- Location: 1 Boeing Avenue, Airport Business Park, Waterford, Ireland
- Duration: 1 Year
Course details
The IIE Manufacturing and Engineering Skillnet is delighted to present this new Level 8 (Honours Degree equivalent) programme co-developed with, and delivered by, the Waterford
Institute of Technology School of Business.
The Higher Diploma in Business in Operational Excellence is a one year Level 8 programme specifically developed to meet identified industry needs. Participants will gain a wealth of knowledge, critical insight, and best practices from the blended learning approach, whilst the project management component embeds the practical application of the learnings attained for immediate impact in the workplace.
Who Should Do This Programme?
This programme is aimed at individuals from various backgrounds and disciplines who require a deeper understanding of Operational Excellence, Lean Transformations, and Project Management. This programme enables participants develop their potential as team leads, supervisors, technical leaders, and managers. It also provides the foundations to enable those wishing to integrate Operational Excellence and Lean into areas such as Quality, Supply Chain, Engineering, Human Resources, or Finance.
Applicants may wish to undertake this programme to aid their personal development into leadership roles from team leads, supervisors, technical leaders, or management. Applications are invited from candidates on a Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) basis wherein a candidate’s accredited (formal education qualifications, etc.) and/or unaccredited (work experience, etc.) will be considered when assessing applications.
Programme Aims
This high-quality, innovative, and applied programme satisfies the needs of industry, and it
aims to:
- Instil knowledge in operational excellence and lean philosophy; and provide critical insight into its practice in manufacturing, services, and management across a wide range oorganisational and sectoral contexts
- Provide a broad base of skills and knowledge to advance the application of operational excellence principles
- Advance creative thinking and innovation skills to enable a cross-functional, silo-free perspective
- Enhance communication and leadership skills to add value in adopting improvement strategies
- Provide knowledge, tools, and techniques to enable the design, delivery, and evaluation of continuous improvement projects
- Develop high levels of proficiency in project management skills and practice
Minimum Entry Requirements
The minimum entry requirements for candidates to be accepted on the programme include the following: Applicants should ideally have a minimum Level 7 qualification, in any discipline,
- along with a minimum of 3 years’ relevant industry experience; and where applicants do not have a previous Level 7 qualification they will be considered on the basis of an RPL application to a Level 7 standard or equivalent provided they have a minimum of 5 years’ relevant industry experience.
- Applicants should ideally be in employment in an organisation willing to participate with this programme, and which proposes the applicant for inclusion on the programme.
- Applicants who are not in employment at the time of registering on the programme must self-secure an organisation that will provide the applicant with a continuous improvement project to meet the requirements of the project management modules.
- Applicants must have an organisational-based continuous improvement project tohand to meet the requirements of the project management modules.
- Applicants for whom English is not their first language are required to have a minimum 6.0 IELTS or TOEFL iBT 80 (minimum of IELTS 5.0/TOEFL 15 in each
- band); or an overall pass in the Certificate in English for Academic Study or in the Certificate in Academic English.
About IIE Manufacturing & Engineering Skillnet
The IIE Manufacturing and Engineering Skillnet was established in June 2013. The purpose of the network is to address the skills requirements of the manufacturing and engineering sector. The IIE Manufacturing and Engineering Skillnet aims to provide intensive training programmes that focus on and are driven by specific member company needs. The network is made up of a group of companies that have shared training needs. Member companies can commission training that is suited exactly to their needs and by joining the IIE Manufacturing and Engineering Skillnet companies can benefit from subsidised training cTheirses that can be provided locally and delivered at times that suit them.
The Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) acts as the contracting organisation that manages and administers the activities of the network and receives and manages the funds from Skillnets Ltd. on behalf of the network group. The IIE also provides a network manager who is the key coordinator, providing the professional and developmental input. Both the IIE and the network manager will work with a steering group which has been formed from the member companies. This steering group will oversee and direct the network. The group will meet on a regular basis to make management decisions.
The network reserves a limited number of places for unemployed people across all training programmes and many of them provide direct access to employers through work placements.
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