Certificate IV in Competitive Systems and Practices - MSS40316

Course Overview

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Average Course Duration: 1 Year

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Description

This qualification reflects the role of team leaders or those in similar job roles who are responsible for the implementation and monitoring of competitive systems and practices to improve efficiency in a team or work area and own work role. Individuals apply broad knowledge and analytical skills to facilitate change and improve efficiency.

This qualification assumes that a learner has current or past work experience where operational or technical skills have already been gained and a supervisory or similar level of responsibility exists. For this reason, this qualification is not suitable for direct entry from school.

No licensing, legislative, regulatory or certification requirements apply to this qualification at the time of publication.

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Student Outcomes

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Satisfied with Training

Percentage of graduates of this course who were satisfied with the training.

Improved Work Status

Percentage of graduates of this course who started/expanded a business or who have a new job, more highly skilled work, a promotion or higher pay.

Salary

The middle of the range of salaries earned by graduates in the Engineering and Related Technologies field starting their first ever full-time job after graduating (Certificate IV).

Jobs

Graduates of this course are most often employed as:

32.9%

Technicians and Trades Workers

26.4%

Managers

21.4%

Professionals

Industries

Graduates of this course are most often employed in:

41%

Manufacturing

19.9%

Electricity, Gas, Water and Waste Services

10.5%

Construction

All statistics are supplied by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research.

Financial Assistance

The federal, state and territory governments provide financial incentives and support for vocational education and training students to help them gain the skills required to secure and maintain rewarding and sustainable employment.

There are programs for all kinds of students; apprentices and trainees, new job starters, those re-entering the workforce, retraining for a new job or upgrading their skills for an existing job.

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Subsidised Training

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Career Information

Career development is the ongoing process of managing your life, learning and work. It involves developing the skills and knowledge that enable you to plan and make informed decisions about your education, training and career choices.

Sustainability Career Pathway

Certificate IV in Competitive Systems and Practices is in the Engineering and Related Technologies Field of Education. For more information about this kind of career, you can explore Sustainability.

Stream

Competitive Systems and Practices

Certificate II

Advanced Diploma

Other courses in this pathway

Stream

Environmental Monitoring and Technology

Sustainable Operations

Certificate II

Certificate III

Certificate IV

Diploma

Environmental Technician

Sustainability Officer

Advanced Diploma

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Australian Apprenticeships

Australian Apprenticeships (also known as apprenticeships and traineeships) combine work with training in a nationally recognised qualification. Australian Apprenticeships are available to anyone of working age and offer opportunities to learn new skills and be paid in over 500 different jobs.

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Units & Packaging

To be awarded the MSS40316 Certificate IV in Competitive Systems and Practices, competency must be achieved in twelve (12) units of competency.

three (3) core units of competency

nine (9) elective units of competency, as specified below:

a minimum of one (1) unit of competency from Group A

a minimum of five (5) units of competency from Group B

the balance of three (3) elective units of competency may be selected in any combination from:

Group A, not previously selected

Group B, not previously selected

Group C units listed below.

A maximum of three (3) Group C units may be selected from other qualifications in this Training Package, other endorsed Training Packages and accredited courses where those units are available at Certificates III, IV or Diploma level. Units chosen should be relevant to the workplace and would normally be drawn from the appropriate sector Training Package, or possibly the Business Services Training Package.

Note: Prerequisite units must be counted in the total number of units required for achievement of the qualification. Refer to individual units for details.

Core units of competency

Unit code	Unit title
MSS403001	Review competitive systems and practices
MSS403010	Facilitate change in an organisation implementing competitive systems and practices
MSMENV472	Implement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practices

Elective units of competency

Group A

Unit code	Unit title	Prerequisites
MSS403005	Facilitate use of a Balanced Scorecard for performance improvement
MSS403006	Facilitate implementation or review of competitive systems and practices in an office
MSS403011	Facilitate implementation of competitive systems and practices
MSS403085	Ensure process improvements are sustained

Group B

Unit code	Unit title	Prerequisites
MSS403021	Facilitate a Just in Time system
MSS403023	Monitor a levelled pull system of operations
MSS403024	Work within a constrained process
MSS403032	Analyse manual handling processes
MSS403034	Organise products into groups
MSS403035	Implement the visual workplace
MSS403039	Facilitate and improve 5S in an office
MSS403040	Facilitate and improve implementation of 5S
MSS403042	Facilitate mistake proofing in an office
MSS403043	Facilitate breakthrough improvements in an office
MSS403052	Map an office value stream
MSS403053	Map an operational process
MSS403054	Facilitate breakthrough improvements
MSS403055	Facilitate continuous improvement through the use of standardised procedures and practices
MSS403084	Improve changeovers
MSS403086	Improve cost factors in work practices
MSS403087	Mistake proof an operational process
MSS404053	Use DMAIC techniques
MSS404054	Apply statistics to operational processes
MSS404060	Facilitate the use of planning software systems in a work area or team
MSS404061	Facilitate the use of SCADA systems in a team or work area
MSS404084	Undertake process capability improvements
MSS404085	Undertake proactive maintenance analyses
MSS404086	Assist in implementing a proactive maintenance strategy
MSS404087	Support proactive maintenance
MSMSUP390	Use structured problem solving tools

Group C

Unit code	Unit title	Prerequisite unit
MSMENV672	Develop workplace policy and procedures for environmental sustainability
MSMWHS200	Work safely
MSS014010	Optimise sustainability of a process or work area
MSS014011	Facilitate team to develop and implement sustainability strategies
MSS024015	Apply an understanding of environmental principles to a site
MSS402080	Undertake root cause analysis
MSS405001	Develop competitive systems and practices for an organisation
MSS405004	Develop business plans in an organisation implementing competitive systems and practices
MSS405005	Manage competitive systems and practices responding to individual and unique customer orders
MSS405006	Develop a Balanced Scorecard
MSS405007	Introduce competitive systems and practices to a small or medium enterprise
MSS405008	Analyse and map a value stream
MSS405009	Manage a value stream
MSS405013	Facilitate holistic culture improvement in an organisation
MSS405014	Develop a communications strategy to support operations
MSS405015	Manage relationships with non-customer external organisations
MSS405016	Manage workplace learning
MSS405020	Develop quick changeover procedures
MSS405021	Develop a Just in Time system
MSS405022	Design a process layout
MSS405023	Develop a levelled pull system for operations and processes
MSS405024	Apply the theory of constraints
MSS405030	Optimise cost of product or service
MSS405031	Undertake value analysis of product or process costs in terms of customer requirements
MSS405032	Analyse cost implications of maintenance strategy
MSS405033	Optimise office systems to deliver to customer demand
MSS405040	Manage 5S system in an organisation
MSS405041	Implement improvement systems in an organisation
MSS405052	Design an experiment	MSS404054 Apply statistics to operational processes
MSS405053	Manage application of six sigma for process control and improvement	MSS404054 Apply statistics to operational processes
MSS405054	Determine and improve process capability	MSS404054 Apply statistics to operational processes
MSS405063	Develop the application of enterprise control systems in an organisation
MSS405064	Determine and establish information collection requirements and processes
MSS405075	Facilitate the development of a new product	MSS404054 Apply statistics to operational processes
MSS405081	Develop a proactive maintenance strategy
MSS405082	Adapt a proactive maintenance strategy to the process operations sector
MSS405083	Adapt a proactive maintenance strategy for a seasonal or cyclical business
MSS405084	Manage people relationships
MSS405085	Develop a documentation control strategy for an organisation
MSS405087	Investigate energy management as a business issue
MSS405088	Plan, implement and monitor energy management
MSS405089	Develop a business case for improved energy management

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