Are you a passionate and forward-looking Global Lead Auditor seeking to drive meaningful impact as a strategic partner within our organisation? Do you want a distinctive role that is fully dedicated to auditing, free from commercial deliverable obligations? If so, this is your opportunity to join our Global Lead Auditor team and contribute to the highest level.
Create solutions that enable a better tomorrow
As a part of our team of Global Lead Auditors, you will join a group of highly skilled experts and perform full-time auditing while also collaborating with colleagues across COWI’s global Process and Quality team.
This is a hybrid role within the UK. Depending on your location, you will be connected to one of our UK offices in London, Bristol, Derby, York, or Glasgow. You will report to the Process and Quality Director, based at COWI’s headquarters in Lyngby, Denmark.
You will be entrusted with the responsibility and mandate to audit COWI projects, and line management, across the globe within COWIs management systems. You will support projects to achieve spotless production by increased user adoption of our tools and processes. Moreover, you will maintain efficient and up-to-date training material, in COWI Academy training catalogue, based on inputs and learnings from audits.
Your key responsibilities will be to:
1. The fulfilment of annual audit plans across the organisation, covering safety, technical, financial and managerial aspects.
2. Improve COWIs procedures & processes to meet e.g. ISO requirements in a lean, non-bureaucratic way.
3. Communicate audit results to stakeholders and manage non-compliances, incl. root cause analysis.
4. Leverage audit findings to identify training needs.
Your skills. Our team. Together, we design the future
To succeed as a Global Lead Auditor, you take part in driving change, turn resistance into motivation, and thrive in a fast-paced environment. You skillfully manage multiple priorities and stakeholders, and you are comfortable being measured against KPIs and audit targets. You approach challenges pragmatically, while maintaining a polite, motivated, and collaborative attitude. A clear and effective communicator, you navigate seamlessly across organisational levels and diverse cultural settings.
On top of that, you have:
5. A relevant degree in e.g. engineering
6. Minimum of 5 years of experience in auditing, preferably with at least 2 years in project management role.
7. Comprehensive understanding of project management principles, including planning, execution, and monitoring.
8. Significant knowledge of industry standards and regulations, such as ISO, ISO, ISO and ISO .
9. Comprehensive analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify areas for improvement and make recommendations for changes to policies, processes and procedures.
10. Experience with improvement techniques, training or coaching
11. Experience in applying Lean/Six Sigma methodologies
12. Good communication skills and professional proficiency in English is a prerequisite.