This apprenticeship standard develops the skills to facilitate improvement activity in an area of responsibility, often using Lean and Six Sigma methods. Once qualified, an improvement technician can work as a member of an operational team to resolve problems, prevent reoccurrence and engage others to improve performance. They will have the knowledge to provide advice and expertise in business improvement methods to their colleagues.
What skills do staff develop?
Improvement technician apprentices gain the skills and competence to perform a variety of tasks in line with best practices, company procedures and regulatory requirements. These include:
- Compliance
- Team formation & leadership
- Self-development
- Project management
- Change management
- Principles & methods including Six Sigma principles, interim containment actions, Lean principles
- Project selection & scope
- Problem definition
- Process mapping & analysis
- Data acquisition for analysis
- Basic statistics & measures
- Process capability & performance
- Root cause analysis
- Experimentation
- Identification & prioritisation
- Sustainability & control
Apprentices can also improve their maths and English skills during the programme if they have not previously achieved level 2 standards. TRS have specialist tutors who teach numeracy and literacy skills in industry-relevant ways.
Duration
14-18 months
Progression options after improvement technician apprenticeship
On completion, apprentices can also consider progression onto the improvement practitioner level 4 apprenticeship standard.
Further information
If you have staff you want to enrol on to the improvement technician apprenticeship standard, or you want to recruit apprentices, please leave your details on our contact form and we’ll be in touch within 48 hours.