API Lead Auditor

• All API inspectors including piping inspectors
• Pressure vessel inspectors
• Storage tank inspectors
• Process engineer
• Operating engineers
• Course Schedule 

• Fundamental concepts and quality management principles
  
• Fundamental concepts 
  
•  Quality management system 
  
• Quality management principles 
• Customer focus.
•  Leadership 
• Engagement of people 
•  Process approach 
• Improvement
• Evidence-based decision making.
• Relationship management 
• Developing the QMS using fundamental concepts and principles.
• QMS model 
• Development of a QMS 
• QMS standards, other management systems, and excellence models
• Ethics and Standards of Conduct for Auditors
  
• This section relates to the ethical expectations from an API-certified auditor including:
• Conflict of interest
• Independence and objectivity
• Confidentiality and integrity
• Audit Programs
• Identification of audit program objectives
• Development and implementation of an audit program
• Evaluation of the effectiveness of the audit program
• Use of the audit program as a management tool to improve business performance
• Process auditing
  
• Definition of a process
• Advantages of process auditing
• Difference between process auditing and other auditing techniques
• Use of audit trails in a process audit
• Pre-audit activities
• Audit planning
• Preparation of auditing tools
• Review of audit documentation
• Coordinating logistics
• Assignment of the audit team
• Conducting the audit
  
• Conducting/managing the opening/entrance meeting
• Identifying and collecting samples
• Reviewing documents/records, observing and interviewing
• Communicating with audit team and auditee
• Using auditing tools
• Identifying/documenting/communicating findings
• Analyzing audit data to develop the audit conclusion/summ Conducting/managing the closing or exit meeting
• Audit reporting/follow-up activities
  
• Writing a process audit report
• Writing a nonconformity
• Documenting conclusions 
• Reviewing corrective action plans
• Evaluating corrective actions
• Verifying corrective actions
• Lead Auditing
• Responsibilities of the Lead Auditor
• Competency requirements of the Lead Auditor
• Resolving conflicts within the audit team
• Coordinating and assigning audit activities
• Making decisions on findings and audit conclusion

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