City and Guilds of London Institute · RQF Level 3
City & Guilds Level 3 Diploma in Electrical Power Engineering - Lead Substation Crafts Person (NVQ) (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits147
- Guided learning120 hours
- Units in this qualification18
Awarded by City and Guilds of London Institute · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units City and Guilds of London Institute registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Access and Egress the HV Substation Work AreaReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Access, movement and egress in and from a site and work area
- Restore and reinstate work location
- Use and communicate information and data
- Resolve problems effectively and efficiently
- Demonstrate general knowledge and understanding about Access and Egress the HV Substation Work Area
- Demonstrate specific knowledge and understanding about Access and Egress the HV Substation Work Area
Authorise Actions on Plant and Apparatus in Electricity Power Utilities EnvironmentReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan and prepare for work activates
- Issue authorisations
- Cancel, transfer & suspend authorisations
- Restore and reinstate work location
- Use and communicate data and information
- Resolve problems effectively and efficiently
- Know and understand how to use general knowledge
- Know and understand how to use industry and context specific knowledge
Carry out Switching activities on the HV NetworkReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan for switching operation on plant and apparatus
- Prepare for switching operations on plant and apparatus
- Perform switching operations on plant and apparatus
- Restore and reinstate work location
- Use and communicate data and information
- Resolve problems effectively and efficiently
- Demonstrate general knowledge and understanding about Carry out Switching activities on the HV Network
- Demonstrate specific knowledge and understanding about Carry out Switching activities on the HV Network
Carry out Test Activities on Transmission Protection EquipmentReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan for work activities
- Prepare for work activities
- Replace plant and apparatus
- Restore and reinstate work location
- Use and communicate data and information
- Resolve problems effectively and efficiently
- Demonstrate general knowledge and understanding about Carry out Maintenance Activities on Transmission Protection Equipment
- Demonstrate specific knowledge and understanding about Carry out Maintenance Activities on Transmission Protection Equipment
Complying with statutory regulations and organisational safety requirementsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Comply with statutory regulations and organisational safety requirements
- Comply with statutory regulations and organisational safety requirements
Configure Transmission Ancillary Equipment to Meet Operational RequirementsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan to configure plant and apparatus
- Prepare to configure plant and apparatus
- Configure plant and apparatus
- Restore and reinstate work location
- Use and communicate data and information
- Resolve problems effectively and efficiently
- Demonstrate general knowledge and understanding about Configure Transmission Ancillary Equipment to Meet Operational Requirements
- Demonstrate specific knowledge and understanding about Configure Transmission Ancillary Equipment to Meet Operational Requirements
Contribute to Technical LeadershipReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Contribute to evaluation and analysis of potential technical problems
- Communicate information
- Resolve problems effectively and efficiently
- Know and understand how to use general knowledge
- Know and understand how to use industry and context specific knowledge
Coordinate Maintenance Activities on Transmission Auxiliary EquipmentReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan to assign work activities
- Prepare to assign work activities
- Monitor and coordinate work activities
- Restore and reinstate work location
- Use and communicate data and information
- Resolve problems effectively and efficiently
- Demonstrate general knowledge and understanding about Coordinate Maintenance Activities on Transmission Auxiliary Equipment
- Demonstrate specific knowledge and understanding about Coordinate Maintenance Activities on Transmission Auxiliary Equipment
Coordinate Maintenance Activities on Transmission Compressed Air SystemsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan to assign work activities
- Prepare to assign work activities
- Monitor and coordinate work activities
- Restore and reinstate work location
- Use and communicate data and information
- Resolve problems effectively and efficiently
- Demonstrate general knowledge and understanding about Coordinate Maintenance Activities on Transmission Compressed Air Systems
- Demonstrate specific knowledge and understanding about Coordinate Maintenance Activities on Transmission Compressed Air Systems
Coordinate Maintenance Activities on Transmission SwitchgearReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan to assign work activities
- Prepare to assign work activities
- Monitor and coordinate work activities
- Restore and reinstate work location
- Use and communicate data and information
- Resolve problems effectively and efficiently
- Demonstrate general knowledge and understanding about Coordinate Maintenance Activities on Transmission Switchgear
- Demonstrate specific knowledge and understanding about Coordinate Maintenance Activities on Transmission Switchgear
Coordinate Maintenance Activities on Transmission TransformersReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan to assign work activities
- Prepare to assign work activities
- Monitor and coordinate work activities
- Restore and reinstate work location
- Use and communicate data and information
- Resolve problems effectively and efficiently
- Demonstrate general knowledge and understanding about Coordinate Maintenance Activities on Transmission Transformers
- Demonstrate specific knowledge and understanding about Coordinate Maintenance Activities on Transmission Transformers
Develop yourself in the work roleReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Develop yourself in the work role
- Know and understand how to use general knowledge
- Know and understand how to use industry and context specific knowledge
Emergency Response to Substation Transmission Plant FailureReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan to respond to an emergency
- Prepare to respond to an emergency
- Isolation of the fault and contingency action
- Diagnosis fault and recommend remedial actions
- Restore and reinstate work location
- Use and communicate data and information
- Resolve problems effectively and efficiently
- Demonstrate general knowledge and understanding about Emergency Response to Substation Transmission Plant Failure
- Demonstrate specific knowledge and understanding about Emergency Response to Substation Transmission Plant Failure
Install Substation Transmission Plant and EquipmentReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan to install plant and apparatus
- Prepare to install plant and apparatus
- Install plant and apparatus
- Restore and reinstate work location
- Use and communicate data and information
- Resolve problems effectively and efficiently
- Demonstrate general knowledge and understanding about Install Substation Transmission Plant and Equipment
- Demonstrate specific knowledge and understanding about Install Substation Transmission Plant and Equipment
Lead the Work of Teams and Individuals to Achieve Work ObjectivesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Lead the work planning of teams and individuals
- Assess the work of teams and individuals
- Provide feedback to team and individuals
- Use and communicate data and information
- Know and understand how to use general knowledge
- Know and understand how to use industry and context specific knowledge
Maintain Safety from the Electrical System – _Control of Working Parties_Real unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan to control working parties
- Prepare to control working parties
- Control work activities of working parties
- Restore and reinstate work location
- Use and communicate data and information on process operations and activities
- Resolve problems effectively and efficiently
- Demonstrate general knowledge and understanding about Maintain Safety from the Electrical System – (Control of Working Parties)
- Demonstrate specific knowledge and understanding about Maintain Safety from the Electrical System – (Control of Working Parties)
Maintain Substation Transmission Plant and EquipmentReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan to maintain plant and apparatus
- Prepare to maintain plant and apparatus
- Maintain plant and apparatus
- Restore and reinstate work location
- Use and communicate data and information
- Resolve problems effectively and efficiently
- Demonstrate general knowledge and understanding about Maintain Substation Transmission Plant and Equipment
- Demonstrate specific knowledge and understanding about Maintain Substation Transmission Plant and Equipment
Protect the Environment During Transmission Maintenance ActivitiesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan to minimise risk to life, property and the environment
- Determine, priorities and monitor risk to life, property and the environment
- Restore and reinstate work location
- Use and communicate data and information
- Resolve problems effectively and efficiently
- Demonstrate general knowledge and understanding about Protect the environment during Transmission Maintenance Activities
- Demonstrate specific knowledge and understanding about Protect the environment during Transmission Maintenance Activities
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 3 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Access, movement and egress in the electricity power utilities environment
- Configure equipment for use in the power utilities environment
- Contribute Technical Leadership in the Power Utilities Environment
- Contribute to technical leadership on nuclear decommissioning activities
- Lead the work of teams and individuals to achieve their objective
- Replace Plant and Apparatus in Electricity Power Utilities Environment
- Replace Plant and Apparatus in the Electricity Power Utilities Environment Legacy
- Respond to plant and equipment alarms in a nuclear power plant
Where this can lead
Work Order Coordinator
Your journey here starts with making sure our maintenance runs like clockwork, but where it goes next is really up to you. Whether you want to specialise in system optimisation, lead a team, or eventually shape the strategic direction of our assets, this role provides a solid foundation for a rewarding career in Operations.
See the whole journey →Showing 6 roles, drawn from 92 job records mapped to this qualification.
Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for City & Guilds Level 3 Diploma in Electrical Power Engineering - Lead Substation Crafts Person (NVQ) (QCF)
18 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by City and Guilds of London Institute.
- Access and Egress the HV Substation Work Area
- Authorise Actions on Plant and Apparatus in Electricity Power Utilities Environment
- Carry out Switching activities on the HV Network
- Carry out Test Activities on Transmission Protection Equipment
- Complying with statutory regulations and organisational safety requirements
- Configure Transmission Ancillary Equipment to Meet Operational Requirements
and 12 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
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