Description
We are seeking a Lead Internal Quality Auditor to join our team in Houston, Texas.
As a Lead Internal Quality Auditor, you will be responsible for maintaining business compliance with company's Quality Management System (policies, business processes) and ISO 9001/TL9000 international standards, ensuring continued certification.
Responsibilities:
- Manage and sustain Company's Quality Management System (QMS) in line with ISO 9001 / TL 9000 standards.
- Lead the Quality certification program, including coordination of third-party audits and follow-up actions.
- Plan and conduct risk-based Internal Quality Audits, track improvements, and verify effectiveness.
- Communicate audit report and results to cross-functional stakeholders; provide tangible feedback and propose changes to business processes and policies to improve quality and minimize risks.
- Provide guidance and mentoring to less-experienced staff members.
- Facilitate training, workshops, and manage the extended pool of auditors.
- Oversee documentation policies (format, control, storage), business processes and review process changes for compliance.
- Coordinate Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA) across departments.
- Ensure audit alignment, visibility of schedules, and proper recordkeeping.
- Support continuous improvement and perform other duties as assigned.
- Support company measurement submission to industry standards forum.
Education and Experience Required:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Quality Management, Business Management, Engineering, Computer Sciences, or equivalent.
- Audit/assessment certification required.
- Typically 4-6 years experience.
Knowledge and Skills:
- Using audit and assessment processes, tools and software packages to gather, integrate and analyze data from multiple sources.
- Strong analytical, statistics and problem solving skills.
- Understanding of industry quality standards and methodologies.
- Must have: Strong knowledge of ISO 9001 requirements and application.
- Nice to have: Awareness of TL9000 standards and practices.
- Using empirical and root-cause analysis, modeling, and testing methodologies to validate compliance with quality standards.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; mastery in English and local language.
- Ability to effectively communicate quality audit reports and results and negotiate options at management levels.
What We Can Offer You:
- Health & Wellbeing: We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
- Personal & Professional Development: We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are.
- Unconditional Inclusion: We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness.