Advanced Auditor Training
Advanced Auditor Training
Learn international best auditing practices ISO19011. Suitable for internal / external auditors and regulatory verifiers / evaluators.
Recognition
Food Surety Training
Format
Classroom · Virtual · In-house
Duration
Two Days
9:00am–5:00pm
Locations
New Zealand-wide, International
Awarded
Food Surety Certificate
Investment
NZ$1,250 +GST / person
COURSE OVERVIEW
Advanced Auditor Training Overview
Two-day Advanced Auditing Skills course
- Maintain quality & food safety management systems
- Deliver effective food safety audits to protect public
- Drive continuous improvements
- Mitigate organisational risks
- Based on NZQA Units 8084, 8085, 8086 & Exemplar Global – AU Management Systems Auditing (not assessed).
- No Pre-course study is required
Why Food Surety Advanced Auditor Certification?
Audit process is complex
- Conducting effective audits to protect customers and brands is not easy.
- Food safety and quality management systems you are expected to maintain and audits are getting more complex and involved.
- It takes a lot of technical and interpersonal skills to be a good auditor.
- If auditors are not highlighting potential risks, eventually customer complaints will!
Become a proficient auditor
Tailored training that gives auditors, verifiers and food professionals real-world skills and audit confidence.
You will understand what is auditing, why it’s important, the benefits of it, and what makes it effective.
You will learn how to plan, conduct, report and follow up on an audit effectively.
You will learn and practice techniques that will enhance your auditing skills.
Internationally recognised best auditing practices “ISO19011:2026”
This course applies the ISO 19011:2026 guidelines to equip you with the skills needed to conduct process-based, risk-based audits that add real value to your auditees and their organisation.
Certificate of Completion
Participants who successfully complete this course will be awarded a Food Surety Certificate, which may be used toward the Food Surety Professional Training Pathway.
Transforming internal audit food manufacturing culture in a way auditors, auditees, and stakeholders will genuinely appreciate
- Provide your auditors with the understanding they need to conduct effective audits.
- Equip auditors with audit tools & tactics they need to handle the various circumstances they will encounter when performing audits.
- Help them understand process-based audits and risk-based thinking and apply these to audits that achieve set objectives
- Bring you piece of mind and confidence that your systems, premises, teams and suppliers are delivering the expected results.
By completing this advanced auditing course, you will be able to:
- Understand the fundamentals of quality management
- Understand related concepts like risk-based thinking, the PDCA cycle, and process-based audits and how it applies to their audits
- Recognise the different types of audits and stakeholders’ expectations of each
- Define the purpose, scope, and objectives of an audit
- Explain what makes a good audit and auditor
- List and understand audit process steps
- Organise and plan for audits in line with audit programmes
- Conduct effective and objective audits
- Practice good auditor’s soft skills like communication, listening, questioning, time management and dealing with potential difficult situations
- Identify and classify observations and non-conformance
- Understand audit report writing and effective follow up on these
- Recognise best auditing practices and how they apply to the audits conducted at the workplace.
Your investment
The true cost of ineffective auditing is rarely visible until it is too late.
This course is a strategic investment in your team, covering external and internal food safety auditors, health and safety auditors, operations managers, supervisors, and quality assurance and compliance personnel. The outcome is an audit function that drives meaningful change, meets the expectations of all stakeholders, and gives your organisation lasting confidence in its systems and processes.
Don’t miss the opportunity! Take your/your team auditing skills to the next level
Per person
NZ$1,250 +GST
Group & in-house rates available
Advanced Food Auditor Courses NZ Virtual & Classroom — Dates
Advanced Auditor Training
Wed. & Thu. 29 & 30 Jul. 2026
09:00am to 05:00pm
Price: NZ$1,250 + GST
Advanced Auditor Training
Tue. & Wed. 08 & 09 Sep. 2026
09:00am to 05:00pm
Price: NZ$1,250 + GST
Advanced Auditor Training
Thu. & Fri. 15 & 16 Oct. 2026
09:00am to 05:00pm
Price: NZ$1,250 + GST
Advanced Auditor Training
Wed. & Thu. 25 & 26 Nov. 2026
09:00am to 05:00pm
Price: NZ$1,250 + GST
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Meet Your trainer
Ray Haddad
Ray is the Principal Trainer & Managing Director at Food Surety Limited. He has worked in the food industry in quality assurance roles, auditing, consulting, training, instructional design, workplace assessment and as an advisor in international food safety projects. This varied experience has given him a depth of understanding of the needs and the pain points among the different parties in the food industry.
Since 2007, Ray has built a proven track record conducting hundreds of audits including external third-party certification audits as an auditor/verifier recognised by the New Zealand Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI). In addition, he has trained thousands of food professionals from government agencies, NGOs, academia and businesses across the whole supply chain from farm to fork and across the different sectors, not only in New Zealand but in Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
Ray is driven by food professionals’ experiences of light bulb moments and breakthroughs in their thinking. He enjoys supporting them protecting food for all.
Recorded Webinar presented at Exemplar Global — Online Auditor Expo
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Testimonials
★★★★★
We are a specialist avocado and persimmon fruit packhouse. Our new Compliance Officer felt the Advanced Auditor course was valuable and engaging. She enjoyed the format and being able to share ideas and experiences from other food based industries. Thanks Ray.
Sue Butler
NTL Fruit Packers – Whangarei
★★★★★
We enjoyed 2 days of auditor training hosted by Ray, I would recommend this training for both newbies and experienced auditors as a refresher. Ray does a great job keeping the group engaged and on task!
Liz Maloney
National QA Manager NZ, Produco Limited
★★★★★
The Advanced Auditor Certificate and Advanced HACCP Principles & Application Certificate from Food Surety helped me secure my first TSA role at a major NZ export plant. The training strengthened the skills I now apply in verification, export compliance, and OMAR audits.
Alison Chen
TRUSTED BY LEADING FOOD INDUSTRY BRANDS & ORGANISATIONS
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Advanced auditing skills course in New Zealand based on best auditing practices
What is Advanced Auditor Training?
A training workshop aimed at internal and external auditors alike helping them understanding the concepts of quality and food safety management, risk-based thinking and process-based auditing. This food audit course will arm you with the skills needed to plan, conduct, report and follow up on effective audits following ISO19011:2026 Guidelines for auditing management systems
Why do I need to be a good auditor/verifier?
If you have been tasked to conduct audits then you have to be good at it for two reasons, you don’t want to embarrass yourself and you have to identify risks helping the organisation to mitigate them otherwise, there is no point!
Delivering good audits has lots of benefits:
- Helping auditees and their business survive and thrive
- Reduce time wasted on repeated mistakes, lost resources due to wasted products and rework
- Reduce risk and improve processes, systems and outcomes
What is process-based auditing?
Long ago quality auditing has moved away from close-by-close auditing toward process-based auditing where the auditor focus on the process, its effectiveness and efficiency delivering desired outcomes considering the organisational context.
What makes an excellent food auditor training workshop?
Simply put, an excellent food auditor training course should:
- Have good balance between theory and practical skills.
- Arm you with skills and techniques that you actually can/should use conducting management audits
- Have hands on real life examples explaining and simplifying concepts
- Help you doing what is right with confidence and manage difficult auditing scenarios.
Why Food Surety Advanced Auditor Training?
- This course is based on and cover the requirements (not assessed) and guidance of:
o ISO19011:2026 Guidelines for auditing management systems
o NZQA Unit standard 8085 Demonstrate understanding of quality and its management
o NZQA Unit standard 8086 Demonstrate knowledge required for quality auditing
o Exemplar Global – AU – Management Systems Auditing
- This course satisfies MPI’s expectations on theoretical training/ Competency Framework for verifiers and evaluators
- The course delivery and example used to be tailored to suit your industry, workplace, and team
- This course includes practical exercises on audit conducting and report writing as well as auditing role plays.
What are the key audit types?
Based on who is the auditor and auditee there are three types of audits:
- Internal (1st party) audits
- Supplier (2nd party) audits
- External (3rd Party) audits
Also, based on what is being audited, we have product audits, system audits, process audits,…
Why choose Food Surety food safety internal auditor training?
Food Surety Auditor training is aligned with national and international standards like ISO 19011 and GFSI recognised standards like BRCGS, SQF, FSSC22000 and more. We train food safety and environmental health officers from MPI, councils and certification bodies and internal auditors from diary, horticulture, honey, wine industries and more.
Don’t miss the opportunity! Take your/your team auditing skills to the next level