Junior Lean Consultant – Global Training & Growth

Kaizen Institute; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual performance bonus

Career progression and mentorship

International project opportunities

Mobile phone budget/update

Training & mentoring

Annual training trip abroad

Job summary

Kaizen Institute Australia is seeking highly motivated, recently graduated engineers to join our consulting team as Junior Consultants. You will work on client engagements across manufacturing, healthcare, logistics, and financial services, leading analysis and process improvement using Lean and Kaizen methodologies.

This is a hands-on, client-facing role with direct access to leadership teams and the potential to deliver measurable business impact from day one.

Qualifications

• Recent graduate with a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) in Mechanical or Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering, a Double Degree in Engineering (Honours) with Commerce or Project Management, or a Master of Engineering, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering or Mechanical Engineering.
• Legal right to work in Australia: employer sponsorship is not available for this role.
• Strong analytical skills, curious, and driven to solve problems, with comfort working with quantitative data.
• A true team player with excellent written and verbal communication skills, empathy, and the ability to present ideas clearly to client teams and foster collaboration.
• Proactive mindset, adaptable, and a strong willingness to learn and grow in a challenging environment.
• Project management knowledge, including the ability to manage timelines, prioritise tasks, and coordinate with teams to meet client objectives.
• Willingness to travel and work on-site with clients; a current driving licence is required.
• Available to work full-time.

Responsibilities

• Conduct an initial assessment of client operations, including preliminary data collection and observation of current processes.
• Analyse quantitative and qualitative data to identify improvement opportunities within client operations.
• Map and assess end-to-end processes using Value Stream Mapping and other Lean diagnostic tools to uncover inefficiencies, waste, and bottlenecks.
• Lead and facilitate transformation and redesign workshops, co-designing improvement proposals with multidisciplinary client teams using Kaizen and Lean tools suited to the problem context.
• Redesign operations to drive measurable, evidence-based performance improvements, translating strategic objectives into practical, executable solutions.
• Support the implementation of pilot improvement initiatives and monitor early results against defined key performance indicators.
• Prepare client-facing deliverables including reports, presentations, improvement roadmaps, and final documentation of outcomes and recommendations.

Skills

Analytical skills

Team player

Communication skills

Willingness to travel

On-site work

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) in Mechanical Engineering

Master of Engineering / Engineering Management

Commerce double degree

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Job description

Kaizen Institute Australia is seeking highly motivated, recently graduated engineers to join our consulting team as Junior Consultants. You will work on client engagements across manufacturing, healthcare, logistics, and financial services, leading analysis and process improvement using Lean and Kaizen methodologies.

This is a hands-on, client-facing role with direct access to leadership teams and the potential to deliver measurable business impact from day one.