Senior Auditor Scfs

Senior Agriculture Assessor

At NSF International, our mission is to protect and improve human health. We’re a global leader in standards development, testing, auditing, certification and training. We provide these services for a diverse set of industries including food, water, health sciences, sustainability and management systems. We’re passionate about the work we do, because together, we have a broad impact on our world.

Our nearly 3,000 employees provide services in over 170 countries through our many global offices, at our client sites, from home offices and in state-of-the-art laboratories. We’re growing fast, and that’s where you come in. Come join our team.

Description

Do you have a love of all things farming, our great British agriculture industry and the quality of the food it produces?

NSF are a global certification body that operate a number of plant and animal-based assurance schemes. We audit and certify that farms meet scheme owner standards.

We have an exciting opportunity for you to join NSF as a Senior Agriculture Assessor within our Agriculture team. You will carry out assessments on farm against various Agricultural Assurance Schemes, across Arable, Product, and Livestock sectors, in accordance with documented procedures and maintain full notes of all such audits. A key part of the role would be the evaluation and active involvement in the training of assessors and on-going performance maintenance.

**What you will be doing**:
As Senior Agriculture Assessor, you will report to the Manager Audit UK and your responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

- Carrying out assessments against client specific standards
- Producing full accurate assessment reports within the timescale agreed with the customer or laid down in procedures or to the scheme requirements
- Keeping abreast of developments, issues and legislative changes pertaining to the sectors in which assessments are carried out
- Providing support and guidance to assessors at Audit Delivery request
- Undertaking short notice audits as required
- Carrying out specific project work or other tasks within Audit Delivery as agreed
- Undertaking witness audits during the onboarding programme and routine witness programme
- Facilitating shadow audits during the onboarding programme and performance monitoring programme

Qualifications
- On farm practical experience of a mixed range of enterprises
- Previous auditing experience is preferable
- Previous training background is an advantage
- Ability to travel across the UK & Ireland
- The ability to communicate with and engage with both the farming community and colleagues in a confident and patient manner whilst ensuring understanding
- Enthusiastic and energetic with a keen eye for detail and a passion to improve standards
- Ability to manage conflict/difficult situations
- Able to manage own time, plan in work and organise to meet deadlines
- General IT skills
- Preferable - BASIS Certificate in Crop Production and FACTS Certificate
- Preferable - Successful completion of a Lead Assessor course
- Preferable - Level 3 HACCP

**What NSF can offer you**:
You will be a part of a global company and will have the flexibility to manage your own time, whilst being given the opportunity to travel the UK and Ireland, meeting with a variety of stakeholders in the Agricultural industry.

Our Agriculture department audit and certify around 35,000 farms each year against a number of scheme owner standards. We pride ourselves on our customer service and our integrity. We’re growing fast, and that’s where you come in.

Work Classification: Cloud

Job: Audit and Inspection

Primary Location: GB-GB-Long Hanborough

Schedule: Full-time

Requisition Title:Senior Auditor SCFS

Job Number:FDS2384