Senior Internal Auditor at FIDELITY MANUFACTURING – Ocala, Florida

Job Title: Senior Internal Auditor – 1st shift

Reports to: COO

Shift: 1st shift, Mon-Fri, Full-time

Hours: 8:00 - 5:00 PM

Location: Florida and Texas (as required)

Employee Perks

As a team member at Fidelity Manufacturing, you'll enjoy:

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
• Paid Holidays and Sick Time
• Career advancement and bonus opportunities
• Fun Events!
• Paid vacation days
• 401K
• Learning and Development
• Profit Sharing

About Us

FIDELITY MANUFACTURING is part of the backup Power Generation Industry. We design and build back up power packages (to include tanks and enclosures) for large and small health, industrial, and technology-oriented businesses that cannot have a power lapse at any time.

Job Description

The Senior Internal Auditor is responsible for planning and executing companywide audits across all departments and locations to verify that processes are defined, followed, effective, and consistent and the requirements of ISO 9001. This role goes beyond manufacturing-floor process audits and includes audits of work instructions, administrative processes, maintenance/repair ticket completion, cross-plant standardization, and adherence to internal systems (ERP, maintenance system, quality systems, and safety workflows).

Responsibilities and Duties

The Senior Internal Auditor is a meticulous individual who will be responsible for conducting internal audits to assess the effectiveness of internal controls, identify areas of improvement, and ensure compliance with policies and regulations. The Senior Internal Auditor will possess strong analytical skills, a solid understanding of auditing principles, and can communicate audit findings clearly and effectively.

The Senior Internal Auditor will participate in business process walkthroughs to understand and identify key controls, keep abreast on control-impacting business changes, effectively and efficiently evaluate key controls, and monitor action plan remediation activities.

The Senior Internal Auditor will evaluate and improve end-to-end business processes by identifying inefficiencies, control gaps, and opportunities for optimization, applying continuous improvement methodologies, and partnering with stakeholders to design scalable, efficient, and well-controlled processes.

This individual also serves as a capability-builder: teaching and coaching leaders and teams on audit readiness, standard work, and continuous improvement habits while maintaining a disciplined audit cadence.

Main Activities

• Maintain confidentiality about all aspects of work and adhere to all procedures established by Fidelity Manufacturing.
• Maintain applicable professional development required for audit proficiency.
• Assure consistency and accuracy in all audits and audit reports and support classifications of audit findings as Critical, Major, Minor and Opportunities for Improvements (OFI). This includes content, grammar, spelling, and submission of the final report according to identified timelines.
• Partner with internal Quality and Manufacturing teams to support audit planning, risk assessment, and ongoing oversight.
• Follow and adhere with all required protocols and procedures, including scheduling work per agreed upon criteria and maintaining cost effectiveness in all expenses.
• Communicate all reports and other related information in a timely manner
• Participate in the planning, fieldwork, and reporting phases of internal audits across various departments to evaluate the adequacy of internal controls with focus on process gaps, unclear standards, and training needs.
• Effectively identify root causes, best practices in design control and operational effectiveness, and communicate results to management.
• Drive measurable improvements in processes by translating process insights into sustainable, value-added enhancements, influencing process design, embedding strong controls, and promoting scalable, efficient ways of working.
• Partner with management to monitor the progress of recommendations to ensure action plans are implemented timely and accurately.
• Collaborate with and educate process owners regarding the importance of maintaining strong internal controls and the role of internal audit.
• Develop working relationships with Business Process owners to maximize the cohesiveness between the teams.
• Support supplier qualifications and oversight activities in compliance with applicable standards or requirements.
• Maintain supplier qualifications documentation including supplier questionnaires, Quality agreements, change control assessments, audit reports, audit responses.
• Lead and participate in on-site audits of suppliers, contract testing laboratories, critical material, and service providers, as applicable.
• Perform other duties as required.
• Maximum travel is approximately 25%.

Required Skills

• Self-discipline and organizational skills to ensure that audit schedules are performed correctly.
• Strong people skills are necessary to discuss audit findings tactfully and objectively with management and plant personnel.
• Must be able to work autonomously and able to deal with situations in a diplomatic and professional manner.
• Once an audit is completed, the auditor provides a summary of non-conformances and submits a full audit report within 3-5 days.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years in manufacturing operations, quality systems, operational excellence, internal audit, or similar multi-department process improvement role.
• Demonstrated experience leading audits and driving corrective action closure.
• Strong working knowledge of:
• Standard work / work instruction structure
• Corrective action systems (CAPA mindset)
• Root cause analysis methods and facilitation
• Maintenance workflow basics (ticketing, prioritization, closure verification)
• High ability to influence without direct authority; confident communicator.
• Strong documentation discipline and comfort building dashboards/logs.
• Preferred Qualifications / Requirements
• Multi-site manufacturing experience.
• Lean / Six Sigma (Green Belt or higher) or equivalent CI background.
• Experience auditing ERP-driven processes (Epicor or similar), maintenance CMMS, training LMS.
• Experience writing standards and building internal control systems.