Cskills Awards Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Occupational Work Supervision (Construction) (QCF)

What you'll be able to do

• Confirm the plant and/or equipment for the workplace and allocate it to the operations.
• Identify and assess health and safety risks and implement working practices and other safeguards to minimise risks involving the use of plant/equipment.
• Inform decision makers where plant and/or equipment is unsuitable for use in the workplace when allocating and monitoring.
• Provide accurate instructions for the use of plant and/or equipment to operators when allocating and monitoring.
• Inform decision makers promptly when plant and/or equipment is no longer required.

What you'll be able to do

• Co-ordinate with and communicate accurate work information to work colleagues.
• Confirm and measure dimensional controls and maintain them to the specified work requirements.
• Check and adjust measuring and recording equipment to the specified accuracy.
• Identify any deviations in dimensional controls and ensure they are corrected in accordance with work requirements.
• Identify circumstances and conditions that require revision of work practices.

What you'll be able to do

• Provide adequate notice and relevant information about the work, as required, to all people affected by the work.
• Agree a programme and methods of work with the people doing the work.
• Organise the work being done with other operations as required for the overall work being carried out.
• Obtain sufficient resources of the appropriate type to meet the project requirements and timescales.
• Organise and control the work and resources in order to keep the workplace safe and tidy.
• Identify, record and pass information on special considerations to people who may be affected.
• Organise the work are

What you'll be able to do

• Identify work activities, assess required resources and plan the programme of work.
• Obtain clarification and advice where the resources required are not available.
• Evaluate the work activities and the requirements of any significant external factors against the project requirements.
• Identify work activities which influence each other and make the best use of the resources available.
• Identify changed circumstances that require alterations to the work programme and justify them to decision makers.

What you'll be able to do

• Identify quality standards from available information and clearly specify to the people responsible for their implementation.
• Regularly check that work conforms to the design requirements and the specified quality standards.
• Identify work that fails to meet the requirements and quality standards, and implement corrective action.
• Regularly inform decision makers about significant variations in quality standards.

What you'll be able to do

• Assess available project data accurately to determine the occupational method of work.
• Obtain further information from alternative sources in cases where the available project data is insufficient.
• Identify work methods that makes best use of resources and meet project, statutory and contractual requirements.
• Confirm and communicate the selected work method to relevant personnel.

What you'll be able to do

• Identify and implement the organisational and communication needs that are required for the project.
• Implement the agreed methods of communicating, reporting, recording and retrieving information.
• Identify any breakdowns in communication and take action to restore effective communication.
• Implement agreed systems for recording and providing feedback on the ways in which resources are allocated and used.

What you'll be able to do

• Develop, maintain and encourage working relationships to promote good will and trust.
• Inform relevant people about work activities in an appropriate level of detail, with the appropriate level of urgency.
• Offer advice and help to relevant people about work activities and encourage questions, requests for clarification and comments.
• Clarify proposals with relevant people and discuss alternative suggestions.
• Resolve differences of opinion in ways that minimise offence and maintain goodwill, trust and respect.

What you'll be able to do

• Identify poor performance and bring directly to the attention of the team member concerned.
• Provide team members with the opportunity to discus actual or potential problems affecting their performance.
• Agree with team members a course of action which is appropriate, timely and effective.
• Ensure team members have clear, accurate and timely information regarding disciplinary and grievance procedures.

What you'll be able to do

• Allocate and maintain health, safety and welfare equipment and resources to meet project and statutory requirements.
• Encourage a health, safety and welfare culture whilst identifying opportunities for improving the health and safety of the work environment.
• Induct people and check that they are suitably competent and monitored whilst at the workplace.
• Monitor health, safety and welfare in the relevant work environment in accordance with statutory requirements.

What you'll be able to do

• Identify and inform decision makers of inappropriate specified resources and suggest suitable alternatives.
• Identify and quantify deviations from planned progress which may or may have occurred, which could disrupt the programme.
• Confirm the circumstances of any deviations, and agree and implement appropriate corrective actions.
• Identify options which may produce savings in cost and time, and pass onto decision makers.
• Inform decision makers about progress, changes to the operational programme and resource needs.