National Training Services

Certificate IV in Competitive Systems and Practices

The Certificate IV in Competitive Systems and Practices reflects the role of team leaders or those in similar job roles who are responsible for the implementation and monitoring of competitive systems and practices to improve efficiency in a team or work area and own work role. Individuals apply broad knowledge and analytical skills to facilitate change and improve efficiency. It is designed to suit general manufacturing, basic assembly lines, and jobbing shops.

Training and assessment for this qualification is delivered to employees in the workplace where there is a need to learn and implement improvement processes across the entire organisation.

In this course participants will undertake practical workplace improvement projects that focus on implementing Lean concepts and sustainable improvements to manufacturing environments. These projects are tailored to suit real areas of improvement within the workplace.

Training for this qualification is conducted in the workplace over a maximum of 14 months.

This program is suitable for non-manufacturing employees working in a manufacturing company or other business. with significant experience of 5 years and over who can lead projects and work unsupervised in their job roles.

This qualification assumes that a learner has current or past work experience where operational or technical skills have already been gained and a supervisory or similar level of responsibility exists. This qualification is not suitable for direct entry from school or new entrants to the manufacturing industry who have no previous training or experience in manufacturing.

There are no prerequisites, however, National Training Services offers this qualification as a work-based training and assessment program and therefore applicants must be employed in a suitable manufacturing company.

Additionally, they will need to have the support of their employer to undertake the training and assessment program.