Certificate IV in Sustainable Operations - MSS40122
Australian Institute of Management Education and Training
Type of institution: Higher Education Institutions
Level: Vocational Education and Training (VET)
CRICOS: 03769D
This qualification specifies the skills and knowledge required to identify, implement and report on sustainability related initiatives within a section of a large enterprise, such as a defined work area, work team or stage of production, or across a small or medium enterprise. It applies to job roles with a specific focus on sustainability, such as sustainability officer or sustainability project assistant, and to other roles that assist with implementation of sustainability, such as technical personnel, team leaders or senior operators. The qualification provides specialist sustainability competencies to assist organisations to identify and implement initiatives to meet their sustainability goals and to meet their obligations under sustainability related regulatory arrangements, government initiatives and voluntary standards and codes that may apply. This qualification has no formal entry requirement due to the wide variety of sustainability applications in industry. However, most enterprises will expect the learner to hold operational or technical skills and experience in a vocational field and the qualification is not recommended for direct entry from school.No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this qualification at the time of publication.
Subjects
- Apply environmental management procedures
- Enable traceability in supply chains
- Assess and advise on waste avoidance options
- Apply circularity design thinking to all work streams
- Implement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practices
- Manage fundamental aspects of supply chains
- Use planning software systems in operations
- Apply project stakeholder engagement techniques
- Facilitate team engagement with sustainability
- Implement waste management plans
- Develop a business case for improved energy management
- Plan, implement and monitor energy management
- Lead digital supply chain implementation
- Investigate energy management as a business issue
- Evaluate sustainability impact from a work area or process
- Coordinate environmental management activities
- Implement sustainability plans
- Undertake environmental field-based monitoring
- Facilitate breakthrough improvements
- Assist in the analysis of a supply chain
- Participate in environmental field work
- Implement social sustainability in work practices
- Review procedures to minimise environmental impact of process
- Improve cost factors in work practices
- Apply project procurement procedures
- Work safely
- Facilitate use of a Balanced Scorecard for performance improvement
- Lead circular economy initiatives in the supply chain
- Source goods/services and evaluate contractors
- Apply business risk management processes
- Measure and report carbon footprint
- Improve sustainability through readily implementable change
- Apply project life cycle management processes
- Optimise sustainability performance of a work area or process
- Undertake root cause analysis
- Develop required sustainability reports
- Apply HACCP to the workplace
Study information
| Campus | Fees | Entry | Mid year intake | Attendance |
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| Online | No |
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