Apprentice - Lean Consultant – Find an apprenticeship

Summary

The Apprentice Lean Consultant plays a key role in supporting the Lean and Continuous Improvement strategy within the Highways and Transportation. Working closely with the Lean Improvement team, the apprentice actively contributes to refining and implementing improvement initiatives aimed at enhancing operational efficiency.

Annual wage: £22,308 a year
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Training course: Improvement practitioner (level 4)
Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
37 hours 30 minutes a week
Possible start date: Monday 1 September
Duration: 1 year 2 months
Positions available: 1

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

The Apprentice Lean Consultant will have the opportunity to gain great skills and responsibilities from the very beginning within the Lean Improvement Team. There are no set day-to-day responsibilities due to the flexible nature of responding to our client’s and project's needs, however, our apprentices will have the opportunity to learn by:

· Supporting the Lean Improvement Group in driving lean implementation, assisting our Lean leaders and Practitioners to ensure projects are successfully delivered.

· Supporting Lean assessments as required.

· Supporting and facilitating our client engagements developing key communication skills.

· Assisting in reporting on Lean activities and progress.

· Helping in driving responses to the annual Highways Excellence Lean Maturity Assessment.

· Helping the Lean Improvement team innovate and grow our solutions and services to provide excellent client experiences.

· Identify opportunities to learn, grow and develop using our internal communities, team members and training materials.

Where you’ll work

4 Piccadilly Place

Manchester

M1 3BN

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

HAWK MANAGEMENT (UK) LIMITED

Your training course

Improvement practitioner (level 4)

Equal to higher national certificate (HNC)

Course contents

Compliance: Work in accordance with organisational controls and statutory regulations
Communication: Speak and write clearly. Influence others, question effectively. Plan and deliver meetings presenting insight to engage audiences
Coaching: Observe, listen, use questioning, provide feedback and spot learning opportunities
Project management: Define, sequence, plan and schedule activities with phases and milestones. Estimate effort and duration. Create and update project charter. Review progress
Change management: Sponsorship contract, surface and manage resistance, build compelling narratives for change, assess change impact
Principals and Methods: Select and apply a structured method and appropriate improvement tools engaging with subject matter experts to deliver business benefits
Project selection and Scoping: Support the identification of improvement opportunity and the scoping of these projects
Problem definition: Support development of problem/opportunity statements
Voice of the customer: Support application of techniques to identify and prioritise customers, their requirements and ensure balance against the stated and unstated needs of the business (Voice of the Business)
Process mapping & analysis: Process map to measure and analyse flow and value. Identify interfaces, functional responsibilities and ownership. Use insight to identify potential opportunities and map future state
Lean tools: Seek in-process waste through understanding of value within the value stream
Measurements systems: Plan, carry out and assess results of a measurement system study
Data acquisition for analysis: Develop a sampling strategy
Basic statistics & measures: Use graphical analysis to understand distribution and stability
Data analysis-statistical methods: Identify data-types and select analysis methods and tools. Assess time series data stability and analyse making relevant insight
Process capability & performance: Select methods and metrics for analysis
Root cause analysis: Select and apply the appropriate graphical tool dependent on the data type to identify patterns, trends and signals to establish hypothesis
Experimentation & optimisation: Plan designed experiment with clear objectives, and appropriate levels of Measurement Systems Analysis, analyse experiment data and optimise
Identification & prioritisation: Identify and prioritise factors, ideas and solutions
Data analysis – SPC: Select and apply appropriate tools for ongoing monitoring and control. Analyse and interpret control charts
Benchmarking: Conduct structured benchmarking to support target setting
Sustainability & control: Identify failure modes and embed learning from improvements

Your training plan

On this apprenticeship you will complete the Level 4 Improvement Practitioner and this will be delivered on a day release basis.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English (grade 4 or above)
Maths (grade 4 or above)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Communication skills
IT skills
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Problem solving skills
Analytical skills
Logical
Team working

About this company

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

After this apprenticeship

Following the apprenticeship, the apprentice can either develop further in their specialism or explore other routes and opportunities across our business.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

HAWK MANAGEMENT (UK) LIMITED

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000288512.

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Closes in 26 days (Friday 17 January)

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Company’s application instructions

Applications should be submitted online. Early application is encouraged as we reserve the right to close roles before the deadline stated.

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