New Member Greetings
Hello! I have to admit, I've been lurking to see if any of this information may be helpful, and I found it has been. This is a great place to share our knowledge and help accomplish our goals. So I went ahead and signed up!
I currently work for an ingredient manufacturing facility with BRC certification. We have a wonderful team and everyone works together. What I do is handle the corporate documents and policy manuals, so I am inherently involved in high audit prep for all of our locations internationally, so I must be aware of many laws and regulations.
I want to take the step towards moving into operational auditing -whether with an outside company or as an internal auditor type of position: Similar to BRC, SQF, or ISO auditing. I just finished my Bus. Mgt. AS degree and have quite the options in front of me. I am older, so I have about 5 years of government auditing, 4 years of ISO:9000 & ISO:9001 (those were not food, but automotive manufacturing) experience under my belt, and now 3 years of BRC preparations. I was wondering if anyone had any advice as to the educational direction I should be looking into? I do plan on accomplishing certifications on my own, but there again, I am unsure as to which ones would be most beneficial and have the most impact when I send my resumes out. (I have seen affordable certifications for HACCP and internal auditing, as these are things I must accomplish on my own due to the nature of my position in my business; I will not have corporate representation.)
Any thoughts, opinions, professional advice, even personal experience sharing is welcome. I look forward to hearing from anyone to help me travel down the most appropriate path for myself and my professional future.
Cheers!
Welcome
Dear New Direction,
Welcome to the forum ! :welcome:
It’s a fascinating resume and questioning content.
Having previously sampled the quagmire of automotive standards when developing BRC manuals, I think you have seen the toughest stuff already in the documentative sense.
After traveling around on a lot of self-taught, wandering, inspectorial functions related to food consignments / processing facilities, I truly admire certified auditors who have brought a measure of systematic analysis into the field, even if I often don’t agree with them on technical details.
As you may already have noticed, there are a variety of threads here on “directions” for auditors although I think most are from “just starters”. Logically you should have more scope. Interesting to see responses.
Rgds / Charles.C