Apprentice Improvement Technician (Construction Logistics)

CoTrain

London (NW1 8NS)

Closes in 14 days (Wednesday 10 December 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 25 November 2025

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Summary

This apprenticeship is to improve a construction companies logistics. You will learn how construction deliveries are specialised and improve communication, road safety, the environment and working practices.

Wage

£15,311.40 to £24,761.88, depending on your age

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Apprentices can claim a maximum of £25 a week for travel to and from site and all college travel costs via our expenses process.

Training course
Improvement technician (level 3)
Hours
Typical working day will be a 7.30am start and a 5.00pm finish with two breaks a day. No weekend work is required unless arranged in advance.

39 hours a week

Start date

Saturday 10 January 2026

Duration

1 year 2 months

Positions available

1

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you'll do at work

You will be based at the company's office in NW1 and also on various sites across the London area where you will support the site teams with Admin and Traffic Marshall duties.

  • Compliance: Legislative and customer compliance requirements including environment and health and safety
  • Team formation & leadership: Improvement team roles and responsibilities in a change environment
  • Self-development: Different sources for knowledge development
    Project management: Project charter, Gantt chart, reporting documentation, Red Amber Green (RAG) status, communication (verbal and non-verbal channels) and implementation plans
  • Change management: Roles of the manager and leader within change. Influencing, reinforcement and coaching principles
    Principles & methods: Six Sigma principles per ISO13053 (International Organisation for Standardisation), interim containment actions, Lean principles
  • Project selection & scope: Selection matrix, scoping tree
  • Problem definition: Exploratory data analysis, data collection planning, problem and goal statements
  • Process mapping & analysis: Supplier Input Process Output Customer (SIPOC), process mapping, value and waste analysis, performance metrics - discrete data
  • Data acquisition for analysis: Data stratification, sampling theory, data types, variation types and sources, data collection tools, operational definition and principles of measurement error
  • Basic statistics & measures: Control charts - discrete data

Where you'll work

8 Stucley Place
London
NW1 8NS

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

BARNET & SOUTHGATE COLLEGE

Training course

Improvement technician (level 3)

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What you'll learn

Course contents
  • Compliance: Work in accordance with organisational controls and statutory regulations
  • Communication: Share improvement progress through appropriate reporting
  • Project management: Plan, manage and implement improvement activities. Identify and support management of risks. Develop the business case for improvement activity and implementation
  • Change management: Engage through communications. Reinforce – positively and negatively. Effectively coach peers
  • Principles and methods: Use a structured method and appropriate improvement tools engaging with subject matter experts to deliver business benefits
  • Project selection and Scoping: Identify and scope improvement projects and establish clear measurable objectives
  • Problem definition: Develop a problem/opportunity statement supported by validated data
  • Voice of the customer: Apply techniques to identify customers, their requirements and translate these to metrics
  • Process mapping & analysis: Apply process mapping tools to visualise processes, analyse process performance establishing key insights for performance improvement
  • Lean tools: Apply techniques such as identification and removal of 8 wastes, 5S (Sort, Shine, Set, Standardise, Sustain), standard work, kaizen, visual displays and controls, error proofing, preventative maintenance
  • Data acquisition for analysis: Develop data collection plan and validated measurement processes to understand performance
  • Basic statistics & measures: Establish patterns and trends in data over time using tally, pie, run/trend and pareto charts
  • Data analysis-statistical methods: Identify common and special cause variation
  • Process capability & performance: Analyse product/process performance using good quality data
  • Root cause analysis: Use cause and effect diagrams, technique of 5 whys and graphical analysis to understand and verify root causes
  • Identification & prioritisation: Identify and prioritise improvement solutions
  • Benchmarking: Recognise the value of sharing best practice
  • Sustainability & control: Create control and reaction plans with detection measures, identify opportunities to embed changes to leverage benefit to the business.

Training schedule

As you will be based in London, you will attend College on a bi-weekly day release at Euston Station.

The course will also include the following:

  • Traffic Access Marshall Training
  • Site Supervisor Safety Training Scheme
  • Construction Logistics Planning (Foundation and Practitioner levels)
  • Fire Safety Awareness
  • COSHH Awareness

More training information

  • Some training will take place on a live construction site
  • Some courses will be online only
  • Main units will be taught in the classroom

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE in:

English and Mathematics (grade 4)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Communication skills
  • IT skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Number skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Creative
  • Initiative
  • Non judgemental
  • Patience
  • Physical fitness

Other requirements

Being adaptable and willing to deal with a wide range of companies and people.

About this employer

CoTrain is a program under SECBE . As a shared apprenticeship scheme and a Flexible Job Apprenticeship Agency partly funded by CITB to provide a route into industry for anyone wishing to complete an apprenticeship. We employ and mentor the apprentice and place them with our construction partners and colleges to gain the correct experience & skills to complete their qualifications.

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Company benefits

Automatic enrolment onto our Employee Support Program.

After this apprenticeship

  • Progression to Logistics manager
  • Health & Safety manager
  • Training Manager

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

BARNET & SOUTHGATE COLLEGE

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000002367.

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Closes in 14 days (Wednesday 10 December 2025 at 11:59pm)

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