Improvement Technician Level 3 Apprenticeship
+ Lean & Six Sigma Yellow Belt (Lean6 ISO 18404:2015 Certificate)
The Improvement Technician apprenticeship will equip your team with a toolkit of Lean and Six Sigma methodologies, processes and principles to implement change across your organisation. Give them the tools to identify and remove waste and inefficiency.
With a minimum 95% of the cost of training covered by the Government, your people will work towards the Improvement Technician Level 3 apprenticeship, along side the Lean & Six Sigma Yellow Belt (Lean6 ISO18404:2015 Certificate).
What is an apprenticeship?
An apprenticeship is a blend of a full-time job with training. The apprentice will split their time 80/20. 80% of their working time will be spent carrying out their day-to-day job responsibilities. 20% of their time will be ‘off-the-job’ and spent working towards their apprenticeship qualification.
From August 1st 2022, the new minimum off the-job training requirement for a full-time apprentice is 20% of a 30 hour week (even if the apprentice works more than 30 hours per week); this equates to an average of 6 hours of off-the-job training per week.
Vital to the success of the apprenticeship, the learner has to be actively working towards the standards at least 20% of the time they are paid by you over a minimum duration of 12 months.
Who is the Improvement Technician apprenticeship for?
The level 3 Improvement Technician apprenticeship is designed for Continuous / Business / Process Improvement Executives, Technicians, Engineers who are interested in maximising customer satisfaction, reducing waste and improving efficiency within their business.
Apprenticeship learning route benefits
- You will have weekly face to face delivery sessions (3.5 hours a week)
- Employer only has to pay up to 5% of the course cost
- Apprentices are allocated 20% of their work time to complete the apprenticeship - 10% delivery at Whyy? Change, 10% spent applying the learning in the workplace
- No additional fees, all costs are included with the apprenticeship
- Our highly skilled practitioners will deliver interactive and engaging sessions to guide learners through the course
Don't just take our word for it...
Ava from AESSEAL plc spoke to us about her Level 3 Improvement Technician apprenticeship experience. Here’s what she had to say:
“Whyy? Change are an outstanding training provider, offering full and in-depth apprenticeship courses suited for all. I have recently completed and excelled in my Improvement Technician Apprenticeship course led by Ray. All the staff are outstanding in what they do, with exceptional knowledge in many areas, making them a well-rounded team. I would certainly recommend Whyy? Change.”
What will you study on the level 3 apprenticeship?
- Project and Change Management Tools
- Voice of the Customer
- Project Selection and Scoping
- Data Acquisition for Analysis
- Key Lean Tools & Principles
- Process Mapping Analysis
- 8 Wastes
- Team Formation and Leadership
Career Development
Average UK salary data from Glassdoor salary checker, April 2022.
Eligibility
At Whyy?, we assess every potential learner to check they’re eligible and will discuss what you want out of the apprenticeship as well as the learner. To be eligible for an apprenticeship, your people need to be:
- Aged 16 or over (no upper age limit)
- Employed
- Living in the UK or EU for the past 3 years
- Learning significant new knowledge, skills and behaviours
- Not on any other fully-funded training course
Whether that time is when they are having direct learning sessions, writing sample project charters, or applying their new skills in your workplace through implementing techniques they’ve learned with Whyy?, they require the time to develop and become accomplished change practitioners over the duration of the apprenticeship… your business will reap the rewards from this investment of time.
Once the learning has been completed, to assess that they understand and can apply their new knowledge, skills and behaviours, they will be independently assessed through assessment methods which will test them, but will prove valuable for their careers in change management.
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Eligibility
The Improvement Technician Apprenticeship costs £4,000. You can get 95-100% funding available so you’ll only have to pay a minimum of 5% (£200). This includes the Lean & Six Sigma Yellow Belt certificate at no additional cost. To access this funding, all employers must have digital apprenticeship account.
12 – 13 months
Improvement Technician Apprenticeship
Price
Funding Available: £4,000
Your Price: £0-200
Certificate
ISO 18404:2015 Lean6 Yellow Belt
Whyy? HQ or Onsite
Unit 7B, AESSEAL New York Stadium, New York Way, Rotherham, S60 1FJ
What is Lean Six Sigma?
Lean Six Sigma is a highly successful methodology for improving any manufacturing or business process. Applying this methodology aims to improve performance by systematically removing waste and reducing variation.
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Funding
The Improvement Technician Apprenticeship costs £4,000. You can get 95-100% funding available so you’ll only have to pay a minimum of 5% (£200). This includes the Lean & Six Sigma Yellow Belt certificate at no additional cost. To access this funding, all employers must have digital apprenticeship account.
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Knowledge
they’ll learn
- Doing the right things for the customer and following the rule book.
- Know who they need to work with in a team and who can help them.
- Understand project management tools and how to choose a project to work on.
- Lean & Six Sigma principles.
- Analysing data and how to map processes.
- How to select data to analyse.
- Control charts & histograms.
- Continuous data & active analysis.
- Prioritising & Identifying what to choose to work on.
- Controlling the process.
Skills
they’ll develop
- Share project progress
through reporting.
- Plan, manage and apply change structures.
- Respond to valid queries and coach colleagues.
- Use the right tools and engage with the right people.
- Scope projects and set KPI’s.
- Identify who your customers are and make their voice heard.
- Define what’s gone wrong before.
- Analyse and visualise the process.
- Apply Lean tools.
- Collect & analyse data to assess process conduct.
- Share best practice.
- Look how to implement new processes to benefit the business.
Behaviours
they’ll adopt
- Committed to looking for opportunities to make change, improvement delivery.
- Helpful, inclusive, motivate others, know how they impact on the team.
- Professional manner in line with your business, trusted to work on their own.
- Want to continually develop and keep learning.
- Confronts safety issues to keep colleagues and themselves safe.
