Spirit AeroSystems Challenge Programme

What is the programme?

Teams of your apprentices are taking on a set of business challenges set by Spirit. These challenges all relate to being able to move towards sustainability goals whilst hitting the businesses objectives.

Over 14 weeks (2 hour per week), the teams will learn how to:

In addition to identifying solutions, participants will be developing skills that can help them in their careers.

  • Break a problem down and identify the root cause

  • Innovate on potential solutions

  • Build a business case for implementation

The challenges they are taking on:

Bin Culture:

Analyse our waste across the business and provide solutions to ensure we manage it in a cost effective and environmentally sound way

Solvents:

Identify potential solutions to optimise solvent usage and viable alternatives to wipes, ensuring we remain compliant with SEPA regulations

Compressed Air:

Explore and propose alternative solutions for business operations where we could replace compressed air with better technologies

The programme structure

Our Challenge Programme is a combination of live events, online modules and independent learning. It is split into three focused sprints.:

  • Sprint 1, "What's the Problem?"

  • Sprint 2, "What's the Solution?"

  • Sprint 3, "What's the Business Case?".

The challenge is running from 13th February to 16th May 2025 for 2 hours per week

1

Adopting a ‘detective mindset’

Identifying factors and constraints

Conducting a root cause analysis

2

Innovation techniques

Making trade offs

Influencing behaviour change

Critical analysis

3

Quantifying ROI

Presenting ideas

How can we get involved?

One of the key benefits of the programme is that it enables apprentices to meet more people from across the business. '

This could be to help them understand different perspectives on the problem, as a sounding board for an idea, or to give them feedback on their presentation.

If you are interested in supporting the teams get in touch with the programme manager Joseph Trodden on joseph@poweringfutures.com