Improvement Technician Skills Coach

Improvement Technician Skills Coach - Lean and Six Sigma experience

Based anywhere in the UK, national role, mainly remote with some travel (no more than 2 hours commute when going out to learners)

Permanent Full Time Monday to Friday

to £35k plus 25 days holiday, pension, CPD, support, mileage and expenses - 60% of the role is remote with the other 40% out with learners/employers

Our client is a leading national training provider delivering Apprenticeship programmes throughout the UK. As an OFTSED Grade 2 'Good’ provider, they specialise in Apprenticeship training across a diverse range of Professional Services and Supply Chain & Logistics sectors including Leadership, Management, Freight Forwarding, and Customer Service.

The primary task within the role of Improvement Practitioner/Technician Skills Coach is to support and educate learners working towards core Apprenticeship standard qualifications in their journey to a successful end point assessment. The Improvement Practitioner standard course - Teaching across the following programs; Improvement Practitioner and Technician Level 4 - We will need you to have had Six Sigma and Lean experience.

• Key Skills: Apprentices will develop skills in areas such as:
  • Identifying opportunities and delivering improvements.
  • Data analysis and statistical methods.
  • Process capability and performance analysis.
  • Root cause analysis.
  • Experimentation and optimization.

Key Responsibilities & Objectives:

• Achieving minimum 88% end-point assessment, leading to a minimum 88% success rate on the Apprenticeship Standard
• Coach apprentices in business skills by guiding, supporting, providing accountability and encouragement
• Experience in delivering Lean Six Sigma methodologies, quality improvement and project management training
• Delivering Improvement technician/practitioner apprenticeship standards.
• Visiting apprentices in the workplace, providing coaching and assessment
• Supporting apprentices remotely to provide coaching and assessment via virtual learning platform
• Establish positive working relationships with clients
• To facilitate the enhancement of work performance, self-directed learning and personal development
• Prepare, agree and review apprenticeship learning plans
• Challenge and develop apprentice’s skills and abilities to enable them to achieve the best performance results
• Tracking and reporting progress of planned learning to achieve end-point assessment
• Be quick to problem solve and produce solutions to any learning or development barriers to apprentice’s
• Providing observational and specific feedback, encouraging the apprentice to self-assess their performance and readiness for achievement
• Ensure best practices and be aware of Health and Safety; Safeguarding; Prevent and related acts.

To apply for the role of Business Improvement Technician Skills Coach national role please email your cv to

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