Forestry Auditor

PT SGS Indonesia; Jakarta Utara; On-site; IDR 200,880,000 - 334,800,000; Full time

Job summary

PT SGS Indonesia seeks an experienced forestry auditor to conduct independent audits of forest management, chain of custody, timber legality, and related forestry certification scopes, including FSC, PEFC, and SVLK. The role requires travel to client sites and proven audit-reporting skills.

You will review scope documents, prepare audit plans, assess compliance, and deliver high-quality audit reports in line with SGS standards and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Forestry, Forest Science, Environmental Science, Natural Resource Management, Geography, Geoinformatics, Biology, Ecology, or similar field.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant forestry experience and verifiable audit records.
• Current auditor or lead-auditor approval for FSC/PEFC/SVLK scopes and completed required training.
• Knowledge of silviculture, biodiversity, forest management, and timber legality.
• Current qualification and approval for deployable forestry scopes such as FSC/PEFC/SVLK.
• Verifiable log of independent audits recently delivered in approved schemes and scopes.
• Completed mandatory audit-technique training, scheme training, examinations, and witness audits.
• Ability to plan, conduct, report, and close audits independently from deployment date.

Responsibilities

• Review scope, profiles, standards, previous audits, legal requirements, maps, and sampling requirements.
• Prepare audit plans and sampling for forest units, sites, contractors, product groups, supply chains, and stakeholder consultation.
• Confirm audit-team competence, logistics, client readiness, safety controls, and conflicts of interest.
• Conduct audits of forest management units, processing facilities, traders, and other certified scopes.
• Assess silviculture, biodiversity, environmental and social safeguards, and legal compliance.
• Assess timber legality, traceability, product-group controls, and chain-of-custody controls.
• Review maps, field implementation, monitoring records, and corrective actions.
• Identify and document nonconformities with evidence and references.
• Prepare audit reports, checklists, and supporting evidence for technical review.
• Review corrective-action evidence within authorized scope and respond to queries.
• Maintain audit records and support certification processes and continual-learning qualifications.

Skills

Fluent Bahasa Indonesia

English proficiency (audit reporting)

Auditing

Interviewing

Report writing

Planning

Time management

Attention to accuracy

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Forestry or related field

Tools

Microsoft Office

Audit management systems

Job description

To conduct independent and technically competent audits of forest management, chain of custody, controlled wood, timber legality, and related forestry certification scopes, including approved FSC, PEFC, and SVLK assignments, and to deliver reliable audit conclusions in accordance with scheme, accreditation, regulatory, and SGS requirements. The position is intended for an experienced, fully qualified, and currently approved forestry auditor who can be independently deployed to chargeable client audits immediately upon joining, subject only to SGS onboarding, independence, integrity, safety, and system-access requirements.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:

Review the approved scope, forest or facility profile, applicable forestry standard, previous audit results, legal requirements, maps, management plans, and sampling requirements.

Prepare audit plans and sampling for forest units, sites, contractors, product groups, supply chains, and stakeholder consultation as applicable.

Confirm audit-team competence, logistics, client readiness, safety controls, and conflict-of-interest status before the audit.

Conduct audits of forest management units, processing facilities, traders, and other certificate scope locations within the auditor’s approval.

Assess forest management planning, silviculture, harvesting, biodiversity conservation, environmental and social safeguards, worker safety, community or customary rights, and legal compliance where applicable.

Assess timber legality, material traceability, product-group controls, volume accounting, outsourcing, labeling or claims, and chain-of-custody controls where applicable.

Review maps and geographic data, field implementation, monitoring records, complaints, stakeholder feedback, corrective actions, and management-system controls.

Identify, document, and communicate nonconformities using clear requirement references and objective evidence.

Prepare complete and timely audit reports, checklists, sampling records, stakeholder records, and supporting evidence for technical review.

Review correction and corrective-action evidence within assigned authority and respond to technical-review queries.

Maintain accurate audit records in approved systems and support certification, surveillance, recertification, scope-extension, or special-audit processes as assigned.

Maintain required FSC, PEFC, SVLK, audit-technique, witness-audit, calibration, and continual-learning qualifications for approved scopes.

PROFILE

Bachelor’s degree in Forestry, Forest Science, Environmental Science, Natural Resource Management, Geography, Geoinformatics, Biology, Ecology, or another field accepted by the applicable scheme.

Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in forestry operations, forest management, timber processing, forestry supply chains, environmental or social management, timber legality, or certification auditing, supported by verifiable employment and audit records.

Current auditor or lead-auditor approval for at least one applicable FSC, PEFC, or SVLK scope, with required audit-technique training, scheme training, trainee audits, examinations, witness audits, and formal approval already completed before joining.

Knowledge of silviculture, biodiversity, geographic data, sustainable forest management, forestry legality, chain-of-custody traceability, environmental and social safeguards, and applicable Indonesian regulations.

Hold current auditor or lead-auditor qualification and documented approval for at least one commercially deployable forestry scope, such as FSC Forest Management, FSC Chain of Custody, PEFC, and/or SVLK.

Provide a verifiable audit log demonstrating recent independent audit delivery in the approved forestry scheme and scope.

Completed all mandatory audit-technique training, scheme training, examinations, trainee audits, witness audits, and approval requirements before joining.

Able to independently plan, conduct, report, and close audits for the approved forestry scope from the date of deployment.

Approval across multiple forestry schemes or scopes is advantageous because it increases deploy ability across Forest Management, Chain of Custody, timber legality, and related assignments.

REQUIRED SKILLS

Fluent in Bahasa Indonesia and working proficiency in English, including audit reporting and client communication.

Strong auditing, interviewing, evidence evaluation, report writing, planning, and time-management skills.

High attention to technical accuracy, traceability, confidentiality, impartiality, and document control.

Ability and willingness to travel extensively and work in plantations, forests, mills, processing sites, warehouses, and other field locations as assigned.

Proficient in Microsoft Office and able to use SGS-approved audit, reporting, and document-management systems.