Program Specialist Jobs in Pennsylvania

Position Summary

The Regulatory Compliance Program Lead provides strategic leadership for Parker LORD’s global Transportation, Waste, and Packaging Compliance programs. This role is responsible for developing governance frameworks, establishing standardized business processes, monitoring emerging regulatory requirements, and ensuring global compliance across product transportation, product-related waste guidance, and packaging regulations.

This roles establishes enterprise governance frameworks, implementation strategies, and serves as the functional owner for enterprise transportation and packaging compliance programs, partnering with Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Product Development, Packaging Engineering, Procurement, Global Trade, EHS, Sustainability, and Commercial teams to reduce regulatory risk while enabling business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Hazardous Materials/Dangerous Goods Compliance
  • Provide enterprise governance and strategic direction for Parker LORD’s global hazardous materials and dangerous goods transportation compliance program.
  • Serve as the technical authority for applicable transportation regulations, including 49 CFR, IATA, IMDG, TDG, ADR, and other applicable global transportation requirements.
  • Develop enterprise transportation policies, procedures, guidance documents, and governance standards.
  • Lead transportation compliance assessments, investigations, corrective actions, and continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Evaluate regulatory impacts of new products, formulation changes, alternate sourcing, manufacturing transfers, and logistics changes.
  • Maintain transportation compliance metrics and ensure audit-ready documentation.
• Hazardous Waste Compliance Support
  • Own product-related waste guidance, including governance, standardized business processes, standardized regulatory disclosure processes and regulatory interpretation.
  • Develop and maintain standardized procedures supporting waste characterization requests and customer waste inquiries.
  • Provide technical guidance regarding product-related hazardous waste regulations and disposal considerations based on available product information.
  • Partner with manufacturing facilities, EHS, Legal, and third-party waste vendors to support complex product waste-related regulatory questions.
  • Monitor changes in federal, state, provincial, and international waste regulations and implement required program updates.
• Packaging Compliance Program
  • Establish and implement the enterprise strategy for compliance with emerging packaging regulations, including Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), and other emerging packaging requirements.
  • Partner with Packaging Engineering, Sustainability, Product Development, Supply Chain, and Procurement to ensure packaging designs satisfy applicable regulatory requirements.
  • Develop packaging compliance guidance, governance documentation, and implementation strategies.
  • Evaluate regulatory impacts of packaging changes and support new product introductions.
• Regulatory Strategy & Emerging Regulations
  • Monitor emerging transportation, waste, and packaging regulations.
  • Perform regulatory impact assessments and communicate implementation strategies to business stakeholders.
  • Develop scalable compliance programs supporting new regulatory requirements.
  • Provide strategic recommendations to leadership regarding regulatory risk and business readiness.
• Continuous Improvement & Operational Excellence
  • Lead process improvement initiatives across assigned regulatory programs.
  • Develop standardized work instructions, decision trees, guidance documents, and training materials.
  • Identify automation opportunities and system enhancements supporting operational efficiency.
  • Maintain audit-ready documentation and program metrics.
  • Establish governance practices that improve consistency and reduce compliance risk.
  • Develop program KPIs and monitor compliance performance to identify organizational risks and continuous improvement.
• Technical Leadership & Customer Support
  • Serve as the technical subject matter expert for transportation, waste, and packaging compliance.
  • Provide regulatory guidance to internal stakeholders and external customers.
  • Support significant customer inquiries, regulatory assessments, and commercial opportunities requiring technical interpretation.
  Develop organizational capability by mentoring Regulatory Compliance team members and providing technical training within assigned program areas.
  

Qualifications

Competencies

• Strong working knowledge of hazardous materials/dangerous goods transportation regulations, including but not limited to: 49CFR, IATA, IMDG
• Experience interpreting and implementing global regulatory requirements.
• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise regulatory programs or major compliance initiatives.
• Strong analytical, project management, and continuous improvement skills.
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams and drive organizational change without direct authority.
• Strong Excel proficiency and comfort working with large datasets .
• Strong analytical, organizational, and data management skills with sound judgment.
• Experience working with regulatory systems, SAP EH&S, SDS processes, or customer compliance platforms preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., Safety, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Regulatory Affairs, Supply Chain, or related discipline)
• 5+ years of experience in hazardous materials transportation, product stewardship, environmental compliance, packaging compliance, or related regulatory disciplines

Note: The essential functions above have been provided as examples of the type of work performed by employees assigned to this job classification. The Company reserves the right to modify the work assignments and/or to make reasonable accommodations so that qualified employees can perform the essential functions. The job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities. It is intended to describe the general nature of the position.

Conditions of Employment

This position is subject to meeting U.S. export compliance and/or U.S. Government contracting citizenship eligibility requirements.

Parker Hannifin

Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than a century, we’ve enabled engineering breakthroughs that make energy cleaner, transportation safer, medical treatments more effective, and manufacturing more efficient.

With empowered team members in more than 40 countries, Parker serves customers across aerospace & defense, energy, HVAC & refrigeration, in-plant & industrial equipment, off-highway and transportation.

Our scale is global, but our purpose is personal. We enable breakthroughs that improve lives, strengthen communities and create a brighter future.

Our Purpose — Enabling Engineering Breakthroughs that Lead to a Better Tomorrow — comes to life through our people-first culture where teamwork drives performance, inclusion fuels innovation and growth is encouraged. This environment fosters collaboration and empowers team members from engineering and manufacturing to finance, supply chain, human resources, information technology and beyond.

By combining deep expertise with an entrepreneurial spirit, we help customers succeed in markets that demand performance, reliability, and sustainability.

As we look to the future, Parker is advancing initiatives in energy efficiency and sustainability while developing the next generation of talent and leaders to engineer a better tomorrow.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Parker is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Parker is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job related reasons regardless of race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by law. However, U.S. Citizenship, Permanent Residency or other appropriate status is required for certain positions, in accord with U.S. import & export regulations.

(“Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / VEVRAA Federal Contractor”)

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Drug Tests

Drug-Free Workplace
In accordance with Parker’s policies and applicable state laws, Parker provides for a drug-free workplace. Therefore, all applicants seeking employment with Parker will be subject to drug testing as a condition of employment.