- Professional
- Office in Cardiff
We're looking for a skilled Health, Safety, Quality & Environmental Auditor to help ensure contractors meet nationally recognised legal and compliance standards.
In this role, you'll deliver high-quality, desk-based and on-site audits, offering professional guidance to contractors while ensuring integrity and consistency across our accreditation process.
Hands-on practical experience with CDM regulations is required for this role.
Hands-on practical experience with CDM regulations is required for this role.
What that means day to day
- Deliver high-quality audits: Conduct detailed, desk-based audits of contractors’ Health & Safety, Quality, and Environmental (HSQE) management systems, policies, and procedures, ensuring alignment with nationally recognised legal and industry standards.
- Maintain audit integrity: Apply your professional judgement to assess documentation submitted by contractors, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and fairness in outcomes. Your findings contribute to a national compliance database accessed by buyers across the UK.
- Support contractor success: Proactively engage with contractors throughout the audit process, providing clear, constructive feedback on non-conformance's and helping guide them toward compliance - without compromising audit integrity.
- Work to targets: Operate in a performance-focused environment, meeting defined KPIs and productivity targets while maintaining quality and attention to detail in every assessment.
- Stakeholder engagement: Liaise with stakeholders at all levels, from Directors and Heads of Safety in large corporates to SMEs, offering expert advice and building strong working relationships.
- Conduct on-site audits: When required, travel to contractor offices or client sites to carry out in-person audits, ensuring that real-world operations align with documented procedures.
- Contribute to assessment standards: Help shape the technical content of the assessment scheme by advising on legal requirements, interpreting legislation, and recommending updates to ensure continued relevance and compliance.
- Improve internal practices: Share best practices and support continuous improvement initiatives across internal systems, documentation, and processes - helping the organisation evolve and stay ahead of industry expectations.
What you’ll need to be successful
- NEBOSH General Certificate (or equivalent)
- Membership of a relevant professional body (TechIOSH or above)
- At least 2 years' UK Health & Safety experience, ideally in the construction or supply chain sector
- Hands-on practical experience with CDM regulations is required for this role.
- Sound knowledge of H&S, environmental legislation, and ISO auditing standards
- Familiarity with procurement processes and risk in supply chain management
- Experience in quality assurance or auditing
- Strong communication skills - written, verbal, and presentation
- Ability to challenge, influence, and support professionals at all levels
- High attention to detail and data accuracy
- Analytical and confident in drawing valid conclusions from complex information
- Capable of managing a varied workload and meeting deadlines
- Comfortable working in a target/KPI-driven environment
- Collaborative mindset and commitment to high-quality customer service
What you'll get in return
This role is hybrid role with 3-days a week in Nantgarw, Cardiff.
We want you to be able to do your best work here. We emphasise providing many ways to support our team to do their best work and below are some of the perks and benefits we offer:
We want you to be able to do your best work here. We emphasise providing many ways to support our team to do their best work and below are some of the perks and benefits we offer:
Personal Health & Wellbeing / Benefits
>🍼 Enhanced Parental Leave
>🌴Generous annual leave
>🏥 Healthcare Plan
>💟 Annual Giving Day – an extra day to give back to yourself or your community
>🚲 Cycle-to-work Scheme
Future Planning
>💰Pension scheme with employer contributions
>🧬 Life Assurance – 3X base salary
>💸 Rewards Program – access to discounts and cashback
>🏫 LinkedIn Learning License for upskilling & development
Interested but don’t feel you meet all the requirements?
Our recruitment team assesses and reviews all applications against the role and business needs. We believe in people having transferable and soft skills and want you to know that we do consider where an individual might not meet all the criteria, but have the aptitude and capability, nonetheless. Our priority is to ensure we set people up for success. We will make a final call based on our determining whether we can offer the necessary support to upskill or provide the developmental support needed for you to get the best out of this opportunity with us!
Bring Your Whole Self to Work.
Bring Your Whole Self to Work.
We are proudly an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to ensuring that no candidate is discriminated against because of gender identity and expression, race, disability, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, colour, region, creed, national origin, or sex. We are dedicated to growing a diverse team while continuing to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels safe and empowered to be themselves.
What you can expect if you apply:
What you can expect if you apply:
- A response to your application within 15 working days
- An interview process consisting of:
- An initial discovery call with the recruiter
- A first stage interview via Microsoft Teams
- Additional interview (likely face to face) with the stakeholders you’ll be working with closely in the role
We’re keen to ensure our hiring process allows you to be at your best, so if you need us to make any adjustments, please just let us know.
