# Manufacturing Apprenticeship Lead

**Company**: McLaren Automotive
**Location**: Sheffield
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Manufacturing
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1351854

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## Description

The Manufacturing Apprenticeship Lead is responsible for the Manufacturing apprentice experience and programme framework.

The role involves:

- Acting as the central point of contact for apprentices, managers, training providers, and Academy stakeholders.

- Ensuring effective governance, learner progression, stakeholder coordination, and alignment to current and future capability requirements.

- Coordinating apprentice deployment, maintaining programme governance, and ensuring each apprentice receives a structured workplace experience.

- Supporting Manufacturing capability, skills development, and workforce readiness objectives.

- Delivering selected learning interventions in support of apprentice and Manufacturing capability development.

Responsibilities include:

- Apprentice Ownership & Line Management: managing apprentice development plans, reviews, and progress tracking.

- Rotation & Workplace Development Model: creating individual rotation and workplace development plans for each apprentice.

- Manufacturing Capability Support: supporting workforce capability initiatives and identifying skills development needs.

- Governance & Compliance: maintaining apprentice records, ensuring compliance with apprenticeship standards, and monitoring progress.

- Training Delivery & Onboarding: delivering learning interventions and supporting onboarding programmes.

- Continuous Improvement & Programme Quality: evaluating programme quality and implementing improvements.

- Stakeholder Engagement: building relationships with Team Leaders, functional managers, and training providers.

The ideal candidate will have:

- Experience within a manufacturing environment.

- Experience supporting, coaching, mentoring, or developing others.

- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

- Excellent planning and organisational capability.

We offer:

- Structured career development framework.

- 25 days' holiday, plus bank holiday.

- Enhanced company pension scheme.

- Discretionary annual bonus award.

- Private medical insurance and health cash plan.

- Life assurance benefit.

- Sabbatical of up to one year after two years' service.

- Generous parental leave policies.

- Wellbeing initiatives.

## Skills

### Required
- manufacturing
- apprentice management
- stakeholder coordination
- programme governance
- learning and development

### Nice to have
- apprenticeships
- vocational learning
- structured development programmes
- people management

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