Qualification details

EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS QUALIFICATION SUMMARY 

MSA31108 Certificate III in Competitive Manufacturing 

The following table contains a summary of the employability skills as identified by industry for this qualification. This table should be interpreted in conjunction with the detailed requirements of each unit of competency packaged in this qualification. The outcomes described here are broad industry requirements that reflect skill requirements for this level.

Employability Skill 

Industry /enterprise requirements for this qualification include :

Communication

• Implement OHS procedures and distribute related safety information
• Complete, access and interpret standardised documentation on behalf of self and other team members
• Share and discuss information with others about work activities
• Access and apply workplace procedures
• Provide information to team members about workplace procedures
• Read and interpret instructions, specifications, standard operating procedures and other work related documents
• Seek assistance or information from relevant personnel or supervisors
• Debrief on workplace changes with relevant stakeholders
• Record production or other work related information
• Access and use workplace communication tools and equipment
• Apply numeracy skills to work procedures

Teamwork

• Identify roles of other work colleagues including formal team members where teamwork is used as the form of work organisation
• Lead others in a production environment
• Share production or work related information with peers including team members, supervisors and management
• Identify hazards to self and other team members
• Recognise the value chain and advise team members as to how they can contribute to the final quality of the product
• Review changes to work practices and work relationships with supervisors
• Provide assistance with work operations as required
• Seek assistance with work operations as required

Problem solving

• Monitor workplace activities
• Report inconsistencies, non-compliances, faults or hazards
• Identify factors within team or work area that are a constraint to work efficiency or reaching of production outcomes
• Distinguish between essential and non-essential practices
• Implement methods of increasing features/benefits of products or processes
• Monitor jobs within team and make improvements
• Note steps which cause a problem
• Improve OHS
• Compare required performance with actual performance
• Identify situations where compliance to specifications or safety standards is unlikely
• Recommend and implement improvements
• Distinguish between random and identifiable causes of work problems
• Identify causes of identified faults and take appropriate action
• Investigate causes of quality deviations
• Undertake root cause analysis
• Identify deviations and patterns

Initiative and enterprise

• Provide feedback on procedures and systems
• Analyse feedback on procedures and systems
• Analyse problems, implications or suggestions for improvements
• Adjust work activity according to changes in work requirements
• Take correct action and follow procedures
• Identify methods of increasing own and team contribution to the value chain
• Recommend changes and improvements
• Take action to make improvements
• Implement changes
• Monitor actions to ensure cost efficiency
• Implement 5 S procedures
• Implement work practices to reduce waste

Planning and organising

• Plan own work and work of team to meet required standards
• Ensure the work area complies with OHS procedures
• Organise processes, tools and materials
• Implement improvements in accordance with procedures
• Monitor and adjust production/process
• Distinguish between essential and non-essential practices
• Set the workplace in order
• Implement use of planning tools within work of team
• Implement 5 S procedures
• Determine and prioritise required actions
• Collect and organise information from work activity

Self-management

• Conduct all work activities according to safety and workplace standards
• Implement and maintain housekeeping standards
• Achieve production outcomes
• Monitor own performance
• Interpret data and information as required by own job
• Ask questions to ensure understanding of own work requirements
• Recommend methods of increasing own contribution to the value chain
• Adjust work processes according to procedures
• Identify and manage impacts in own work area
• Monitor resource use and minimise waste in own work activity
• Keep the workplace clean and tidy
• Assess own work

Learning

• Attend skill development training
• Adapt to changing work requirements
• Ask questions to aid learning
• Identify skill requirements of self and team members
• Seek skills development and training to meet needs
• Identify personal skill gaps and additional skills needs
• Ask questions to ensure understanding of own work requirements
• Monitor own work and identify areas for improvement
• Seek feedback on work performance
• Provide feedback on work performance

Technology

• Work with technology safely and according to workplace standards
• Identify equipment and processes appropriate for job and skill level
• Handle and use equipment correctly and safely and within skill level
• Assess operational efficiency of technology within own skill level and that of team members
• Recognise and report faulty operation of equipment
• Collect and apply data and information from technology
• Use information technology appropriate for job
• Apply maintenance procedures appropriate to job and skill level

Unit code 

Unit title 

MSACMS200A

Apply competitive manufacturing practices

Unit code 

Unit title 

MSACMS201A

Sustain process improvements

MSACMS401A

Ensure process improvements are sustained

MSACMS405A

Lead a manufacturing team using a balanced score card approach

Unit code 

Unit title 

MSACMC210A

Manage the impact of change on own work

MSACMC410A

Lead change in a manufacturing environment

MSACMC411A

Lead a competitive manufacturing team

MSACMC413A

Lead team culture improvement

Unit code 

Unit title 

Prerequisite 

MSACMT421A

Facilitate a Just in Time (JIT) system

MSACMT423A

Monitor a manufacturing levelled pull system

MSACMT430A

Improve cost factors in work practices

MSACMT432A

Analyse manual handling processes

MSACMT440A

Lead 5S in a manufacturing environment

MSACMT441A

Facilitate continuous improvement in manufacturing

MSACMT450A

Undertake process capability improvements

MSACMT452A

MSACMT451A

Mistake proof a production process

MSACMT452A

Apply statistics to processes in Manufacturing

MSACMT453A

Use six sigma techniques

MSACMT452A

MSACMT460A

Use planning software systems in manufacturing

MSACMT260A

MSACMT461A

Facilitate SCADA systems in manufacturing team or work area

MSACMT261A

MSACMT481A

Undertake proactive maintenance analyses

MSACMT482A

Assist in implementing a proactive maintenance strategy

MSACMT483A

Support proactive maintenance

MSAPMSUP390A

Use structured problem solving tools

Unit code 

Unit title 

MSACMT220A

Apply quick changeover procedures

MSACMT221A

Apply Just in Time (JIT) procedures

MSACMT230A

Apply cost factors to work practices

MSACMT231A

Interpret product costs in terms of customer requirements

MSACMT240A

Apply 5S procedures in a manufacturing environment

MSACMT250A

Monitor process capability

MSACMT251A

Apply quality standards

MSACMT260A

Use planning software systems in manufacturing

MSACMT261A

Use SCADA systems in manufacturing

MSACMT270A

Use sustainable energy practices

MSACMT271A

Use sustainable environmental practices

MSACMT280A

Undertake root cause analysis

MSACMT281A

Contribute to the application of a proactive maintenance strategy

MSAENV272B

Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices

Up to four (4) relevant units may be selected from this Training Package, other endorsed Training Packages and accredited courses, where those units are available for inclusion at Certificates II, III or IV. 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.