The Lead Compliance Auditor develops risk-based audit plans and checklists, leads audit teams through system, process, product, and layered process audits, mentors and calibrates auditors on technique, and drives root cause analysis and corrective action to verified closure. Audit production controls common to defense manufacturing environments, including traceability and serialization, lot and serial segregation, FOD prevention, ESD controls, material handling and shelf-life control, and nonconforming material segregation.