About this role
Role Overview
- Own and continually improve the organisation’s internal audit process.
- Compile and maintain the organisation’s internal audit schedule.
- Review procedures, records, registers, logs, and other documentation within the organisation’s Business Management System to check for accuracy, completeness, efficiency, and compliance against AS9100, ISO9001, business procedures, and related defence and military standards.
- Arrange and carry out internal audits to evaluate compliance against business procedures and relevant standards, and agree the required improvement action(s) with auditees.
- Prepare reports for management highlighting internal audit findings, root causes of inefficiencies, and actionable improvement recommendations.
- Monitor the implementation and timeliness of corrective actions and verify their effectiveness.
- Escalate to senior management when improvements are not carried out or when agreed timescales are missed.
- Support retention of the organisation’s AS9100 / ISO9001 certification and continual improvement programmes by owning, managing, implementing, and reporting on the internal audit process.
- Communicate the effectiveness of continual improvement and other programmes internally by preparing the related information for senior management consideration at management review meetings.
Requirements
- Knowledge of AS9100 and ISO9001(or similar)
- Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering discipline
- CIA (Certified Internal Auditor), or other relevant auditing certifications are highly valued.
Benefits
- Half day finish on a Friday
- 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), increasing with long service and with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days
- Private medical insurance with optional family cover
- Pension scheme of up to 8% employer contribution
- Life Assurance 4x salary (flexible up to 10x)
- Group income protection
- Flexible opt-in extras such as a health care cash plan, dental insurance, gym membership, critical illness cover, cycle to work scheme, travel insurance and electric car scheme
- Employee Family Assistance Program providing mental health and wellbeing support
- Professional membership reimbursement (discretionary)