What are the responsibilities and job description for the Specialist Sr.-Product Stewardship position at Westlake?
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SUMMARY
The Sr. Product Stewardship Specialist role works as the liaison between commercial, legal, and technology representatives and serves as the lead on the development and maintenance of Business Group management system requirements for addressing product compliance. This role will work with various Business Group Product Stewardship teams, assisting each Business Group in proactively managing the product regulatory issues arising in the markets and jurisdictions served, while promoting best practice sharing across the corporation.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Monitor emerging issues, develop risk assessments, and communicate possible impacts to the business posed by changing global regulations and chemical control laws.
- Work with Business Groups and Risk Management to assess business and operational risks as well as potential impacts for their global sales & marketing activities. Help the Business Groups develop a strategic plan for mitigating identified risks.
- Proactively and continually improves their level of knowledge about global chemical-control regulatory requirements
- Responds to customer inquiries regarding product regulatory compliance, ingredient disclosure, disposal and other product stewardship concerns that are global in nature. Serves to ensure consistency in handling of customer inquiries across regions.
- Work with Business Groups to ensure timely registrations or product notifications are made with the applicable governmental authorities to enable continued movement of product through the supply chain to all global customers.
- 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 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 supply chain participants to foster product safety management and information exchange along the supply chain, commensurate with risk.
- Responsible for managing chemical control compliance programs, product registrations, and import and export compliance.
- Supports implementation of safety data sheet and product labeling programs and raw material introduction programs.
- Provides regulatory and technical advice to Technical, Sales and Marketing for complex local, national and international EHS regulatory and scientific matters.
EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, stand, walk and climb; use hands to touch, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, or crouch. The employee must occasionally lift and / or move up to 10 pounds, and infrequently lift and / or move up to 50 lbs. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. The employee must frequently make minor decisions requiring limited judgement, general decisions in the absence of specific directions, and perform activities requiring sustained concentration.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
The noise level in the work environment is sometimes moderate when working in an office; however, some of the work may be required in the operating units, which mandates usage of required PPE including safety glasses, hearing protection, etc. May also result in exposure to outside elements and may require usage of stairs. Travel may be required occasionally.
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Westlake is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristics protected by applicable legislation.
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