Lead Auditor

4 days ago

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom LRQA Full time

Who are LRQA?

LRQA stands for dedication to clients, market firsts, and deep expertise in risk management. We’ve grown to become a leading global assurance provider, bringing together outstanding expertise in certification, customised assurance, cybersecurity, inspection and training.

While we’re proud of our heritage, it’s who we are today that really matters, because that’s what shapes who we and our clients can become tomorrow. By staying true to our shared values and combining decades of collective experience, we support our clients in building a safer and more sustainable future.

LRQA currently operates across 50 countries, has more than 2,500 colleagues, generates £315m in revenue, and supports more than 60,000 clients across a diverse range of sectors and markets.


We are seeking a Multi discipline Auditor to join our team and play a pivotal role in expanding our market presence and ensuring client satisfaction.

Are you a dynamic professional with a passion for building strategic relationships and driving business growth?


How will you make a difference

Clients in financial services, engineering, aerospace, marine, IT, and government sectors depend on LRQA to effectively audit their management systems, providing assurance of business-critical compliance and risk management.

As well as undertaking risk-focused audits and making certification decisions yourself, you’ll call on your accomplished people skills to guide and develop other auditors, to cultivate positive client relationships and to proactively share feedback that helps us to keep improving the service we deliver.

In return, we’ll invest in your training and development to include qualification to Lead Auditor status in several management system standards.

We’ve a well-developed homeworking infrastructure for when you’re not visiting clients and have been a champion of new ways of working for many years.

The role gives you the opportunity to obtain a healthy blend of travel and visiting client sites whilst retaining the flexibility to undertake remote audits when required.


Key Responsibilities:

  • Conduct certification audits in line with relevant ISO, BRCGS or FSSC standards, conducting opening meeting to explain the audit process, preparing a report and delivering your findings.
  • Conduct audits both onsite and remotely.
  • Ultimately making certification / recommendation decisions against the relevant ISO, BRCGS or FSSC standards.
  • Build positive relationships with our customers to ensure long term business growth and identify any business development opportunities.
  • Collaborate with colleagues and stakeholders to make sure our assessment services give customers valued added support and meet all accreditation requirements.
  • Cross functional collaboration to support effective planning, maximise efficiency and deliver in line with KPI’s.
  • Customer complaint support.
  • Take responsibility for personal development, balancing work, safety and life priorities.
  • Ensure up to date with current UK ISO legislation and European Food Safety Standards as applicable to BRCGS / FSSC audits.


The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate the following:

  • Management systems background is always a plus.
  • You will need a detailed understanding of the relevant legal and regulatory framework relevant to your sector and a working knowledge of at least one, of these standards, ISO 9001, ISO 14001 or ISO 45001.
  • An understanding of how to manage and build client relationships.
  • Good verbal and written communication and decision-making skills; and be able to deliver clear audit outcomes.

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