BSI is seeking a Product Certification Auditor to conduct product certification assessments across various manufacturing sectors, ensuring compliance with BSI's certification schemes and Kitemark standards. This field-based role is located in Scotland (Edinburgh or Glasgow) and involves extensive travel across the UK and occasional travel within Europe. The auditor will manage a portfolio of clients, lead assessment teams, and ensure high-quality service delivery while supporting BSI’s mission of shaping standards and building trust.
What You'll Do
- Prepare assessment reports and deliver findings to clients to ensure client understanding of the assessment decision and clear direction to particular items of corrective action where appropriate
- Recommend the issue, re-issue or withdrawal of certificates, and report recommendations in accordance with BSI policy, procedures and prescribed time frame
- Maintain overall account responsibility and accountability for nominated accounts to ensure an effective partnership, whilst ensuring excellent service delivery and account growth
- Lead assessment teams as required ensuring that team members are adequately briefed so that quality of service is maintained and that effective working relationships are sustained both with Clients and within the team
- Provide accurate and prompt information to support services, working closely with them to ensure that client records are up to date and complete and that all other internal information requirements are met
- Coach colleagues as appropriate especially where those members are inexperienced assessors or unfamiliar with clients' business/technology and assist in the induction and coaching of new colleagues as requested
- Plan/schedule workloads to make best use of own time and maximise revenue-earning activity
- Must be willing to go through extensive onboarding plan in order to reach Lead Assessor status through the prescribed program (based on the knowledge, skills and experience they have as well as the requirements of the appropriate schemes)
- Must be able to demonstrate knowledge and skills, to include preparation for and taking standardized assessments related to knowledge and application of audit practices
- Responsible for managing a portfolio of assigned clients based on location and a match of qualifications and client contract requirements
- Responsible for contacting clients and scheduling the visits, planning the assessments, making travel plans, conducting the assessments and reporting and managing the results in an efficient manner
What We're Looking For
- A minimum of 4 years’ industry experience gained within a product manufacturing environment and with an emphasis on quality management or product certification
- Previous experience in product assessment or auditing, against standards
- Can travel frequently across the UK and occasionally within Europe
- Knowledge of quality management system auditing practices (ISO 9001)
Nice to Have
- Ideal qualification within an engineering or manufacturing related subject
- Lead Auditor 9001 qualification would be a major advantage
Technical Stack
- ISO 9001
- Kitemark standards
- EN 1090
- CPR (Construction Products Regulation)
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive basic salary based on experience
- Bonus
- Annual Bonus
- Company Car
- Company Vehicle
- Contribution Based Pension
- Private Healthcare
- 27 Days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays
- Life Assurance
- Flexible working hours
- Ongoing training and development
Work Mode
Field based with extensive travel and potential overnight stays across Scotland & United Kingdom. Locations: Scotland (Edinburgh or Glasgow), United Kingdom.
BSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.
