HSEQ Auditor

We have a fantastic role for an experienced HSEQ Auditor or Practitioner to join our customer-focused, forward-thinking auditing team.

Located within the Midlands or North of England, you will be responsible for delivering high quality, cost-effective audits within the Utilities and Construction sectors, helping our customers to mitigate risks within their supply chain.

The role will be home-based with an element of travel to sites to meet with clients/customers and carry out audits.

You will have experience within a customer-facing auditing role (internal/external) and ideally have a NEBOSH General Certificate or equivalent. You must also hold a full UK driving licence.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure all audits are carried out in line with relevant industry and scheme standards.
• Ensure customers are contacted prior to the audit, in a timely fashion; confirming the audit schedule and providing information on how to prepare.
• Undertake audit preparation work and planning in readiness for on-site audits.
• Review Pre-Qualification Questionnaires (PQQ’s) in line with industry standards.
• Travel to the locations of the on-site audits within the UK and Ireland.
• Deliver scheduled on-site audits to meet targets in line with industry requirements.
• Recognise and identify non-conformities, non-compliances, observations and positive elements as part of the auditing process.
• Create and prepare detailed accurate and grammatically correct audit reports in-line with quality requirements.
• Submit completed audit reports to meet agreed community/scheme within required timeframes and service level agreements.
• Undergo annual witnessed audits and licensing.
• Provide constructive feedback to ensure the ongoing development of the schemes.
• Maintain and develop own technical competencies, skills, and knowledge of scheme rules for audit activities and required ISO standards.
• Liaise, where necessary, with clients or other interested parties to provide guidance on the content of the scheme.
• Assist in the undertaking of desktop audits where required.

What are we looking for?

• Experience within a customer-facing auditing role (internal and/or external).
• HSEQ Audit experience within the Utilities and/or Construction sectors.
• Minimum of a Tech IOSH membership.
• NEBOSH General Certificate or equivalent.
• Lead Auditor competency via examination (preferably IRCA or equivalent).
• Environmental Awareness Certificate provided by a recognised provider such as IEMA, CIEH etc.
• Full driving licence.
• Willingness to travel throughout the UK and Ireland and occasionally overseas.

Please apply if you’d like to work for a global company that is helping make the working world more sustainable, safer, cleaner and fairer, with great colleagues and a good pay and benefits package. We welcome applications from armed forces veterans, reservists and their families. We are committed to equity, diversity and inclusion in our practices and workforce.

For more than 30 years, Achilles has protected organisations’ business interests and reputations by providing unrivalled levels of supply chain transparency, carbon reduction and management. We are the ESG and carbon management partner of choice for the world’s leading global brands.

Achilles specialises in supporting customers that require truly robust environmental, social and governance reporting to fully comply with ESG regulation, meet investor requirements, and achieve their own ambitious sustainability goals.

Operating from 22 locations worldwide, Achilles is at the forefront of the battle against climate change, a champion for social justice and human rights, and an expert in health, safety, and risk management.

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