Apprenticeship training course
Manufacturing manager (integrated degree) (level 6)
Overseeing manufacturing processes to ensure that performance output meets customer expectations.
- Qualification level
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6
Equivalent to degree. - Typical duration
- 42 months
- Apprenticeship category
- Engineering and manufacturing
- Maximum funding
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£24,000
Maximum amount government will fund
for apprenticeship training. - Also known as
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- Business Unit Manager and Site General Manager
- Factory Manager
- Manufacturing Manager
- Operations Manager
- Production Manager
- Skills
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Skills an apprentice will learn
- Identifying, forecasting, planning and scheduling resource requirements
- Identifying data requirements; data analysis and interpretation
- Using information technology
- Reporting, for example manufacturing performance data
- Communicating using different techniques, for example verbal, written, visual
- Building and sustaining collaborative relationships to influence internal and external stakeholders
- Presenting information, for example in staff briefings, customer meetings, management meetings
- Managing people, for example recruiting, leading, coaching and motivating a team
- Partnership working with local and/or regional union representation
- Driving compliance with legal, customer and product standards on site
- Devising, implementing and maintaining health & safety and environmental standards to achieve a harm free culture
- Producing budget proposals; negotiating budgets with senior managers
- Planning site based projects, for example for new capital investment, construction on site, new product lines and new equipment
- Managing change
- Conducting Continuous Improvement techniques within manufacturing environment
- Problem solving/trouble shooting within manufacturing environment
- Crisis management; agreeing, leading and implementing a site based disaster recovery plan
- Responding to third party audits; managing relationships with audit personnel
- F&D. Analysing food safety data, for example cooking/chilling temperatures, metal detection checks, storage and segregation
- F&D. Responsive production planning to adjust to customer orders
- F&D. Organoleptic testing of food and drink products
- F&D. Promoting food safety culture
Full information on Manufacturing manager (integrated degree) (level 6) is available from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.
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Apprenticeship location
Solihull, West Midlands Remove location