CIB - 723 Sustainability - traineeships

Date of effect
7 November 2016

Updated
21 July 2023

Qualifications

MSS30322 Certificate III in Competitive Systems and Practices

MSS40322 Certificate IV in Competitive Systems and Practices

MSS50322 Diploma of Competitive Systems and Practices

Terms of traineeships

Full-time:

MSS30322 Certificate III in Competitive Systems and Practices

• 24 months or until the relevant competencies are achieved

MSS40322 Certificate IV in Competitive Systems and Practices

• 36 months or until the relevant competencies are achieved
• 24 months or until the relevant competencies are achieved where the trainee holds MSS30322 Certificate III in Competitive Systems and Practices

MSS50322 Diploma of Competitive Systems and Practices

• 36 months or until the relevant competencies are achieved
• 24 months or until the relevant competencies are achieved where the trainee holds MSS40322 Certificate IV in Competitive Systems and Practices

Part-time:

See part-time apprenticeships and traineeships

Probationary period

Where the nominal term is:

• up to and including 24 months - 2 months
• greater than 24 months - 3 months

Date of effect
7 November 2016

Updated
21 July 2023

Qualification

MSS50222 Diploma of Environmental Monitoring and Technology

Terms of traineeship

Full-time:

MSS50222 Diploma of Environmental Monitoring and Technology

• 36 months or until the relevant competencies are achieved
• 24 months or until the relevant competencies are achieved where the trainee holds MSS40222 Certificate IV in Environmental Monitoring and Technology

Part-time:

See part-time apprenticeships and traineeships

Probationary periods

Where the nominal term is:

• up to and including 24 months - 2 months
• greater than 24 months - 3 months

Industry

Competitive Systems and Practices reflects practices and principles often referred to as Lean manufacturing, Lean production or just Lean that have been developed in the manufacturing sectors over the last 80 years. It provides tools, knowledge and skills for establishing work systems and practices that support immediate and ongoing improvements to a business. Lean relies on several foundational concepts:

• Customer focus - value is only what the customer values
• Eliminate waste - if it is not value then it is waste and get rid of it
• Smooth flow - levelling out any variations to achieve consistent flow of processes
• Manage efficiencies along the supply chain rather than create department silos
• Continuous improvement - continually find ways to make improvements
• Respect for people - valuing the expertise of people who know their work

For most businesses this requires significant investment and changes to their procedures, workplace culture and management culture. To get the best results a business needs to apply the changes across the whole organisation - it is hard to sustain efficiencies, improvements, and culture change in an isolated section of an organisation.

It is imperative that management provide the leadership and commitment to implement the program and to support and challenge the business and its staff to achieve excellence.

Relationship to job roles and occupations

Competitive Systems and Practices are complementary to specific occupational skills and general equipment operations. They provide methods for analysing problems, measuring and improving performance and managing the organisational changes needed to achieve its defined goals.

The Competitive Systems and Practices training, and qualifications are designed for existing workers, who have applied and developed skills in a project-based work-environment; trainees apply their specialist knowledge and skills to support organisations who are implementing a continuous improvement culture. Trainees are taught to use a range of improvement tools designed to enhance manufacturing process operations and their profitability. These tools can include design and innovation, leadership, preventative maintenance, problem solving, quality and integrated business and logistical support.

The Certificate III level trainees may be using competitive systems and practices skills for either their own work or for application with others in a team or work area. When applied to an individual’s own work it offers the opportunity for deeper skill and knowledge than the Certificate II and will typically apply to an experienced or senior operator. A person applying the qualification to a team or work area may be in an informal facilitative role or be formally designated as team leader or similar.

The Certificate IV level trainee may be applying competitive systems and practices skills to their own work and the work of others typically at a team or work area level in an enterprise. The trainee will often be formally designated as a team leader or technical expert. The job provides skills in implementation of competitive systems and practices, including monitoring of outcomes against performance indicators, problem solving, facilitation and mentoring.

The Diploma level trainees may be supervisors and managers. It targets trainees who have responsibility for competitive systems and practices strategy and implementation across a whole enterprise plant or value stream. It also targets managers, technicians and paraprofessionals who have plant or enterprise-wide responsibility for one or more of:

• developing a business case for competitive systems and practices changes
• auditing and reporting on competitive systems and practices implementation
• designing integration of competitive systems and practices changes with technical operations
• working with value stream members on competitive systems and practices.

The Diploma is designed to complement other more technically focused jobs or people who have significant industry experience at a supervisory or managerial level.

These qualifications include clear environmental science and technology coverage and will enable environmental officers, compliance officers, technicians and field officers to measure and address enterprise impacts on air, water and other external environmental conditions. Other inclusions will be implementation of legislation, development and implementation of policy as well as reporting requirements and development of strategic operational plans and procedures.

At Diploma level, trainees may work as environmental officers, environmental protection officers, environmental compliance officers, environmental technicians and similar personnel employed by enterprises, including Commonwealth, State and Local government agencies. They will learn to:

• conduct environmental monitoring
• undertake internal auditing and continuous improvements to enhance compliance and minimise the environmental impacts of processes
• inspect enterprises and negotiate responses to instances of non-compliance with audit and regulatory requirements
• manage and conserve natural systems and resources
• minimise pollution
• remediate and rehabilitate sites

MSSr5.0 Sustainability Training Package includes the following qualifications that support traineeship pathways:

• MSS30322 Certificate III in Competitive Systems and Practices
• MSS40322 Certificate IV in Competitive Systems and Practices
• MSS50222 Diploma of Environmental Monitoring and Technology
• MSS50322 Diploma of Competitive Systems and Practices

Entry Requirements

The Sustainability - Competitive Systems and Practices traineeships are available for existing workers trainees only.

On successful completion of the relevant qualification

• parties may apply to the Commissioner for Vocational Training for completion of the apprenticeship or traineeship prior to the nominal completion date of the training contract or Training Services may issue letters from the Commissioner to both parties inviting them to consider competency-based completion if it has received advice from the training organisation that the apprentice or trainee is eligible to receive their qualification.

Download a Request for Competency Based Completion form.

Applications under the Apprenticeship and Traineeship Act 2001 to establish a traineeship, whether full-time, part-time or school based will not be approved unless the Commissioner for Vocational Training is satisfied that appropriate industrial arrangements are in place.

As these traineeships represent cross-industry qualifications, there is no particular Modern Award that applies to these traineeships, although many trainees may be employed under the Manufacturing and Associated Industries and Occupations Award 2020. Employers who are uncertain of their award coverage should check their award coverage with their relevant employer association or by contacting the Fair Work Ombudsman.

All private sector employers and employees in New South Wales are covered by the national industrial relations system administered by the Fair Work Commission. The industrial instrument that applies is a national (modern) award or a current enterprise agreement registered with the Fair Work Commission.

Further information is available from the Fair Work Ombudsman or phone 13 13 94.

Applications to establish traineeships under the Sustainability VTOs must be accompanied by the following documentation:

• business case
• full training plan

The business case needs to show that the organisation is committed to implementing sustainability and/or competitive systems and practices principles in its day-to-day operations. It should include, at a minimum:

• reasons for engaging in sustainability or undertaking competitive systems and practices training, such as:
  • identified problems or crises to be addressed
  • specific goals to be achieved
  • broader business or strategic plan targets to be met
  • regulatory requirements to be complied with
  • how the traineeship will add value to the employer’s business
  • information about how the proposed training relates to the duties and responsibilities of the applicant/s
  • information about how the employer will supervise and undertake work-based training of the trainee/s.
• what measurable outcomes are to be achieved. This should include ‘SMART’ objectives that are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Timely.
• how resources (funds, personnel, equipment etc) will be made available. This will show that the firm has thought through the level of investment and support required and is providing a competitive environment which enables the application of the skills being achieved through the training program.
• approval from senior management - at the level of CEO, COO, State Manager, Site Manager or similar.

The applications must also be supported by a Training Plan that:

• identifies the units of competency to be completed
• specifies details of how, when, where and by whom training and assessment will be conducted
• identifies how the training and assessment will be customised to reflect the nature of the work undertaken by the trainees

Both of these documents should be developed with input from the employer and the Registered Training Organisation. They must be signed off by a senior manager in the employer organisation.

There are no licensing or other regulatory implications that impact directly on the traineeships.

Industry however, is subject to a range of environmental and sustainability related regulatory controls. Depending on the actions taken by individuals to improve environmental and sustainability outcomes for organisations, occupational licences may be required. For example, electricians undertaking sustainability related improvements to equipment will generally need an electrical worker’s licence. The occupational licences required will vary with the nature of the work and to some extent on location as most regulations are State based and some are enforced by local government.

Further information is available from Manufacturing Skills Australia.

A copy of each Vocational Training Order is available for inspection on this internet site below or at any Training Services centre of the NSW Department of Education.