Global Lead Auditor

COWI; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global consultancy is seeking a Global Lead Auditor based in the UK, specifically in Glasgow. This hybrid role involves fulfilling annual audit plans, improving processes to meet industry standards, and effectively communicating audit results. The ideal candidate will have a relevant engineering degree and at least 5 years of auditing experience, along with strong analytical and problem-solving skills. This position offers a dynamic environment within a highly skilled team committed to achieving operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in auditing, preferably with at least 2 years in project management role.
• Comprehensive understanding of project management principles.
• Significant knowledge of industry standards and regulations.
• Experience with improvement techniques, training, or coaching.
• Professional proficiency in English.

Responsibilities

• Fulfill annual audit plans across the organisation.
• Communicate audit results to stakeholders and manage non-compliances.
• Identify training needs based on audit findings.
• Improve processes to meet ISO requirements.

Skills

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Project management

Stakeholder management

Lean/Six Sigma methodologies

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.