Product Registration Specialist

CHS Inc. is a leading global agribusiness owned by farmers, ranchers and cooperatives across the United States that provides grain, food and energy resources to businesses and consumers around the world. We serve agriculture customers and consumers across the United States and around the world. Most of our employees are in the United States, but today we have employees in 19 countries. At CHS, we are creating connections to empower agriculture.

Summary

CHS, Inc. is hiring a Production Registration Specialist on our Agronomy Research & Development team. The Product Registration Specialsit is accountable for assisting with the development and implementation of product labels, regulatory strategies, and tactics to grow and advocate products in the CHS, Inc., and affiliated companies' product portfolio.

Responsibilities

Crop Protection Adjuvant/Pesticide/Seed treatments

• Maintain state registrations and keep portfolio current

• Provide technical review for all labels, SDS's and sell sheets

• Maintain trait approvals as needed across tank mix platforms; submit new products for testing and subsequent posting

Crop Nutrient portfolio

• Reduce redundancy of registrations among states and maintain registration conciseness moving forward. Eliminate outdated products or unique one-time products originally registered only for intended short term sale.

• Track and maintain all CN registrations and distributor licensing across all states

• Addition of new products in soil amendment and biostimulant areas of growth

• Requires review, understanding and implementation of new regulations that states will mandate for these products

• Obtain and summarize data for submission that some states will require

• Private label expansion

• Label and SDS review and approval; trait equivalency submissions

• Agrian/Telus updates

• Responsible for maintaining current labels and SDS's on Agrian/Telus

• Maintain current state registration list for each product

• Support New Product Development

• Draft SDS's and labels for experimental products

• Become proficient in new SDS program and work with hypothetical formulations to help determine best fit for customers and market

• Create CSF's for registration of new products brought to market in CHS formulations

• Expand registration of Crop Protection and Crop Nutrients portfolio into new states and territories

• Interpret, understand and comply with new regulation requirements

• Expand international registration of Crop Porfolio into new countries

• Interpret and understand international registration requirements

• Overcome communication gaps that exist between CHS and foreign countries

• AAPFCO

• Network and become more involved and influential by representing CHS, Inc.

• Comprehend regulatory and legislative initiatives that impact the regulatory environment for the industry and for CHS

• Agronomic Updates, Adjuvant Poster, Premix Poster

• Requires detailed technical review and routine updates with current market products, trends and recommendations

• Keep label and SDS files updated across all CHS platforms in appropriate folders for internal and external accessibility

• Maintain coordination and communication across pertinent departments

• Tax, Feed, CN, facility licensing, Country Operations, Marketing

Minimum Qualifications (required)

• High School diploma or GED

• 4+ years of experience in research and development or related feild

Additional Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree or equivalent experience in technical fields related to pesticides i.e. entomology, chemistry, plant pathology etc.

• Analytical Skills - Ability to use thinking and reasoning to solve a problem.

• Problem Solving - Ability to find a solution for or to deal proactively with work-related problems.

• Communication, Oral and Written- Ability to communicate effectively with others

• Time Management - Ability to utilize the available time to organize and complete work within given deadlines.

• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, including Internet Explorer, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

• Ability to work in a fast-paced multitask environment.

• Ability to build and maintain effective, professional relationships.

• Communicating ideas and solutions to problems.

• Safety Awareness - Ability to identify and correct conditions that affect employee safety.

CHS offers a competitive total rewards package. Compensation includes base wage and, depending upon position, may include other earnings such as bonus, incentives and commissions. Actual pay offered will vary based on multiple factors which may include, without limitation, experience, education, training, specialized skills and certifications, minimum wage/salary requirements under local law.

Benefits include medical, dental, vision, wellness programs, life insurance, health and dependent care spending accounts, paid time off, 401(k), pension, profit sharing, short- and long-term disability, tuition reimbursement and adoption assistance, subject to the eligibility requirements for each benefit plan.

CHS is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disability.

Please note that any communication from a CHS recruiter would be sent using a chsinc.com email address. In addition, a CHS recruiter will not ask for confidential information over the phone or in an email, or request money from a candidate involved in an offer process. If you have questions regarding an employment opportunity, please reach out to chscareers@chsinc.com ; to verify that the communication is from CHS.