Senior ISO Auditor

Graphcore; Bristol; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI compute company in Bristol is seeking an experienced audit professional to lead the internal audit program across various ISO standards. This includes managing audit planning, conducting root cause analyses, and supporting corrective actions to ensure compliance and continuous improvement. Candidates should have a strong background in audit practices, excellent communication skills, and the ability to collaborate across teams. The role offers competitive salary and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Flexible working

Generous annual leave policy

Private medical insurance

Health cash plan

Dental plan

Pension (matched up to 5%)

Life assurance

Income protection

Parental leave policy

Qualifications

• Significant experience conducting or supporting internal audits.
• In-depth understanding of ISO standards related to Quality Management, Information Security, etc.
• Strong coordination and follow-up skills.

Responsibilities

• Plan, deliver, and maintain the internal audit programme.
• Collaborate on the corrective and preventive action process.
• Monitor audit findings and process metrics.

Skills

Audit planning

ISO 9001

ISO/IEC 27001

Root cause analysis

Communication skills

Education

Experience with internal audits

Trained to lead auditor or equivalent

Tools

Audit tools

Quality dashboards

Job description

Overview

We are seeking an experienced audit professional to lead and deliver the internal audit programme across the Integrated Management System (IMS), ensuring risk-based audit planning, robust management of corrective actions and driving measurable continuous improvement across quality, safety, security, and continuity domains. Working in a technically challenging, fast paced environment you will enable Graphcore to scale to build the world's most advanced AI systems.

The Team

The Graphcore Quality Team delivers outstanding customer experience and champions sustainable excellence throughout Graphcore. We are responsible for customer, supply chain and product quality, as well as organisational compliance, governance and assurance. You will be joining a diverse team of experts in these domains based in our Bristol, Cambridge (UK) and Hsinchu (Taiwan) offices.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Plan, deliver, and maintain the internal audit programme covering ISO 9001 (Quality Management)
• ISO/IEC 27001 (Information Security)
• ISO 45001 (Occupational Health & Safety)
• ISO 22301 (Business Continuity)
• Coordinate the other qualified auditors within the organisation to deliver on the programme, ensuring that all layer 1, 2 and 3 audits are completed in a timely manner
• Collaborate with audit action owners to manage the end-to-end corrective and preventive action (CAPA) process, ensuring issues are effectively tracked, closed, and verified
• Facilitate root cause analysis activities and work cross-functionally to implement sustainable solutions
• Monitor audit findings, process metrics, and incident trends to identify improvement opportunities
• Coordinate and contribute to management reviews with audit data, trends, and risks
• Support teams in embedding a continuous improvement mindset and ensuring IMS effectiveness
• In-depth understanding of theory and practice of ISO 9001 and at least one of the following standards: ISO/IEC 27001, ISO 45001, or ISO 22301
• Significant experience conducting or supporting internal audits (trained to lead auditor or equivalent)
• Strong coordination and follow-up skills; comfortable chasing actions and driving resolution
• Skilled in problem-solving techniques (e.g. 5 Whys, Ishikawa, A3)
• Excellent communication and collaboration across technical and non-technical teams

Desirable

• Exposure to multi-standard IMS environments
• Experience in a technology, software development, manufacturing, or high-compliance sector
• Familiarity with audit tools, risk registers, or quality dashboards
• Experience evaluating business maturity utilising the EFQM model

Graphcore is one of the world's leading innovators in Artificial Intelligence compute. It is developing hardware, software and systems infrastructure that will unlock the next generation of AI breakthroughs and power the widespread adoption of AI solutions across every industry.

As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the world's most transformative technologies. Together, they share a bold vision: to enable Artificial Super Intelligence and ensure its benefits are accessible to everyone.

Graphcore's teams are drawn from diverse backgrounds and bring a broad range of skills and perspectives. A melting pot of AI research specialists, silicon designers, software engineers and systems architects, Graphcore enjoys a culture of continuous learning and constant innovation.

In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers flexible working, a generous annual leave policy, private medical insurance and health cash plan, a dental plan, pension (matched up to 5%), life assurance and income protection. We have a generous parental leave policy and an employee assistance programme (which includes health, mental wellbeing, and bereavement support). We offer a range of healthy food and snacks at our central Bristol office and have our own barista bar! We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences; we're committed to building an inclusive work environment that makes Graphcore a great home for everyone. We offer an equal opportunity process and understand that there are visible and invisible differences in all of us. We can provide a flexible approach to interview and encourage you to chat to us if you require any reasonable adjustments.