SDS Specialist

The Opportunity

The SDS Specialist supports the creation, maintenance, and distribution of accurate Safety Data Sheets and related product-stewardship records for Neogen products. Working within established procedures and under general guidance, this role gathers and validates product, formulation, supplier, and regulatory information; maintains records in approved systems; and partners with Product Engineering, Quality, Regulatory, EHS, Dangerous Goods, Logistics, and other stakeholders to support compliant product changes and new-product readiness.

This role is designed for an early-career professional who performs defined assignments, applies foundational technical knowledge, escalates complex issues, and builds proficiency in global hazard communication and SDS processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Create, revise, publish, and maintain accurate Safety Data Sheets using approved tools, templates, and procedures.
• Collect and validate formulation, raw-material, supplier, product, and regulatory data; identify gaps and escalate complex classifications or interpretations.
• Maintain product-to-SDS mappings, revision history, source documentation, and related records in approved systems.
• Coordinate SDS updates resulting from product, formulation, supplier, labeling, or regulatory changes and communicate impacts to affected teams.
• Support routine requests, new-product readiness, audits, data cleanup, metrics, training, and process improvements.
• Collaborate with Product Engineering, Quality, Regulatory, EHS, Dangerous Goods, Logistics, Operations, and Commercial teams to resolve assigned issues.
• Complete defined work under general supervision, make routine decisions within documented procedures, and own the accuracy and timeliness of assigned deliverables.
• Follow applicable quality, document-control, record-retention, confidentiality, and safety requirements.

Professional Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in chemistry, toxicology, environmental health and safety, regulatory affairs, product stewardship, biology, chemical engineering, or a related scientific or technical field; or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Zero to two years of relevant professional, internship, laboratory, quality, regulatory, EHS, chemical-data, or product-stewardship experience.
• Exposure to Safety Data Sheets, Globally Harmonized System hazard communication, chemical nomenclature, or regulatory databases is preferred.
• Experience with SDS authoring software or enterprise product-data systems is preferred.