• MSACMC410A - Lead change in a manufacturing environment

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MSACMC410A Mapping and Delivery Guide
Lead change in a manufacturing environment

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Issue Date: March 2024


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Unit of Competency MSACMC410A - Lead change in a manufacturing environment
Description This unit covers the knowledge and skills needed by people who are given the responsibility of leading change processes in a manufacturing organisation. The change may be occurring in manufacturing or in the support functions of maintenance, office, warehousing etc.
Employability Skills This unit contains employability skills.
Learning Outcomes and Application In a typical scenario, change from continuous improvement is a constant in a competitive manufacturing organisation. Change can however be more significant, for example, when the move to competitive manufacturing improvement processes are made, or at other times when significant changes such as the introduction of new products, processes or equipment are made. In these circumstances one or more individuals may have a particular role of leading the change and facilitating its implementation. This unit assumes that consultation between management and workers and other relevant personnel has already occurred and the nature and extent of the change has been agreed. This unit does not cover the negotiation of change in a formal industrial relations sense but does cover the skill needed to identify real or potential change implementation issues including those that may need to be referred to formal consultation and/or dispute settlement procedures.This unit requires the application of skills associated with communication, teamwork, problem solving, initiative, enterprise, planning, organising and self management in order to provide leadership in a change environment. This unit has a strong emphasis on planning and change management, but also requires an ability to learn from experience and feed new information back into strategies to improve performance.
Duration and Setting X weeks, nominally xx hours, delivered in a classroom/online/blended learning setting.
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Competency Field
Development and validation strategy and guide for assessors and learners Student Learning Resources Handouts
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Assessment 1 Assessment 2 Assessment 3 Assessment 4
Elements of Competency Performance Criteria              
Element: Define nature and impact of change
  • Identify enterprise aims and objectives of the change
  • Identify opportunities for implementation of change within team and production environment
  • Determine impacts of change within team and production environment
  • Develop a description of the change, including its potential benefits and impacts on own work and work of team members
       
Element: Identify Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
  • Undertake liaison with managers, engineers and other staff responsible for designing and/or implementing change
  • Identify Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for own and team's area of responsibility
  • Communicate Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to all relevant stakeholders
  • Check that data collection and processing are appropriate for Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
  • Raise and resolve issues related to Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) with relevant personnel
       
Element: Liaise with key stakeholders
  • Identify key stakeholders impacted by the change
  • Communicate with key stakeholders within scope of authority
  • Identify and address issues and concerns of each stakeholder if within scope of authority
  • Develop and/or locate information required to address key concerns
  • Refer issues and concerns outside of scope of authority to appropriate personnel
       
Element: Develop a strategy to help work teams implement change
  • Develop a work plan including timetable, key performance indicators, training needs, occupational health and safety (OHS) implications, contingency plans, and responsibilities with team members and senior managers, engineers and other staff responsible for designing and/or implementing change
  • Make information required to support change available to team members
  • Communicate/circulate draft work plan to team members, supervisors, technical experts and other appropriate personnel for comment
  • Assess suggested changes and incorporated into work plan where appropriate
       
Element: Implement change
  • Obtain authorisation to commence change implementation in accordance with enterprise procedures
  • Implement change in accordance with work plan and enterprise OHS and consultation procedures
       
Element: Monitor implementation of change
  • Maintain open communication channels with all stakeholders during implementation
  • Monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) during implementation
  • Encourage and facilitate improvement suggestions of team members
  • Identify areas requiring improvement in change implementation
  • Make improvements to implementation according to enterprise procedures
       


Evidence Required

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The Evidence Guide provides advice on assessment and must be read in conjunction with the performance criteria, required skills and knowledge, the range statement and the assessment guidelines for this training package.

Overview of assessment requirements

The competent person would be able to facilitate the implementation of change by effective communication with all relevant people and by facilitating improvements to the change.

What critical aspects of evidence are required to demonstrate competency in this unit?

Evidence of changes facilitated would be required.

In what context should assessment occur?

Assessment needs to occur in an organisation implementing a significant change either to, or in a competitive manufacturing environment or by a project.

Are there any other units which could or should be assessed with this unit or which relate directly to this unit?

This unit could be assessed concurrently with other team leader units dealing with change/improvement in the organisation.

What method of assessment should apply?

Assessors must be satisfied that the person can consistently perform the unit as a whole, as defined by the elements, performance criteria, skills and knowledge. A holistic approach should be taken to the assessment.

Assessors should gather sufficient, fair, valid, reliable, authentic and current evidence from a range of sources. Sources of evidence may include direct observation, reports from supervisors, peers and colleagues, project work, samples, organisation records and questioning. Assessment should not require language, literacy or numeracy skills beyond those required for the unit.

The assessee will have access to all techniques, procedures, information, resources and aids which would normally be available in the workplace.

The method of assessment should be discussed and agreed with the assessee prior to the commencement of the assessment.

What evidence is required for demonstration of consistent performance?

Evidence from one significant change may be sufficient. For less significant changes, a range of changes will be needed to generate sufficient evidence.

What are the specific resource requirements for this unit?

Access to an organisation implementing a significant change to or in competitive manufacturing.


Submission Requirements

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Assessment Tasks

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Required skills:

communication techniques

negotiation skills

information finding and analysing/using skills

teamwork.

Required knowledge:

sufficient understanding of the process to contextualise the communication and understand the data requirements to produce the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

project management

motivational techniques.

The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included.

Competitive manufacturing

Competitive manufacturing is used to describe the range of systemic manufacturing practice concepts and approaches. It covers but is not limited to:

lean manufacturing

agile manufacturing

preventative and predictive maintenance approaches

monitoring and data gathering systems such as Systems Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)software, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)systems, Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP), and proprietary systems such as SAP etc.

statistical process control systems including six sigma and three sigma

Just in Time (JIT), kanban and other pull related manufacturing control systems

supply, value, and demand chain monitoring and analysis

other continuous improvement systems.

Competitive manufacturing should be interpreted so as to take into account the stage of implementation of competitive manufacturing approaches, the enterprise's size and work organisation, culture, regulatory environment and manufacturing sector.

Team

Team may include work teams from all sections of the organisation including production, maintenance, technical, administration/finance, sales/marketing.

Change

The philosophy of continual improvement is that every process can and should be continually evaluated and improved in terms of time required, resources used, resultant quality, and other aspects relevant to the process.

Superimposed on this is the concept of breakthrough change when a large change/improvement is made which can shift the direction or operation of the organisation. Once such breakthrough change is the introduction of competitive manufacturing.

Issues and concerns

Issues and concerns may be communicated formally and informally and can include individual and group concerns as well as those expressed by and through industrial processes.

Work plan

A work plan can be written or informal but must include consideration of timetable, key performance indicators, training needs, OHS implications, contingency plans and responsibilities. The work plan must be capable of being coherently communicated to others.

Copy and paste from the following performance criteria to create an observation checklist for each task. When you have finished writing your assessment tool every one of these must have been addressed, preferably several times in a variety of contexts. To ensure this occurs download the assessment matrix for the unit; enter each assessment task as a column header and place check marks against each performance criteria that task addresses.

Observation Checklist

Tasks to be observed according to workplace/college/TAFE policy and procedures, relevant legislation and Codes of Practice Yes No Comments/feedback
Identify enterprise aims and objectives of the change 
Identify opportunities for implementation of change within team and production environment 
Determine impacts of change within team and production environment 
Develop a description of the change, including its potential benefits and impacts on own work and work of team members 
 
Undertake liaison with managers, engineers and other staff responsible for designing and/or implementing change 
Identify Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for own and team's area of responsibility 
Communicate Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to all relevant stakeholders 
Check that data collection and processing are appropriate for Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) 
Raise and resolve issues related to Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) with relevant personnel 
 
Identify key stakeholders impacted by the change 
Communicate with key stakeholders within scope of authority 
Identify and address issues and concerns of each stakeholder if within scope of authority 
Develop and/or locate information required to address key concerns 
Refer issues and concerns outside of scope of authority to appropriate personnel 
 
Develop a work plan including timetable, key performance indicators, training needs, occupational health and safety (OHS) implications, contingency plans, and responsibilities with team members and senior managers, engineers and other staff responsible for designing and/or implementing change 
Make information required to support change available to team members 
Communicate/circulate draft work plan to team members, supervisors, technical experts and other appropriate personnel for comment 
Assess suggested changes and incorporated into work plan where appropriate 
 
Obtain authorisation to commence change implementation in accordance with enterprise procedures 
Implement change in accordance with work plan and enterprise OHS and consultation procedures 
 
Maintain open communication channels with all stakeholders during implementation 
Monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) during implementation 
Encourage and facilitate improvement suggestions of team members 
Identify areas requiring improvement in change implementation 
Make improvements to implementation according to enterprise procedures 
 

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