Operations Management Apprenticeship

This apprenticeship will support multiple departments to coordinate and optimise daily operations, ensuring efficient customer service. It involves strategic planning, business analysis, and hands-on coordination to drive improvements and meet business goals, with rotations to build operational skills and knowledge.

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

Key deliverables and accountabilities:

The candidate will have a variety of responsibilities subject to theirexpertiseand preference, examples include:

• Process Optimisation – identify, enhance implement new business and operational processes.
• Allocation – assist with allocation of workforce, plant and finance, looking for optimal utilisation.
• Continuous Improvement- addressing operational challenges and proactively seeking and assisting the implementation of solutions.
• Operational Planning – assist with the development of operational plans / work.
• Leverage data from across the business to produce coherent and comprehensive analysis and reports to support decision making by management with regards product development, investment, and business planning.
• Willingness to work additional hours outside the contracted hours as and when required.
• Willingness to stay away from home as and when required.
• Visit client sites as and when required to review performance and develop relationships with the client and operations teams.
• To liaise with teams across the business and identify cross-functional opportunities for knowledge sharing and business improvement.
• Ad hoc duties to assist the business to achieve its overall aims.
• Gain a breadth of knowledge from across select businesses with regards to products, processes, and people.
• Explore opportunities for general business improvement process re-design.