Quality QMS Auditor

POSITION SUMMARY

The Global QMS Auditor is responsible for conducting independent, risk-based assessments of global Quality Management System (QMS) processes to ensure compliance, identify systemic risks, and drive sustained process effectiveness. This role enables standardization, continuous improvement, and governance visibility across the enterprise by validating that processes are defined, deployed, executed, and effective in protecting product quality, regulatory compliance, and customer experience.

RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Plan and execute risk-based internal audits across global sites, functions, and processes to assess compliance and effectiveness.
• Evaluate process effectiveness and maturity, ensuring controls are preventive and consistently executed
• Identify systemic risks and gaps across core QMS business processes, differentiating between localized issues and enterprise-level weaknesses.
• Document and communicate audit findings with clear evidence-based observations, findings and risk prioritization. 
• Drive and verify corrective actions (RCCA/CAPA), ensuring true root cause identification and sustainable resolution. 
• Validate effectiveness of corrective actions through data, follow-up audits, and performance trends. 
• Monitor and report audit performance and systemic trends to Global Quality leadership, supporting governance and management review.
• Ensure compliance with applicable quality standards and requirements, including ISO 9001, regulatory, and customer-specific quality systems requirements
• Provide auditor training to site and functional resources to ensure consistent application of audit methodologies and QMS requirements.
• Provide support and guidance for external quality systems audits, ensuring audit readiness, effective execution, and timely, sustainable responses to findings.

QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Job Qualifications: 

• 3+ years of experience in a QMS role.
• Certified Internal Auditor
• Working knowledge of ISO-9001 standard requirements.
• Demonstrated experience conducting process-based internal audits in a global, multifunctional environment.
• Proven ability to drive sustainable corrective actions (RCCA / CAPA) and verify effectiveness.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document clear, objective audit findings.
• Proven analytical skills with the ability to identify, assess, and prioritize systemic global process risks.
• Strong proficiency in spoken and written English.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• ISO 9000 Lead Auditor Certification.
• Demonstrated capability in auditor training, coaching, and QMS capability development across site and functional quality teams.
• Experience in a global, multi-site industrial manufacturing environment.
• Strong working knowledge of DFMEA, PFMEA, Control Plans, and advanced risk-based quality methodologies
• IAFTA and VDA 6.3 certifications 

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Certified Internal Auditor

TRAVEL TIME REQUIRED 

60%

OUR CORE PRINCIPALS: Safety.  Integrity.  Respect.  Teamwork.  Inclusion.

OUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

•  High-Performance Culture• Customer Focus

•  Operational Excellence

•  Innovation

•  Financial Strength

VERTIV BEHAVIORS

• Own it
• Act with urgency
• Foster a customer-first mindset
• Think big and execute
• Lead by example
• Drive continuous improvement
• Learn and seek out development
• Promote transparent & open communication 

About Vertiv

Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to enable its customers’ vital applications to run continuously, perform optimally and grow with their business needs.  Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today’s data centers, communication networks and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extend from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Westerville, Ohio, USA, Vertiv employs around 34,000 people and does business in more than 130 countries. Visit Vertiv.com to learn more.   

Work Authorization

No calls or agencies please. Vertiv will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, or TN or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Vertiv is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We promote equal opportunities for all with respect to hiring, terms of employment, mobility, training, compensation, and occupational health, without discrimination as to age, race, color, religion, creed, sex, pregnancy status (including childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression (including transgender status or sexual stereotypes), genetic information, citizenship status, national origin, protected veteran status, political affiliation, or disability. If you have a disability and are having difficulty accessing or using this website to apply for a position, you can request help by sending an email to [email protected].

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