Social Compliance Auditor

Compensation Data

The salary range for this position is $120,000-$125,000

Job Summary The Supply Chain Social Compliance Auditor plans, conducts, reports, and follows up on social compliance and responsible sourcing audits throughout the United States. The auditor must be an APSCA Certified Social Compliance Auditor (CSCA) in good standing and will support SMETA, RBA, amfori BSCI, and other globally recognized and customized buyer programs, subject to scheme-specific authorization. This home-based field role requires approximately 80% travel.

Job Description (if Text Exceeds 260 Words)

• Audit Planning: Review the audit request, applicable program or buyer requirements, prior audit information, site profile, legal context, and potential risk areas. Confirm scope, audit duration, team composition, language needs, travel arrangements, and any conflicts of interest.
• Audit Preparation: Develop an appropriate audit plan and sampling approach, review relevant client instructions and checklists, coordinate with internal scheduling and technical teams, and ensure all required documentation and equipment are available.
• Conducting Audits: Independently lead announced, semi-announced, unannounced, initial, periodic, and follow-up audits. Conduct opening and closing meetings, facility tours, management and worker interviews, and review relevant employment, payroll, working-hour, health and safety, environmental, and management system records.
• Compliance Evaluation: Evaluate workplace practices against applicable SMETA, RBA, amfori BSCI, other globally recognized and customized buyer responsible sourcing requirements, client codes, and relevant U.S. federal, state, and local requirements, subject to scheme-specific qualification and authorization.
• Audit Findings: Analyze and cross-check information obtained through observation, interviews, and document review; identify nonconformities and good practices; communicate findings clearly at the closing meeting; and escalate critical or integrity concerns in accordance with established procedures.
• Audit Reporting: Prepare accurate, objective, complete, and timely audit reports using the required program or client platform. Ensure findings are supported by sufficient evidence and reports meet TÜV Rheinland and program/client quality requirements.
• Corrective Action Verification: Review corrective action plans and supporting evidence, determine whether findings have been adequately addressed, update closure status, and conduct follow-up audits when required by the applicable program.
• Quality and Integrity: Follow APSCA professional conduct requirements and TÜV Rheinland policies for ethics, impartiality, confidentiality, information security, conflicts of interest, and anti-bribery. Participate in report reviews, witness or monitoring audits, calibrations, and other quality activities.
• Coordination and Administration: Work effectively with auditees, clients, co-auditors, interpreters, schedulers, program managers, and technical reviewers. Maintain audit records, manage travel and expenses, and meet established utilization and turnaround expectations.
• Professional Development: Maintain current knowledge of assigned audit programs, applicable labor and occupational safety requirements, emerging responsible sourcing risks, and APSCA continuing professional development requirements.

Education University Degree in the field of activity

Work Experience

• Strong working knowledge of social compliance auditing principles, APSCA competencies, sampling, evidence evaluation, payroll and working-hour review, management systems, and corrective action verification.
• Knowledge of international labor and human rights standards and the ability to interpret and apply relevant U.S. federal, state, and local labor and occupational safety requirements.
• Working knowledge of SMETA, RBA, amfori BSCI, and customized buyer responsible sourcing programs, with the ability to learn and apply new client protocols.
• Strong interviewing, observation, document review, investigative, and analytical skills, including the ability to protect worker confidentiality and assess inconsistent information.
• Ability to recognize common workplace health and safety risks and evaluate the effectiveness of related controls and management systems.
• Excellent written and verbal English, including the ability to prepare clear, objective audit reports and communicate difficult findings professionally. Bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish is an added advantage.
• Sound judgment, professional skepticism, attention to detail, and the ability to make impartial, evidence-based decisions under time pressure.
• Strong planning, time management, and organizational skills; proficiency with Microsoft Office and audit-reporting platforms; and the ability to manage frequent travel and multiple assignments independently. Spanish or another relevant language is highly preferred.