Lead Auditor (Food, Packaging GMP)

Nettitude Group; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Food, Packaging & GMP Auditor to join their dynamic team. This role offers a unique blend of travel and remote auditing, allowing you to build strategic relationships while ensuring compliance with essential standards. You will conduct certification audits, guide fellow auditors, and contribute to business growth through effective client engagement. The company values your development, providing opportunities for training and qualification as a Lead Auditor. If you're passionate about risk management and sustainability, this position is an exciting chance to make a meaningful impact.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in auditing across food, beverages, and packaging sectors.
• Strong knowledge of ISO, BRCGS, and FSSC standards.

Responsibilities

• Conduct certification audits in line with relevant ISO and BRCGS standards.
• Build positive relationships with customers to ensure long-term business growth.

Skills

Auditing

Risk Management

Client Relationship Management

Communication Skills

ISO Standards Knowledge

Education

Degree in Food Science or Related Field

Food Safety Certificates (HACCP Level 3, BRCGS, FSSC)

Job description

Job ID: 41408
Location: Birmingham : 1 Trinity Park : Bi
Position Category: Assessors
Position Type: Employee Regular

Who are LRQA?

LRQA stands for dedication to clients, market firsts, and deep expertise in risk management. We’ve grown to become a leading global assurance provider, bringing together outstanding expertise in certification, customised assurance, cybersecurity, inspection and training.

While we’re proud of our heritage, it’s who we are today that really matters, because that’s what shapes who we and our clients can become tomorrow. By staying true to our shared values and combining decades of collective experience, we support our clients in building a safer and more sustainable future.

LRQA currently operates across 50 countries, has more than 2,500 colleagues, generates £315m in revenue, and supports more than 60,000 clients across a diverse range of sectors and markets.

We are seeking a Food, Packaging & GMP Auditor to join our team.

Are you a dynamic professional with a passion for building strategic relationships and driving business growth?

How will you make a difference

Clients in financial services, engineering, aerospace, marine, IT, and government sectors depend on LRQA to effectively audit their management systems, providing assurance of business-critical compliance and risk management.

As well as undertaking risk-focused audits and making certification decisions yourself, you’ll call on your accomplished people skills to guide and develop other auditors, cultivate positive client relationships and proactively share feedback that helps us to keep improving the service we deliver.

In return, we’ll invest in your training and development to include qualification to Lead Auditor status in several management system standards.

We’ve a well-developed homeworking infrastructure for when you’re not visiting clients and have been a champion of new ways of working for many years.

The role gives you the opportunity to obtain a healthy blend of travel and visiting client sites whilst retaining the flexibility to undertake remote audits when required.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct certification audits in line with relevant ISO, BRCGS or FSSC standards, conducting opening meeting to explain the audit process, preparing a report and delivering your findings.
• Conduct audits both onsite and remotely.
• Ultimately making certification / recommendation decisions against the relevant ISO, BRCGS or FSSC standards.
• Build positive relationships with our customers to ensure long-term business growth and identify any business development opportunities.
• Collaborate with colleagues and stakeholders to ensure our assessment services provide valued added support and meet all accreditation requirements.
• Cross-functional collaboration to support effective planning, maximise efficiency and deliver in line with KPI’s.
• Customer complaint support.
• Take responsibility for personal development, balancing work, safety and life priorities.
• Ensure up to date with current UK ISO legislation and European Food Safety Standards as applicable to BRCGS / FSSC audits.

The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate the following:

• A good level of knowledge and experience across a range of industry sectors, including but not exclusively, food, beverages, packaging, storage / transport and consumer products.
• Extensive industry knowledge and a strong understanding of best practices. A deep understanding of your field and a clear vision of excellence.
• Degree in food science / science, a related technical field, or industry-related experience relevant to the scheme requirements for BRCGS, FSSC / GMP, typically amounting to 5 years.
• Food safety certificates are beneficial such as HACCP Level 3 minimum, BRCGS, FSSC, ISO22000.
• ISO9001 would also be preferred but not essential.

Diversity and Inclusion at LRQA:

We are on a mission to be the place where we all want to work and we are passionate about embracing different perspectives because we understand the value this brings to our business, our clients and each other. We are all about creating a safer and more sustainable future and our inclusive culture is right at the heart of our business.

Together our employees make our communities better and we want you to be part of our diverse team!

LRQA is a leading global assurance provider. The integrity and expertise we bring to our partnership with clients support their journey to a safer, more secure and more sustainable future.