Interesting subject, as our organization received a minor finding because I, as the director of quality, didn't produce my qualifications as an internal auditor at the time of our TS16949 audit. In spite of my nearly 20 years of experience in the field, the auditor said that, unless I had some form of objective evidence to the contrary, I wasn't qualified or competent to perform internal audits.
As we run work primarily for GM, I explained to the auditor that I have been trained in the "Core Tools, including PPAP and other reference manuals including
APQP, MSA, SPC, and
FMEA and GM Customer Specifics, as applicable" - per the IATF GM Customer Specific Requirements.
For objective evidence attached to our corrective action, I included some training material that I had a few years ago and a copy of my six sigma greenbelt certification that was automotive focused (and, accordingly, included items such as PPAP, APQP, MSA, SPC, and FMEA). I would have thought that this would be more than sufficient in terms of evidence.
The auditor's response in our status update letter was:
?Please refer to GM Customer Specific Requirements (Revision January 2015) for Internal Auditors (section 4.1.10) and update the evidence sent to support the corrective action submitted to address NC
8.2.2.
At this point, I'm sort of at a loss for how to respond other than filing a complaint with our registrar...
