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.