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The role of a lead auditor is critical to the success of the certification audit. When a certification body sends an audit team to evaluate an ISO 9001 :2015 Quality Management System, the audit team is led by a lead auditor. This critical auditor has additional responsibilities above and beyond the other auditors on the team, such as assigning audit tasks and rendering final judgment on non-conformances. The essential steps to becoming an ISO 9001 Lead Auditor You must take some steps if you want to become a lead auditor. Ensure good prior experience. You'll want to get experience in a job where you'll be responsible for understanding Quality Management System processes and maybe undertaking internal audits of those systems. This expertise will aid you in understanding diverse process implementations as an auditor. If you're conducting process audits, you must understand how processes work. Process audits look at the whole process rather than just the written documents. A...

  ISO 9001 is the international standard of quality management systems (QMS), published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The QMS is a uniform and well-organized process approach governing quality and control objectives to ensure continual improvement. ISO 9001 defines the requirements for creating a quality management system.   At the centre of the ISO 9001 are eight fundamental principles of quality management: Customer focus Quality management focuses mainly on meeting customer requirements and doing your best to exceed your customer’s expectations. You can establish this focus by attempting to understand their expectations and requirements.  Leadership  Organizations succeed when their leaders establish and maintain work environments that enable employees to become fully involved in achieving their unified quality goal s. You should help your company’s leaders at all levels establish a single purpose and direction and create conditio...