EHS & Operations Compliance Auditor

Primary Recruiting Services; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive

401(k) match

Employee stock purchase program

PTO

Relocation assistance

Office near major airport

Job summary

Primary Recruiting Services has been engaged by a publicly traded power generation company to fill a newly created internal audit position on their oversight team. The seat focuses on operational and regulatory auditing of generating facilities, not financial reporting.

You will own the facility audit program from planning through reporting, perform risk assessments, design testing, conduct fieldwork on site, and report findings to site and corporate leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Environmental Science, Occupational Safety, Accounting, Finance, or related field
• 3+ years in EHS compliance, industrial/plant operations, reliability engineering, or operational auditing
• Ability to scope and execute a risk-based audit independently
• Working knowledge of safety program requirements and environmental regulations
• Comfort operating in an active facility with PPE and associated hazards
• Preferred: CSP/CIH/CHMM/ISO 14001/45001 Lead Auditor/ CIA/ CPA or plant ops cert
• Preferred: SAP/Maximo or CMMS; analytics tools like Power BI

Responsibilities

• Own the facility audit program from planning through reporting
• Build quarterly risk assessments to select sites for review
• Design testing approach and conduct fieldwork on location
• Deliver findings to site and corporate stakeholders
• Serve as auditor-in-charge on projects and report to head of internal audit
• Travel roughly one week per quarter to multiple sites

Skills

EHS compliance

Operational auditing

Risk-based auditing

Data analysis

Walkdowns

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Environmental Science/Occupational Safety/Accounting/Finance

Tools

Power BI

SAP

Maximo

Job description

Primary Recruiting Services has been engaged by a publicly traded power generation company to fill a newly created position on their internal audit team. The seat is dedicated entirely to auditing their generating facilities. This is not a financial reporting or SOX role, it is operational and regulatory compliance auditing for someone who understands how plants actually run.

The work

You'll own the facility audit program from planning through reporting. Each quarter you build the risk assessment that determines which sites get reviewed, align that plan with regional operations leadership, design the testing approach, run fieldwork on location, and deliver findings to site and corporate stakeholders. Subject matter spans occupational safety programs, environmental compliance, maintenance and reliability practices, outage readiness, and adherence to industry reliability standards including NERC.

Day to day you'll partner closely with EHS and engineering teams, pull and analyze data from maintenance management systems, environmental monitoring platforms, and incident reporting, and conduct walkdowns to confirm that documented procedures hold up in practice. You'll serve as auditor-in-charge on your projects and report to the head of the internal audit function.

Travel runs roughly one week per quarter across several sites, and the schedule is built by you rather than dictated to you.

Background we're looking for

• Bachelor's degree - Engineering, Environmental Science, Occupational Safety, Accounting, Finance, or a related field
• Three or more years in EHS compliance, industrial or plant operations, reliability engineering, or operational auditing
• Ability to scope and execute a risk-based audit independently, not just work a checklist someone else wrote
• Working command of safety program requirements, environmental regulations, and maintenance and reliability practices
• Comfortable in an operating facility - stairs, ladders, heat, noise, and full PPE
• Helpful but not required: CSP, CIH, CHMM, ISO 14001 or 45001 Lead Auditor, CIA, CPA, or a plant operations certification
• Helpful but not required: SAP, Maximo or comparable CMMS, and analytics tools such as Power BI

Utility experience is not a requirement. If you've done this work in refining, chemicals, midstream, mining, metals, industrial manufacturing, or as a consultant auditing those facilities it carries over directly.

Why it's worth a call

Newly created headcount driven by growth, not a replacement hire. Genuine ownership of your projects in a group that doesn't operate like a conventional audit department. Regular exposure to operations executives. Clear progression to senior auditor and eventually audit management. Competitive annual incentive with a strong payout history, generous 401(k) match, employee stock purchase program, and solid PTO. Relocation support available for the right person. Office sits minutes from a major airport, which matters given the travel.