Senior Dangerous Goods Specialist

We're Hiring: Senior Dangerous Goods SpecialistLocation: United Arab Emirates (Remote)Employment Type: Full-TimeExperience Level: SeniorWork Arrangement: Fully RemoteAbout UsWe are a globally focused organization committed to maintaining safe, compliant, and reliable logistics and supply chain operations across diverse markets. Our teams collaborate across Transportation, Warehousing, Procurement, Operations, Quality, Safety, Compliance, Security, and external logistics partners to manage complex movements of goods efficiently and responsibly.
Our operations require strong controls for regulated and hazardous materials, with particular focus on classification, packaging, documentation, handling, storage, transportation, emergency preparedness, and regulatory compliance.
The RoleWe are seeking an experienced Senior Dangerous Goods Specialist to lead dangerous goods compliance, classification, documentation, packaging, labeling, transportation requirements, operational controls, training, audits, and risk management across logistics activities.
The ideal candidate will provide specialist guidance on the safe and compliant movement of dangerous goods by applicable transportation modes, working closely with logistics providers, warehouse teams, carriers, suppliers, customers, regulators, and internal stakeholders to prevent incidents and ensure regulatory requirements are consistently met.

Key Responsibilities
Develop and implement dangerous goods policies, standards, procedures, and compliance frameworks.
Establish controls for the classification, packaging, labeling, marking, documentation, handling, storage, and transportation of dangerous goods.
Provide specialist advice on dangerous goods requirements across air, sea, road, rail, and multimodal transportation where applicable.
Interpret applicable dangerous goods regulations, technical instructions, codes, standards, and regulatory requirements.
Monitor changes to dangerous goods regulations and assess their operational impact.
Translate regulatory changes into updated procedures, training requirements, operational controls, and dangerous goods according to applicable regulatory frameworks and transport requirements.
Review Safety Data Sheets, technical specifications, product information, and other documentation required for appropriate dangerous goods descriptions, classifications, packing groups, labels, marks, and transport requirements.
Review dangerous goods declarations and shipping documentation for completeness and accuracy.
Establish requirements for shipper's declarations, transport documents, manifests, emergency information, and other required records.
Review dangerous goods documentation prepared by suppliers, warehouses, freight forwarders, carriers, and internal teams.
Ensure dangerous goods shipments meet applicable packaging requirements.
Review packaging specifications, packaging approvals, compatibility, quantity limitations, and performance requirements.
Ensure packages are appropriately marked and labeled before controls for overpacks, combination packages, limited quantities, excepted quantities, and other applicable shipment requirements for radioactive, infectious, corrosive, flammable, toxic, oxidizing, explosive, and other regulated materials where applicable.
Coordinate dangerous goods requirements for lithium batteries, dry ice, chemicals, fuels, aerosols, gases, laboratory materials, and other regulated products.
Establish procedures for accepting dangerous goods shipments into warehouses and transportation networks.
Develop dangerous goods acceptance-check processes and operational checklists.
Review shipment eligibility, quantity limits, packaging requirements, documentation, and carrier restrictions before with carriers and freight forwarders regarding dangerous goods acceptance requirements and restrictions.
Maintain approved-carrier and service-provider requirements for dangerous goods dangerous goods compliance assessments of logistics providers, warehouses, suppliers, and other partners.
Monitor third-party provider performance against dangerous goods compliance standards and service requirements.
Investigate dangerous goods shipment discrepancies, documentation errors, packaging failures, labeling issues, and transportation incidents.
Lead or support investigations into dangerous goods spills, leaks, exposures, fires, misdeclarations, rejected shipments, and other incidents.
Conduct root-cause analysis and develop corrective and preventive actions.
Track corrective actions through closure and verify their effectiveness.
Establish escalation procedures for dangerous goods emergencies and compliance incidents.
Develop emergency-response procedures for spills, leaks, damaged packages, transportation accidents, exposure incidents, fires, and other hazardous-material events.
Coordinate with Safety, Security, Emergency Response, Operations, and relevant authorities during dangerous goods incidents.
Maintain dangerous goods emergency-response informa