Key Takeaways and Benefits

This programme will help to develop your transition from frontline manager to business person, giving you the commercial understanding and technical skills to play a bigger role in your organisation. In the age of Industry 4.0, when the challenges and opportunities are too great for top-down direction alone, we will give you the know-how to help deliver digital transformation from the bottom up.

You shall gain the tools and techniques to coach people, to manage processes and to detect opportunities for continuous improvement. Discover a range of business skills to understand company strategy, the drivers of cost and value and how to have a bigger impact on customer and supplier relationships.

The Advanced Manufacturing Leadership Programme will be the first step in enhancing your current job quality. Increasing your potential to make a wider contribution to your company’s success, it offers talented, motivated individuals a pathway from supervisor to company management.

On the Advanced Manufacturing Leadership Programme you will;

• Boost your personal management capabilities with cutting edge leadership practices and insights
• Learn how to lead your team with confidence
• Implement practical tools and techniques for effective manufacturing operations
• Increase sustainability
• Enhance labour productivity
• Embrace digital transformation
• Address competitive pressures of Industry 4.0
• Apply frameworks to analyse industries, customers, and firms, using these tools to identify opportunities for value creation and innovation

Participant Profile

This programme is for manufacturing sector supervisors and those aspiring to rise to mid-level management.

As a manufacturing supervisor you will have excellent knowledge of processes or operations, understand the recurring issues and are best placed to suggest improvements. Your next step is to acquire the range of skills to lead in a manufacturing environment.

Inspired by German leadership-development practices, the Advanced Manufacturing Leadership Programme boosts the capabilities of one of the most valuable assets in any manufacturing operation, its supervisors and team leaders.

Class Format and Dates

This is an immersive five month programme delivered over 16 days on campus at The William J. Clinton Leadership Institute, Riddel Hall and at the Northern Ireland Technology Centre, Stranmillis. Our Clinton Leadership Institute Learning Management System will support your learning throughout with videos, podcasts and reading materials.

What are past participants saying about this programme?

“I found the material to be beneficial as the world is evolving and this has a direct impact upon industry now and preparing for the future. I found the modules insightful and well-pitched for developing industry leaders.” Martin Moffett - Change Project Manager, Spirit Aerosystems 

“The in-depth knowledge of the lecturers on the course helped me to better understand topics that I had some prior knowledge of, they engaged in open discussion and gave relevant examples and ideas of where the tools and techniques can be applied." Paul Davidson - Design Manager, Ryobi Aluminium Casting UK Ltd