Chemical Compliance Administrator

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Are you an accurate person, interested to learn more about compliance of chemicals and enthusiastic to work together with experts and R&D chemical engineers on the development of safe and environmentally friendly print supplies for the professional market? Would you be interested in a job where you are supporting the compliance team in securing product safety and compliance for a variety of chemicals and products? Explore our vacancy and apply now!

Chemical Compliance Administrator

For our R&D ( 700 employees in Venlo, the Netherlands, and 500 in Poing, Germany) the department Product Quality, Safety & Environment (PQS&E) delivers an important contribution to our product development. Within this department a group of 6 experts is specialized in chemical compliance of the materials that are applied in our productive print engines and related equipment. This concerns inks, toners and other materials that are applied in our printers.

Your job as Chemical Compliance Administrator

In this role you contribute with your knowledge and skills to the compliance of all our chemical products. You keep overview of international registrations and notifications of our products, including annual reporting. You enter product data into the relevant EU databases. You provide the required safety information for the design of product label and review those labels. You make sure that all required compliance information is shared with the Canon companies worldwide. To make sure products and chemicals are and remain in compliance you cooperate intensively with your colleagues within the department, as well as the specialists in product development. Together you ensure regulatory compliance on a global level. With your accurate attitude you combine all available data and compose and register in chemical safety databases.

A good example

Within our innovation centers, Graphic Arts printers are developed to fit to the customer demands: fast, versatile and delivering beautiful prints. One of the R&D projects, for example, is developing a printer system with speeds above 150 m2/hour. It needs to print on a range of materials, varying from porous paper to flexible vinyl with a high, reproducible quality regarding color and appearance. Next to the demands of these applications, the inks also need to comply to worldwide chemical legislation and internal company standards. Your job is to make sure all compliance records are filled for the inks in our next product. You know where the R&D projects that you work with are heading for. In preparation phases you work ahead for the R&D projects to prepare go-to-market. Once the final recipes are chosen, during engineering and pre-production, you will work together with your colleagues to verify if all documentation is complete, verify registrations and make the required notifications for worldwide release of the next generation Graphic Arts inks.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for a colleague with strong collaborative skills. You oversee the required documentation and support the chemical engineers in in the development process and in the market release preparations. Besides that, you:

- are accurate in your work

- are fluent in English

- have a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry

- knowledge of chemical legislation (Reach/CLP/GHS) is a pre