive Technologies business unit is looking to hire a Product Safety and Regulatory Affairs Specialist to manage hazard communication, regulatory compliance, and product safety for their chemical products, ensuring they meet all applicable regulations and providing support for customer inquiries.
Requirements
- Familiarity with North American industrial and consumer federal and state regulations impacting chemical products (hazard communication standards/GHS classification and SDS authoring, control of toxic substances (TSCA, DSL), consumer product safety)
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office programs, especially Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- familiarity with SAP EHS is desired
Responsibilities
- Executes hazard communication for all products in applicable SBU and region, incl preparation of Safety Data Sheets and labels data
- Identifies, determines applicability and timely communication of potential impact of new raw material on intermediates, finished products
- Monitors, communicates and executes implementation of regulation changes
- Registers new chemical substances, monitors global chemical inventory status, substance volume tracking
- Participates in meetings and provides necessary support towards completing the PSRA check list
- Maintains a thorough knowledge of products, chemistries and processes
- Leads regional and global product safety and regulatory affairs projects to simplify, harmonize and streamline processes and procedures
Other
- Bachelor’s degree in chemistry, Biology, Industrial Hygiene, Toxicology, Environmental Health and Safety, or other relevant scientific discipline.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in the chemical industry.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; presentation skills and experience are desired; Ability to work independently and within a variety of cross-functional teams.
- Provides training to customer support functions in order to facilitate timely responses to basic customer inquiries at the local level
- Ensures continuing familiarity with all of the latest applicable regulations and toxicological information
