Junior Lean Consultant - On-Site Impact & Growth

Kaizen Institute; Sydney; On-site; AUD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Annual performance bonus

International opportunities

Phone budget

Continuous training and mentoring

Annual training week 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, applying Lean and Kaizen methods to improve operational processes.

This hands-on, client-facing role offers exposure to leadership teams, measurable business impact from day one, and opportunities to develop your consulting skills through real-world projects

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.

Responsibilities

• Lead and facilitate transformation and redesign workshops, co-designing improvement proposals with multidisciplinary client teams using Kaizen and Lean tools.
• 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 KPIs.
• Prepare client-facing deliverables including reports, presentations, improvement roadmaps, and final documentation of outcomes and recommendations.
• This is a hands-on, client-facing role carried out at customer sites with direct access to decision-makers and leadership teams.

Skills

Analytical skills

Team player

Communication skills

Problem solving

Willingness to learn

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) in Mechanical Engineering

Double Degree in Engineering (Honours) with Commerce

Master of Engineering / Industrial Engineering / Engineering Management

Tools

Microsoft 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, applying Lean and Kaizen methods to improve operational processes.

This hands-on, client-facing role offers exposure to leadership teams, measurable business impact from day one, and opportunities to develop your consulting skills through real-world projects