Global Lead Auditor

COWI; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering consultancy in the UK is seeking a passionate Global Lead Auditor dedicated to driving meaningful impact within the organization. In this hybrid role, you will fulfill audit plans, improve procedures to meet ISO standards, and communicate audit results effectively. The ideal candidate will have a relevant degree, extensive auditing experience, and strong project management skills, contributing to a culture of continuous improvement. Join a team that values collaboration and innovation.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in auditing, preferably with 2 years in project management.
• Experience with improvement techniques, training or coaching.
• Professional proficiency in English is required.

Responsibilities

• Fulfil annual audit plans covering safety, technical, financial and managerial aspects.
• Improve procedures to meet ISO requirements.
• Communicate audit results to stakeholders and manage non-compliances.

Skills

Auditing skills

Project management

Analytical skills

Lean / Six Sigma methodologies

Communication skills

Education

Relevant degree in engineering

Job description

Overview

Are you a passionate and forward-looking Global Lead Auditor seeking to drive meaningful impact as a strategic partner within our organisation? Do you want a distinctive role that is fully dedicated to auditing, free from commercial deliverable obligations? If so, this is your opportunity to join our Global Lead Auditor team and contribute to the highest level.

Create solutions that enable a better tomorrow

As a part of our team of Global Lead Auditors, you will join a group of highly skilled experts and perform full-time auditing while also collaborating with colleagues across COWI’s global Process and Quality team.

This is a hybrid role within the UK. Depending on your location, you will be connected to one of our UK offices in London, Bristol, Derby, York, or Glasgow. You will report to the Process and Quality Director, based at COWI’s headquarters in Lyngby, Denmark.

You will be entrusted with the responsibility and mandate to audit COWI projects, and line management, across the globe within COWIs management systems. You will support projects to achieve spotless production by increased user adoption of our tools and processes. Moreover, you will maintain efficient and up-to-date training material, in COWI Academy training catalogue, based on inputs and learnings from audits.

Responsibilities

• The fulfilment of annual audit plans across the organisation, covering safety, technical, financial and managerial aspects.
• Improve COWIs procedures & processes to meet e.g. ISO requirements in a lean, non-bureaucratic way.
• Communicate audit results to stakeholders and manage non-compliances, incl. root cause analysis.
• Leverage audit findings to identify training needs.

Qualifications

Your skills. Our team. Together, we design the future

To succeed as a Global Lead Auditor, you take part in driving change, turn resistance into motivation, and thrive in a fast-paced environment. You skillfully manage multiple priorities and stakeholders, and you are comfortable being measured against KPIs and audit targets. You approach challenges pragmatically, while maintaining a polite, motivated, and collaborative attitude. A clear and effective communicator, you navigate seamlessly across organisational levels and diverse cultural settings.

On top of that, you have :

• A relevant degree in e.g. engineering
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in auditing, preferably with at least 2 years in project management role.
• Comprehensive understanding of project management principles, including planning, execution, and monitoring.
• Significant knowledge of industry standards and regulations, such as ISO , ISO , ISO and ISO .
• Comprehensive analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify areas for improvement and make recommendations for changes to policies, processes and procedures.
• Experience with improvement techniques, training or coaching
• Experience in applying Lean / Six Sigma methodologies
• Good communication skills and professional proficiency in English is a prerequisite.