The Quality, Safety & Compliance Auditor is responsible for evaluating, auditing, and improving the effectiveness of GHX Industrial's quality, safety, and compliance programs across all operating locations. This position serves as a field-based resource supporting ISO 9001 compliance, safety program implementation, corrective actions, root cause investigations, and continuous improvement initiatives.
The role will partner closely with branch management, regional leadership, and the corporate Quality, Safety, and Compliance team to ensure company standards are consistently implemented, documented, and sustained throughout the organization. Significant travel is required.
Role and Responsibilities
- Conduct branch-level safety audits across all operating locations.
- Evaluate compliance with company safety policies, OSHA requirements, and established corporate standards.
- Verify implementation of safety programs, training requirements, inspections, and corrective actions.
- Review branch safety performance and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Follow up on audit findings to ensure timely closure of corrective actions.
- Conduct ISO 9001 internal audits and surveillance activities.
- Assess branch compliance with quality procedures, work instructions, and documented processes.
- Support branch preparation for external certification audits.
- Verify effectiveness of corrective and preventive actions resulting from audit findings.
- Evaluate implementation of quality management system requirements.
- Lead investigations related to customer complaints, safety incidents, process failures, and quality nonconformances.
- Facilitate root cause analysis using structured problem-solving methodologies.
- Develop and track corrective and preventive actions.
- Verify effectiveness of implemented actions and prevent recurrence.
- Support branches in documenting and resolving NCRs, CARs, RMAs, and other quality issues.
- Participate in supplier audits and supplier performance evaluations.
- Support vendor qualification activities.
- Assist with preventive maintenance verification and process compliance reviews.
- Identify trends, recurring issues, and opportunities for operational improvement.
- Recommend best practices and standardized approaches across locations.
- Assist branches with implementation of quality and safety requirements.
- Coach branch managers and supervisors on audit findings and corrective actions.
- Support training verification and competency validation activities.
- Reinforce operational ownership of safety and quality systems.
Safety Auditing & Verification
Quality System Auditing
Root Cause Analysis & Corrective Action
Supplier & Process Improvement Support
Training & Implementation Support
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in quality, safety, operations, manufacturing, industrial distribution, or related fields.
- Experience conducting audits, investigations, inspections, or compliance reviews.
- Strong understanding of root cause analysis and corrective action processes.
- Experience working in industrial, manufacturing, distribution, hose assembly, fluid power, fabrication, or related environments preferred.
- ISO 9001 auditing experience preferred.
- OSHA and workplace safety experience preferred.
- Strong communication, coaching, and organizational skills.
- Ability to travel approximately 50% of the time.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience in quality, safety, operations, manufacturing, industrial distribution, or related fields
- Experience conducting audits, investigations, inspections, or compliance reviews
- Strong understanding of root cause analysis and corrective action processes
- Experience working in industrial, manufacturing, distribution, hose assembly, fluid power, fabrication, or related environments
- ISO 9001 auditing experience
- OSHA and workplace safety experience
- Strong communication, coaching, and organizational skills
- Ability to travel approximately 50% of the time
SunSource Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about SunSource and has not been reviewed or approved by SunSource.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare Strength: Medical, dental, and vision coverage with plan options are offered alongside wellness programs and an EAP. Offerings also include HSA/HRA and FSA choices that broaden the health coverage scope.
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Retirement Support — Retirement Support: A 401(k) with company match is included and called out in employer-provided materials. This provides a clear foundation for long-term savings within the total rewards package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave & Time Off Breadth: Paid vacation and holidays are part of the package, with PTO described as decent and vacation potentially capping near four weeks. These time-off elements contribute to a rounded core benefits menu.
SunSource Insights
What We Do
SunSource, a leader in industrial and mobile fluid power distribution for over 85 years, provides customers with innovative solutions that help reduce maintenance costs, lower operating costs and increase productivity. The solutions are part of the SunSource Advantage: a comprehensive program offering design and engineering support; supply chain optimization; productivity solutions; value-added services; and repair capabilities. As a national distributor with local presence, SunSource has a unique and dominant position as a full-service resource for the industrial, OEM, MRO and mobile industrial equipment industries. We distribute a broad range of components, but SunSource is much more than a distributor just supplying fluid power components or systems. Along with high-quality products, we provide a commitment to high-quality customer service and technically sound, cost-effective solutions. SunSource’s history of accomplishment and continued growth means that we give the best condition to energetic, driven people to be effective in their role. We pride ourselves on a culture that provides opportunities for development and advancement of our associates. In addition, we build meaningful relations with our customers, suppliers and internal associates. We are all bound by a pledge to a common mission toward providing the highest quality products and services within our industry and achieving the company’s growth objectives
