Regulatory Affairs Associate

Job Description:

Job Title

Regulatory Affairs Associate

Collaborate with Innovative 3Mers Around the World

Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so it’s equally important you know that the company that you choose to work at, and its leaders, will support and guide you. With a wide variety of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3Mers.

This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military experience to a 3M career.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As a Regulatory Affairs Associate, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Performing technical activities leading to regulatory compliance, assessment of safety to human health and the environment, liability avoidance and product responsibility issues concerning existing or new chemicals, materials, products, hard goods, technologies, and processes
• Completing regulatory assessments and reviews for global New Product Introduction (NPI) projects and Change Management Process (CMP)
• Documenting and facilitating Lifecycle Management (LCM) and Environmental, Health, Safety and Regulatory (EHS&R) activities for new and existing products
• Working closely with internal and external customers and within the TEVB Product Stewardship team to manage enquiries on regulatory aspects of products. Example, REACH, SVHC information, RoHS, Conflict Minerals, compositional data, etc.
• Managing raw material compliance, tracking new raw materials and liaising with external suppliers for compositional information.
• Supporting compliance improvement activities through development of new processes and systems.
• Monitoring relevant emerging regulatory requirements and trends.

Your Skills and Expertise 

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a science or engineering discipline (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution
• One (1) combined year of experience in Environmental Health and Safety (EHS), Regulatory Compliance and/or Product Stewardship experience in a private, public, government or military environment

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Master’s Public Health, Materials Science or related discipline from an accredited institution
• Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS); Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH); Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) rules/regulations and requirements
• Experience with systems/business processes relevant to Regulatory or Product Responsibility, e.g. Chemical Data Management System (CDMS), Global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), and Life Cycle Management System (LCMS)

Work location:

• Hybrid Eligible (Job Duties allow for some remote work but require travel to Indianapolis at least 3 days per week)
• Indianapolis, Indiana

Travel: May include up to 15% [domestic/international]

Relocation Assistance: May be authorized

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

Responsibilities of this position may include direct and/or indirect physical or logical access to information, systems, technologies subjected to the regulations/compliance with U.S. Export Control Laws.

U.S. Export Control laws and U.S. Government Department of Defense contracts and sub-contracts impose certain restrictions on companies and their ability to share export-controlled and other technology and services with certain "non-U.S. persons" (persons who are not U.S. citizens or nationals, lawful permanent residents of the U.S., refugees, "Temporary Residents" (granted Amnesty or Special Agricultural Worker provisions), or persons granted asylum.

To comply with these laws, 3M must help assess candidates' U.S. person status.

The questions asked in this application are intended to assess this and will be used for evaluation purposes only. Failure to provide the necessary information in this regard will result in our inability to consider you further for this particular position.

Supporting Your Well-being

3M offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, 3M regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope.

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Pay & Benefits Overview: https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/careers-us/working-at-3m/benefits/

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