Senior Product Stewardship Specialist Job Listing at Kelly Services in Houston, TX (Job ID 10060136)

Description

Kelly is currently seeking Senior Product Stewardship Specialist for a long-term opportunity in the Houston, Texas area! The Senior Product Stewardship Specialist will support regulatory and compliance initiatives for company's Packaging & Specialty Plastics (P&SP) Univation business in North American (NA). This role collaborates with R&D, commercial, and operations teams, as well as the Global and NA P&SP Product Stewardship team, to ensure new technologies and products meet safety and regulatory standards. Key responsibilities include leveraging EHS&S processes, regulatory expertise, and product safety resources to maintain compliance with US EPA TSCA, CEPA, and other relevant regulations. The position requires close coordination with internal and external R&D partners, including senior leadership.

Responsibilities / Duties:

• Understands, integrates, and leverages various functional work processes, focused specifically on ensuring product safety and regulatory compliance for in NA partnering with EHS&S functions in Operations, Research & Development, Technical Center, Derivatives, Legal, Commercial, Product Regulatory Services, Toxicology, and Excellence.
• Gains a thorough understanding of product technology including hazards, product end-use applications (both supported and not supported) and existing product risk characterizations to enable appropriate risk management.
• Maintains a network of product safety resources to engage for compliance and risk management activities.
• Implements business-specific Product Stewardship MI plans that address business and company needs.
• Supports business goals to enable growth.
• Provides leadership in translating business strategies to regulatory needs and monitors external changes to the regulatory landscape that may impact the business.
• Ensures chemical regulatory compliance is met for each product.
• Reviews raw material suppliers and product formulations materials for regulatory compliance and addresses necessary registration needs to ensure safe and compliant operations.
• Designs and delivers product stewardship, safe handling, and regulatory training for key internal and external stakeholders (e.g., customers, suppliers, regional leadership teams, etc.).
• Partners with Product Stewardship leadership on relevant NA advocacy efforts related to safer materials and other regional specific concerns.
• Reviews and approves product literature for appropriate EHS&S content.
• Completes compliance-related customer inquiries within timelines given in the Customer Experience (Cx) framework.
• Assists in identifying and investigating customer EH&S incidents.
• Identifies and reports events that qualify for the Product Stewardship Metric.
• Responsible for execution of key work processes (i.e. Business Risk Review, Management of Change, Change Management Tool request, etc.) and training the business on Product Stewardship work processes.
• Conducts targeted Business Risk Reviews (BRRs) to run the business activities.

Qualifications:

• A minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Toxicology, Industrial Hygiene, or a Specialized EH&S Discipline.
• Relevant experience in the industry (i.e., Petrochemical, Chemical, Refining Operations, Plastic Manufacturing) or in EHS&S related functional role (i.e., Product Stewardship, Product Regulatory, Toxicology, Sustainability).
• Petrochemical, Chemical, Refining Operations, Plastic Manufacturing, Catalyst manufacturing, or EHS&S related functional role).
• Has a good product, market and regulatory knowledge, including US EPA and CEPA.
• Has a strong emphasis on a safe work environment by working safely and, complying with environmental, health and safety rules, regulations, and standards.
• Has a focus on project management, collaboration strategy execution, stakeholder communication.
• The position may require infrequent travel for business team meetings and trade/industry association meetings.

As part of our promise to talent, Kelly supports those who work with us through a variety of benefits, perks, and work-related resources. Kelly offers eligible employees voluntary benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, term life, whole life, accident insurance, critical illness, a legal plan, and short-term disability. As a Kelly employee, you will have access to a retirement savings plan, service bonus and holiday pay plans (earn up to eight paid holidays per benefit year), and a transit spending account. In addition, employees are entitled to earn paid sick leave under the applicable state or local plan. Click here for more information on benefits and perks that may be available to you as a member of the Kelly Talent Community.

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About Kelly

Work changes everything. And at Kelly, we're obsessed with where it can take you. To us, it's about more than simply accepting your next job opportunity. It's the fuel that powers every next step of your life. It's the ripple effect that changes and improves everything for your family, your community, and the world. Which is why, here at Kelly, we are dedicated to providing you with limitless opportunities to enrich your life—just ask the 300,000 people we employ each year.

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