Forestry Auditor

**Company Description**
SGS is the world’s leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company. SGS is recognized as the global benchmark for quality and integrity. With more than 94,000 employees, SGS operates a network of over 2,600 offices and laboratories around the world.

SGS Business Assurance New Zealand (NZ) offers a range of services for the forestry, timber and paper industries throughout NZ including FSC Chain of Custody and PEFC Forest Management Certification.

As a Forestry Auditor you will be responsible for planning and conducting on-site audits, completing reports, delivering findings and making recommendations for certification decisions.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Undertake FSC / PEFC Chain of Custody (COC), FSC /PEFC and Forestry Management auditing services as required to SGS forestry, timber, and paper industry sector clients in accordance with relevant program, client and/or SGS requirements.
- 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.
- Recommend the issue, re-issue or withdrawal of certificates, and report recommendations in accordance with SGS policy, procedures and prescribed time frame.
- Lead assessment / audit teams as required ensuring that team members are adequately briefed so that quality of service is maintained.
- Establish and foster effective professional client relationships.

**Qualifications**
- Qualified as a Chain of Custody Lead Auditor or Forest Management Lead Auditor with experience auditing for a Certification Body is desirable but not essential.
- Have experience (or as a minimum an understanding) of Chain of Custody, Controlled Wood, FSC and PEFC
- Tertiary qualifications in Forestry and/or Forest Engineering/ Environmental preferred **or** at least minimum 4 years full time experience in Forestry or a related Industry.
- Demonstrated Forestry industry experience would need to meet SGS, FSC and/or PEFC auditor qualification requirements, as appropriate.
- Ideally have experience in auditing have (IRCA or equivalent) Lead Management Systems Auditor training and qualifications.
- Experience as Lead Auditor in conducting audits of other management systems (e.g. ISO 14001, ISO 19001, ISO 45001) would be advantage, but is not essential.

**Additional Information** WHY WORK FOR SGS?**

Working at SGS means joining an innovative, global company. Here are some of the benefits to working for SGS.
- As a company, we have embraced the shift to flexible work
- Sustainability is embedded in our culture and the way we do business
- Ongoing learning & development
- Career development opportunities (Nationally and Globally)