Pearson Education Ltd · RQF Level 2
Pearson BTEC Level 2 Extended Certificate in Engineering (Specialist: Manufacturing Engineering)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits30
- Guided learning180 hours
- Units in this qualification26
Awarded by Pearson Education Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Pearson Education Ltd 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.
Application of Quality Control and Measurement in EngineeringReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Use comparators and gauges to monitor the quality of given products
- Use measuring equipment to monitor the quality of given products
- Know about dimensional tolerances and grades of fit
- Know about quality and quality control as applied to manufacturing products
Application of Welding ProcessesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about health and safety legislation and safe working practices when welding
- Prepare for work in a welding environment
- Produce joints to welding standards
- Perform destructive and non-destructive tests on welded joints
Applied Electrical and Mechanical Science for EngineeringReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Define and apply concepts and principles relating to electrical science
- Define and apply concepts and principles relating to mechanical science
Applying Continuous Improvement and Problem Solving TechniquesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know different types of philosophies used to improve the performance of an organisation
- Know the concept and techniques of continuous improvement
- Use quality tools to solve manufacturing problems
- Use continuous improvement and problem solving techniques
Casting and Moulding Engineering ComponentsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about material melting processes and component removal
- Know how sand and investment casting processes are used
- Know how a range of die casting processes are used
- Know how plastic moulding processes are used
Electronic Circuit ConstructionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Use safe working practices in the electronic labouratory/workshop
- Know about electronic components and circuit diagrams
- Know about the manufacture of electronic circuit boards
- Construct an electronic circuit
Electronic Devices and Communication ApplicationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know the types of signals and units of measurement used in electronic systems
- Know the function of electronic components and devices
- Construct and test analogue and digital electronic circuits
- Understand electronic communication systems and data transmission
Engineering Assembly Methods and TechniquesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Use tools, equipment and measuring instruments safely
- Assemble components to engineering equipment
Engineering Maintenance ProceduresReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about engineering maintenance purposes, procedures and resources
- Plan and carry out a maintenance activity on a non-complex engineering system
Engineering Marking OutReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about marking out methods and equipment for different applications
- Mark out engineering workpieces to specification
Fabrication Techniques and Sheet Metal WorkReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know the safe working practices used in a fabrication workshop and relevant health and safety legislation
- Measure and mark out materials for fabricated structures
- Cut and form materials safely in a sheet metal fabrication environment
- Join and accurately assemble fabricated structures
Interpreting and Using Engineering InformationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret drawings and related documentation
- Use information from drawings and related documentation
Mathematics for Engineering TechniciansReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Use arithmetic, algebraic and graphical methods to solve engineering problems
- Use mensuration and trigonometry to solve engineering problems
Operation and Maintenance of Electrical Systems and ComponentsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know the workplace hazards and health and safety requirements associated with electrical maintenance operations
- Know the operation of electrical systems and circuits
- Understand the selection, function and operation of electrical system components
- Fault-find and carry out routine maintenance activities on electrical components and systems
Operation and Maintenance of Electronic Systems and ComponentsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know the workplace hazards and health and safety requirements associated with electronic maintenance operations
- Know the operation of electronic systems and circuits
- Understand the selection, function and operation of electronic system components
- Fault-find and carry out routine maintenance activities on electronic systems and components
Operation and Maintenance of Fluid Power Systems and ComponentsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know the health and safety regulations and precautions that need to be observed when working with fluid power systems
- Read and interpret fluid power symbols and diagrams
- Know the construction, operation and practical application of fluid power system components and equipment
- Carry out testing, fault diagnosis and maintenance activities on fluid power equipment and systems
Operation and Maintenance of Mechanical Systems and ComponentsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know the workplace hazards and health and safety requirements associated with mechanical maintenance operations
- Know the operation of mechanical systems
- Understand the selection, function and operation of mechanical system components
- Fault-find and carry out routine maintenance activities on mechanical components and systems
Part Programming CNC MachinesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Write a plan for a CNC machine from a product specification
- Write a part program for safe use on a CNC machine
- Run part programs on a CNC machine, complying with all relevant health and safety precautions
- Carry out a proof-reading procedure for a CNC program and check conformity to specification
Preparing and Controlling Engineering Manufacturing OperationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare a work area for a manufacturing operation according to defined procedures in a safe manner
- Control a manufacturing operation in a safe manner according to defined operating procedures
Production Planning for EngineeringReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about scales of production and the processes and equipment used in manufacturing organisations
- Prepare and cost an outline production plan from a given product specification
Selecting Engineering MaterialsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the properties of common engineering materials
- Know how engineering materials are identified
Selecting and Using Secondary Machining Techniques to Remove MaterialReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know how a range of secondary machining techniques is used
- Know how work-holding devices and tools are used
- Use a secondary machining technique safely and accurately to make a workpiece
- Know about aspects of health and safety relative to secondary machining techniques
Using Computer Aided Drawing Techniques in EngineeringReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Start up and close down hardware and software in order to perform CAD activities
- Produce CAD drawings
- Modify engineering drawings using CAD commands
- Store and retrieve engineering drawings for printing/plotting
Using Specialist Secondary Machining TechniquesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know how a range of specialist secondary machining techniques are used
- Use a specialist secondary machining technique safely to accurately make a workpiece
Working Safely and Effectively in EngineeringReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Apply statutory regulations and organisational safety requirements
- Work efficiently and effectively in engineering.
Workplace Organisation and Standard Operating ProceduresReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principle of the 5S/5C process
- Know about methods of visual control
- Produce a standard operating procedure (SOP)
- Know how visual display techniques are used
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 2 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.
- Apply Continuous Improvement Principles to Your Work
- Apply Continuous Improvement Principles to an Experimental Process
- Apply company organisation techniques when performing building products operations
- Applying workplace organisation techniques
- Assist in investigating incidents relating to engineering activities
- Manufacturing vehicle components by resin casting
- Mark out materials to the required specification
- Programming CNC machines to produce pattern or model components
Where this can lead
Continuous Improvement Engineer
This role isn't just a job; it's a launchpad for a career dedicated to making things better. Whether you want to lead teams, become a deep technical expert, or eventually shape the operational strategy of a large organisation, the foundations you build here will set you up for long-term success. We're investing in people who want to make a real difference, and we'll support you every step of the way.
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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 Pearson BTEC Level 2 Extended Certificate in Engineering (Specialist: Manufacturing Engineering)
26 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- Application of Quality Control and Measurement in Engineering
- Application of Welding Processes
- Applied Electrical and Mechanical Science for Engineering
- Applying Continuous Improvement and Problem Solving Techniques
- Casting and Moulding Engineering Components
- Electronic Circuit Construction
and 20 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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