Senior Product Safety Specialist

Lyondell Basell is a leader in the global chemical industry creating solutions for everyday sustainable living. With a nearly 70-year legacy that includes a Nobel Prize in Chemistry and our proprietary Mo Re Tec  recycling technology, LYB is enabling a more sustainable future for generations to come. LYB develops high-quality and innovative products for applications ranging from sustainable transportation and food safety to clean water and quality healthcare.

LYB places high priority on diversity, equity and inclusion and is Advancing Good with an emphasis on our planet, the communities where we operate and our future workforce. We're addressing the global challenges of ending plastic waste, taking climate action, and supporting a thriving society, while generating value for our customers, investors, and society.

As the Sr Product Safety Specialist, you provide expertise and knowledge for the chemical control legislation for all product divisions in Europe. You will assist with substance registrations, dossier maintenance, process management and legislation interpretation in such ways that all the LYB legal entities are compliant. In addition, you will be responsible for the global chemical control evaluation and approval for all raw materials and finished goods including the SAP data requirements for compliance checks and volume tracking functionality.

You anticipate and interpret complex regulatory issues and provide recommendations to business groups, sales, external customers, distributors, manufacturing facilities and R&D/technical. This position participates on external industry groups and trade associations dealing with global chemical control issues and represents Lyondell Basell before regulatory agencies as appropriate.

• Manage and resolve chemical control and Substance Volume requests for all materials globally.
• Provide chemical control expertise to all business areas, manufacturing and R&D; communicate new regulatory developments to key internal stakeholders and identify impacts to LYB.
• Assist with the registration process and data management systems for all legal entities:
  • Complete relevant steps within the registration process as performed by responsible individuals or groups to meet the timeline for the substances.
  • Serve as focal point for sample collection, initiation of analytical testing and technical review of results to support substance identification.
  • Maintain record keeping for critical information:
    • Downstream uses
    • Downstream agreements for Strictly Controlled Conditions to support intermediate registrations
    • Only Representative agreements
    • Dossier versioning and communications with regulatory authorities Letters of access for test studies
    • Assist with data management within IUCLID and other chemical control databases.
    • Assist with IT upgrades and enhancements with IUCLID and CHESAR.
    • Participate in the dossier management team meetings with toxicology, hazard communication and regional chemical control staff to share and discuss registration/evaluation priorities and consortia activities.
  • Assist with data management within IUCLID and other chemical control databases.
  • Assist with IT upgrades and enhancements with IUCLID and CHESAR.
• Assist with consortium communication.
• Assist with customer and supplier communication for end use compliance.
• Assist in the preparation of responses to ECHA and member states inquiries as required.
• Participate in the preparation for the manufacturing focal point network meetings, involving regular meetings to update the network on regulatory changes, provide training and address questions or concerns for site compliance.
• Familiar with the budget process and understand registration fees for all substances.
• Responsible for the global chemical control evaluation and approval for all European raw materials and finished goods, including SAP data requirements for compliance checks and volume tracking functionality.

• BSc/MSc technical degree (i.e., chemistry, engineering or an Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) discipline).
• Minimum 5 years specific functional experience in the areas of regulatory,…