Quality Auditor

The Role: An opportunity has arisen for a Quality Auditor who can manage local BMS for all Power Grid business lines and drive improvement throughout the organisation. The role requires a team player, able to demonstrate initiative, enthusiasm and determination with a passion for improvement and internal auditing to ISO standards. Based predominately in Stone, with occasional travel to customer sites, this is a fantastic opportunity to work for a business employing over 140,000 people that's renowned for its training, development and cutting edge projects; most notably within HVDC, holding 70% of all VSC links internationally. So what are your main accountabilities? Working with the Country Quality & CI manager and the rest of the business units to review the current BMS documentation and processes to ensure compliance with the ISO and other relevant standards. Leading ISO and other standards certification audits. Attending meetings with departments to improve business processes and procedures Develop a clear communication plan on auditing managing a variety of stakeholders and their expectations Improve BMS reviewing all associated documentation Designing and maintaining an internal audit schedule for all of Power Grids Businesses Performing audits against the internal audit plan on business activities Follow up non-conformances to closure Liaise with the CI team on where opportunities for improvement are identified Providing support and guidance to management on how to handle BMS issues Preparing BMS reports for management tracking Day to day management of the BMS system and updates Undertake any other reasonable duties and responsibilities as may be required. The successful candidate will be an experienced ISO auditor ideally with experience in a project management organization You will have worked on the implementation of the ISO standards, be a minimum qualified internal auditor and have experience of continuous improvement activities. The Company: Our client is an Engineering Services company, who are an international technical consultancy, providing a range of services including licence to operate, asset management, manufacturing improvement and capital investment to customers in the chemical, petrochemical, oil & gas, pharmaceutical, manufacturing and consumer industries worldwide Essential Skills / Qualifications: In depth knowledge of ISO 9001 and capable of not just maintaining but re aligning the BMS to meet changes in the ISO standards. Able to work independently and under pressure, high ownership sense, proactive working style Good team player Good verbal and written communication skills being able to communicate at all levels within the organization Experience of process mapping and implementing, monitoring & improving processes Key influencer in driving Quality through an organisation A good level of IT literacy Desirable Skills / Qualifications: Six sigma qualification. Nationally recognised Quality qualifications with membership of an appropriate Institute preferred Knowledge of Health, safety and environmental considerations is preferred Electricity Supply Industry, Nuclear Industry, Rail Industry Experience Experience in project management environment Good understanding of improvement tools such as Lean, SIX SIGMA, Continuous Improvement About Fircroft: Fircroft has been placing people in specialist technical industries for approaching half a century, focusing on mid to senior level engineers for contract and permanent roles worldwide. By applying for this job you give consent for Fircroft to contact you, via email & telephone, to discuss your application along with future positions and Fircroft's services. Fircroft is registered as a Data Controller with the Information Commissioner as required under the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679. Fircroft will only process your personal data for the specific purposes of managing your application.