Product Certification Auditor (AMR)

<p style="text-align:left">We exist to create positive change for people and the planet. Join us and make a difference too!</p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p><b>Position:</b> Product Certification Auditor (AMR – Antimicrobial Resistance)</p><p><b>Location</b>: Spain, Ireland, UK, Germany, Italy, Netherlands</p><p><b>Salary:</b> Competitive basic salary based on experience</p><p></p><p><b>Join a Global Leader in Product Certification – Celebrating 125 Years of Excellence </b></p><p></p><p>As BSI celebrates 125 years of shaping standards, inspiring trust, and helping organizations perform better, there has never been a more exciting time to join our team.</p><p></p><p>From developing the world’s first standards to becoming a globally recognised certification and assessment body, BSI has spent more than a century helping organisations achieve excellence, improve safety, and build trust in the products and services we deliver.</p><p></p><p>We are now looking for a Product Certification Auditor to play a key role in maintaining product excellence across our certification schemes and ensuring our clients maintain responsible antibiotic manufacturing practices.</p><p></p><p>We’re looking for professionals to deliver product assessment audits across our AMR Kitemark certification for minimised risk of AMR. Suitable candidates could be either experienced auditors with experience across this specialist field or those with relative exposure to standards compliance across wastewater or antibiotic waste management.</p><p></p><p></p><p>* This is a field based position that requires regular international travel, primarily within Europe.</p><p></p><p><b>Essential Responsibilities:</b></p><ul><li>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</li><li>Recommend the issue, re-issue or withdrawal of certificates, and report recommendations in accordance with BSI policy, procedures and prescribed time frame.</li><li>Maintain overall account responsibility and accountability for nominated accounts to ensure an effective partnership, whilst ensuring excellent service delivery and account growth.</li><li>Plan/schedule workloads to make best use of own time and maximise revenue-earning activity.</li><li>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)</li><li>Must be able to demonstrate knowledge and skills, to include preparation for and taking standardized assessments related to knowledge and application of audit practices</li><li>Responsible for managing a portfolio of assigned clients based on location and a match of qualifications and client contract requirements</li><li>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.</li></ul><p></p><p><b>Candidate Requirements:</b></p><ul><li>Minimum <b>2 years of relevant industry experience</b> in the <b>Pharmaceutical, Chemical, Biotechnology</b>, or similar regulated sectors. (Essential)</li><li>Additional professional qualifications such as <b>PSCI-HSE</b> or <b>PSCI Supplier Audit Training – EHS</b> are highly desirable</li><li><b>ISO 14001 auditing knowledge. </b>Lead Auditor Certification is highly desirable</li></ul><p></p><ul><li>Experience may include:<ul><li>Direct operational or technical work within these industries.</li><li>Auditing activities carried out within these sectors.</li></ul></li><li>Candidates should ideally have exposure to one or more of the following functions:<ul><li><b>Manufacturing / Production</b></li><li><b>Quality Control (QC) / Quality Assurance (QA)</b></li><li><b>Environment, Health & Safety (EHS)</b></li><li><b>Regulatory Affairs</b></li></ul></li></ul><p></p><p>This experience should provide a solid understanding of <b>end-to-end pharmaceutical manufacturing processes including waste management systems, controls, and compliance requirements</b>.</p><p></p><p></p><p><b>What we offer you:</b></p><p>BSI offers a competitive total reward package, an independent and varied job in an international environment, flexible working hours, ongoing training, and development with the inclusion of a generous benefits package and annual bonus.</p><p></p><p></p><p>#LI-GC1</p><p>#LI-REMOTE</p><p></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:left"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>About Us</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:left"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>BSI is a business improvement and standards company and for over a century BSI has been recognized for having a positive impact on organizations and society, building trust and enhancing lives.<br> <br>Today BSI partners with more than 77,500 clients in 195 countries and engages with a 15,000 strong global community of experts, industry and consumer groups, organizations and governments.<br>Utilizing its extensive expertise in key industry sectors - including automotive, aerospace, built environment, food and retail, and healthcare - BSI delivers on its purpose by helping its clients fulfil theirs.<br>Living by our core values of Client-Centricity, Agility, and Collaboration, BSI provides organizations with the confidence to grow by partnering with them to tackle society’s critical issues – from climate change to building trust in digital transformation and everything in between - to accelerate progress towards a better society and a sustainable world.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:left"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>BSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p>

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