Manufacturing Leadership Certificate

Manufacturing Leadership Certificate

Lead, Improve, and Sustain Your Long-Term Operational and Business Performance

By earning your Manufacturing Leadership Certificate, you will build your knowledge and skills to help you continue to progress your career in manufacturing. The courses are exercise-based with numerous hands-on simulations and are taught by GaMEP instructors who work in more than 300 manufacturing plants each year. Each of the courses will provide you with tactics that can be implemented within your facility immediately.

Upon completion of the certificate program, you will be able to create and support a culture of continuous improvement, communicate with the C-Suite, and align and measure goals within your team and the organization. These skills will help your company reduce costs, increase business, and produce jobs.

Do you need to train multiple people from your company at one time or do you prefer customized training?

GaMEP can bring any of our courses to your facility, and many of our services can be converted into onsite training for you and your team. By having GaMEP come on-site, you can train more employees and customize the material and case studies to meet your organization’s needs. For more information on customized training courses at your plant, contact GaMEP.

GaMEP Open Enrollment Courses

How You Will Benefit

  • Learn to lead, support, and sustain continuous improvement efforts.
  • Refine project management skills, process flow, process and technology integration, and more.
  • Respond quickly to the market.
  • Deliver metrics-driven ideas for improvement to the C-Suite.
  • Measure goals within your team that relate to the organization’s goals.
  • Save time and money.
  • Increase business and boost customer satisfaction.

Program at a Glance

Who Should Participate?

New or rising leaders of a company or those needing a refresher, including plant, operations, and production managers; directors of manufacturing; continual improvement leaders; engineering managers; and any other manufacturing professional with an interest in building and sustaining a culture of continuous improvement.

Delivery Method

Courses are a combination of in-person and online.

Certificate Requirements

  • The certificate program consists of three in-person and two one-hour on-line required courses, as well as two elective courses.
  • Certificates must be completed within six years; courses completed more than six years ago may not be applied toward a certificate.
  • All courses applied to a certificate program must be taken from Georgia Tech

Courses in the Program

Required Courses (Must take all 3)

  • Creating Metrics to Drive Performance
  • Leading for Organizational Excellence
  • Lean Boot Camp: Applying Process Improvement Tools

Required Technology Courses (Choose 2 - 1hr online courses)

  • Additive Manufacturing as a Secondary Process
  • Applications for Robots
  • Automated Systems and Control
  • Industrial Network Integration
  • Integrating Additive
  • Manufacturing with
  • Traditional Manufacturing
  • Intro to Composites

Certificate Requirements

  • Best Practices in Workforce Development: Building Your Team for World-Class Performance
  • ISO 9001:2015 Internal Quality Auditing
  • Lean Office and Administration Lean Tools for Product Development
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Streaming the Project Management Process for Manufacturing
  • Value-Added Safety: Combining Lean Enterprise and Safety Management

Chantrey Reece “I not only learned the importance of good communication, well-defined processes, and employee engagement, but also how to be a good communicator, a leader for process improvement, and how to engage my team so their voices are heard and they buy into the team and organizational goals.” Master Scheduler at BorgWarner

Shun Griffin “My motivation to stay the course was knowing that I need the knowledge that these programs have to offer in order to become an expert in the manufacturing industry.” Researcher Analyst Chemist, Smart Devices Team at Solvay

Chris Shipman “For me, it was not just learning how to solve issues, but teaching my team how to solve them. Since implementing tactics I learned in class, our error rate has decreased, enabling us to make products faster and deliver them to customers quicker than before. Production Manager at CJB Industries

Ready to get started?

GaMEP divides up the state into ten regions led by region managers, who both work and live within the region they serve. Not sure where to start? Contact us and a GaMEP staff member will get in touch with you shortly