To support your business with embedding a Continuous Improvement culture, we offer each customer a bespoke, tailor made programme that meets the individual needs of the business. We help senior teams understand what would be required to facilitate the implementation of the programme, the tools, and the benefits and what is expected of themselves as well as their employees.
Our team of coaches are industry experts and have lived and breathed CI for many years. We run each programme based at your own facilities minimising the downtime of each participant.
Funding your Continuous Improvement Apprenticeship Programme
The Apprenticeship Levy: The levy is paid by large employers with a pay bill of over £3 million (they pay 0.5% of their total annual pay bill). Levy paying employers access their funds through the online apprenticeship service. The funds in their accounts are available to spend on apprenticeship training in England. Find out more here.
Non Levy Customers: The levy is there to fund apprenticeship training for all employers. Smaller employers – those with a total annual pay bill of less than £3million – pay just 5% of the cost of their apprenticeship training and the Government pays the rest.
- Less than 50 employees: Apprentice funded through co-investment. Employer is required to pay 5% of total negotiated cost.
- More than 50 employees, payroll less than £3m: Apprentice funded through co-investment. Employer required to pay 5% of total negotiated cost.
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Lean Manufacturing Operative
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Improvement Technician Level 3
Lean Manufacturing Operative
12 months
Suitable for:
Engineering, Manufacturing and Logistics sectors
Suitable for the following job roles:
Production Team Member,
Assembly Operative, Manufacturing Logistics / Material Handling Operative,
Quality Assurance Operative,
Manufacturing Process / Finishing Operative
Programme covers
- Health and safety and environmental
- Production process
- Quality control
- Lean manufacturing and continuous improvement
- Problem solving
- Workplace organisation
- Communication and team working
Delivery model
- Induction
- Classroom development: 8 days
- Facilitated live work-based improvement projects: 8 days
- Self-study and the completion of progress logs
- Workplace observations
- Portfolio
- End point assessment: interview, observation and portfolio
Functional skills
Candidate will have functional skills in English and Maths at Level 1 or above
Improvement Technician Level 3
14 months
Suitable for:
Suitable as a progression route from the Lean Manufacturing Operative, or for employees who, after some initial foundation lean knowledge want to progress into the delivery of, the coaching of or simply get a further understanding of lean and six sigma methodology.
Suitable for the following job roles:
Managers / Team Leaders with a Continuous Improvement Remit, Process Technicians, Quality Control Managers / Analysts, Lean Six Sigma Facilitators (Yellow Belt)
Programme covers
- Team management and leadership
- Project management
- Change management
- Six sigma principles and methods
- Process mapping and analysis
- Basic statistics and measures
- Root cause analysis
- Sustainability and control
Functional skills
Candidate will have functional skills in English and Maths at Level 2 or above
