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Product Stewardship Specialist: The Impact You'll Have On The Organization and World * In this role you will support global portfolio of Industrial resins including formaldehyde, phenol, UFC ...

Product Stewardship Specialist: The Impact You'll Have On The Organization and World * In this role you will support global portfolio of Industrial resins including formaldehyde, phenol, UFC ...

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How much do product stewardship jobs pay per year?

As of Sep 7, 2026, the average yearly pay for product stewardship in the United States is $159,405.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $141,000.00 and $197,000.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is product stewardship?

Product stewardship is an approach in which everyone involved in the lifecycle of a product, including manufacturers, retailers, users, and disposers, takes responsibility for minimizing the product’s environmental, health, and safety impacts. This includes designing safer products, reducing waste, ensuring proper recycling or disposal, and complying with regulations. Product stewardship aims to reduce the overall impact of products on people and the planet by considering these factors from design through end-of-life.

What are product stewardship jobs?

Product stewardship jobs involve ensuring that the manufacture, sale, and use of a product does not have an impact on the environment or the health and safety of users and others. Product stewardship professionals focus on all parts of a product's life cycle from production to end of life. The duties of a product stewardship specialist involve collecting relevant environmental and safety data. A product stewardship engineer helps design a plan to limit adverse effects during the product life cycle. Your responsibilities often include handling regulatory affairs.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a product stewardship professional?

To thrive as a Product Stewardship professional, you need a thorough understanding of regulatory compliance, product safety standards, and environmental science, often supported by a degree in chemistry, environmental science, or a related field. Familiarity with compliance management systems, chemical inventory databases, and global regulations such as REACH or TSCA is typically required. Strong attention to detail, communication skills, and the ability to collaborate across departments help drive effective product compliance strategies. These skills and qualities are essential to ensure products meet legal requirements, protect human health and the environment, and minimize organizational risk.

What are the most common challenges faced by professionals in product stewardship roles?

Product Stewardship professionals often navigate complex regulatory environments and must stay current with evolving global standards related to safety, environmental impact, and compliance. A key challenge is coordinating across multiple departments—such as R&D, legal, and supply chain—to gather accurate product data and ensure compliance throughout a product’s lifecycle. Additionally, managing product documentation and communicating requirements to both internal teams and external stakeholders requires strong organizational skills and attention to detail.

What is the difference between Product Stewardship vs Product Compliance Specialist?

AspectProduct StewardshipProduct Compliance Specialist
Required CredentialsEnvironmental or sustainability certifications, relevant degreesRegulatory or compliance certifications, technical degrees
Work EnvironmentCross-functional teams, sustainability departmentsRegulatory agencies, quality assurance teams
Employer & Industry UsageManufacturers, consumer goods, electronicsManufacturers, chemical, pharmaceutical industries
Search & Comparison IntentUnderstanding sustainability roles, environmental responsibilitiesRegulatory compliance, product safety standards

Product Stewardship focuses on managing environmental and social impacts throughout a product's lifecycle, emphasizing sustainability. Product Compliance Specialists ensure products meet legal and safety standards. While both roles involve regulatory knowledge, Product Stewardship has a broader sustainability scope, whereas Product Compliance is more focused on legal adherence.

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Infographic showing various Product Stewardship job openings in the United States as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 79% Full Time, 18% Part Time, 2% Contract, and 1% Nights. Highlights an 89% Physical, 2% Hybrid, and 9% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $159,405 per year, or $76.6 per hour.

Product Stewardship Specialist II

Westlake Corporation

Houston, TX • On-site

Full-time

Re-posted 21 days ago


Westlake Chemical rating

7.8

Company rating: 7.8 out of 10

Based on 35 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

45th of 104 rated chemical manufacturers


Job description

Westlake offers you the potential to enrich your work life and career experience in an entrepreneurial environment. We work together to enhance peoples' lives through our products and presence in the communities in which we operate.
SUMMARY
Works with others to lead and implement product regulatory compliance and materials management programs to assure that products are developed, sold, distributed, transported, used and disposed of in compliance with product compliance regulations. Such regulations include product hazard communication requirements, chemical and product inventory control regulations (i.e., TSCA, DSL, REACH, etc.) and product-related requirements (import / export permits, etc.) applicable at the global, regional, national and local levels.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Duties may include, but are not limited to the following (Product Stewardship, Regulatory Compliance focus areas):
  • Proactively and continually improves their level of knowledge about chemical regulations and pesticides.
  • Supports implementation of safety data sheet and product labeling programs and raw material introduction programs.
  • Responds to customer inquiries regarding product regulatory compliance, use, disposal and other product stewardship concerns that are global in nature. Serves to ensure consistency in handling customer inquiries across regions.
  • Develops and maintains information on safety, health and environmental hazards, intended uses and exposures for new and existing products to support risk characterization and product safety management.
  • Characterizes product risks based on information collected on hazards, intended uses, and exposures associated with the stages of a product's lifecycle.
  • Communicates health, safety and environmental measures to manage risk so that products can be designed, developed, improved, and safely used for their intended purposes.
  • Works with suppliers, customers and other value chain participants to foster product safety management and information exchange along the value chain, commensurate with risk.
  • Supports the management of chemical control compliance programs, product registrations and import and export compliance.
  • Provides regulatory and technical information to Technical, Sales and Marketing for complex local, national and international EHS regulatory and scientific matters.

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS
  • Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Environmental, or related science & 5-7 years of experience in product stewardship.
  • A preferred knowledge of relevant federal and state laws and regulations governing product safety such as EPA, FIFRA, Pesticides, Biocides, and a broad knowledge of product stewardship.
  • Must have good interpersonal and written and oral communication skills, and capable of collaborating with the business and other functions to support implementation of global product stewardship strategy, policies, standards, programs and operating procedures as applicable.
  • Demonstrate high attention to detail, take ownership and drive results.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, stand, walk and climb; use hands to touch, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, or crouch. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, and infrequently lift and/or move up to 50 lbs. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. The employee must frequently make minor decisions requiring limited judgement, general decisions in the absence of specific directions, and perform activities requiring sustained concentration.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
The noise level in the work environment is sometimes moderate when working in an office; however, some of the work may be required in the operating units, which mandates usage of required PPE including safety glasses, hearing protection, etc. May also result in exposure to outside elements and may require usage of stairs. Travel may be required occasionally.
Westlake is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristics protected by applicable legislation.
If you are an active Westlake employee (or an employee of any Westlake affiliates), please do not apply here. You will apply via the Jobs Hub application in Workday.

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