Manufacturing
NEIoT Higher Apprenticeship
L5 Improvement Specialist
Overview
Improvement Specialists are responsible for leading the deployment of improvement strategy, for training others and for providing broad and deep technical expertise in advanced and complex Lean and Six Sigma, Project and Change Management principles and tools to enable identification and delivery of improvement opportunities aligned to key business goals.
Leading the local deployment of improvement strategy; supporting delivery of business goals, for example they may model critical process inputs to enable root causes of complex problems to be verified or they may develop bespoke measurement processes to enable the collection of good-quality data in support of change
Providing technical expertise in structured Improvement methods and advanced tools such as Multiple Regression and Designed Experiments to analyse relationships between inputs and outputs
Leading advanced and/or cross-functional Improvement projects such as process re-engineering and change programmes or reducing defects on complex products
Co-ordinating Practitioner-level Improvement training, activities and projects; for example, they may deliver Lean Six Sigma Green Belt training and coaching to an awarding body accreditation standard
Coaching, mentoring and communicating with Improvement Practitioners, business leaders and stakeholders
Level 6 Improvement Leader.
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