Ethical Auditor (CSCA / Full-Time)

QIMA; Remote; ZAR 300 000 - 500 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading inspection company seeks candidates for auditing manufacturing sites to ensure compliance with various standards. You will conduct audits without warning, focusing on labor rights, health and safety, and environmental security. Qualifications include a higher education degree in a relevant field, APSCA registration, and strong knowledge in international auditing standards. This role demands integrity and attention to detail as your reports can significantly impact supplier operations.

Qualifications

• Higher education degree in a relevant major.
• APSCA registration at CSCA level is mandatory.
• Strong knowledge of international auditing standards.

Responsibilities

• Audit manufacturing sites for compliance with labor rights and safety standards.
• Document findings in detailed reports for clients.
• Provide expertise in client meetings to improve quality control.

Skills

Knowledge of SA8000

Knowledge of ISO14001

Experience in 3rd party auditing

Strong command of English

Experience in Agricultural Audit

Education

Higher education degree in Engineering, Law, Economics, or related

APSCA registered at CSCA level

Job description

This position is available for candidates who are based anywhere within South Africa.

At QIMA, we’re on a mission to help our clients make products consumers can trust.

Working with over 30,000 global brands, retailers, manufacturers and food growers, we are on the ground wherever products are made. We help businesses secure every step of their supply chain with quality inspections, supplier audits, certifications, and lab testing, all powered by our intelligent digital platform.

Our team of 5,000 QIMers (and counting) across 40 offices and laboratories, are united in our shared passion for innovation and integrity, and guided by our QIMA values in the decisions we make every day. We believe in the work we do, and in making a positive difference in the world. Does this sound like something you’d like to be a part of?

Our Consumer Goods Division is dedicated to helping brands, retailers and manufacturers worldwide deliver safe, quality and ethically made products to their consumers. Every day at work, our inspectors, auditors, and lab techs use their expertise to help safeguard the products you use every day in your home: from clothes and footwear to toys and baby products, to electronics, appliances, and furniture.

Our operations department’s purpose is to deliver our industry-leading services to our clients while ensuring that all the work we do is performed to the QIMA standard of quality

Job Description

You will be expected to:

• Audit the manufacturing sites of our clients’ suppliers, sometimes without warning. Your areas of attention will include labor rights, health and safety, environmental security, and others, according to the applicable international standard or the client’s in-house procedure
• Be alert to any violations, staying vigilant when dealing with factory management, and recording all your findings in detailed reports, to be delivered to the client
• Approach your job with utmost integrity, as your conduct during an audit can have lasting consequences for the supplier, factory staff, and our clients

We may also request you to:

• Provide your expertise in client meetings, to create custom quality control procedures based on their specific requirements
• Contribute your ideas for improving the quality of our Operations projects

Qualifications

It could be you, if you have:

• A higher education degree in Engineering, Law, Economics, Social Sciences or a related major
• APSCA registered at CSCA level (Mandatory)
• Strong knowledge of SA8000/ISO14001/ICTI/C-TPAT/WRAP/BSCI
• Work experience in 3rd party auditing
• Experience in Agricultural Audit
• SMETA/BSCI/SA8000/WRAP or mixed audits done in recent 12 months
• Have good command of English (spoken and written)