City and Guilds of London Institute · RQF Level 3
City & Guilds Level 3 Diploma in Electrical Power Engineering - Power Plant Maintenance (Mechanical) (NVQ)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits209
- Guided learning1,277 hours
- Units in this qualification20
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.
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
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
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
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
Dismantle and Assemble Gearboxes and DrivesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan to dismantle and assemble gearboxes and drives
- Prepare to dismantle and assemble gearboxes and drives
- Dismantle gearboxes and drives
- Assemble gearboxes and drives
- 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
Dismantle and Assemble Materials Handling PlantReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan to dismantle and assemble materials handling plant
- Prepare to dismantle and assemble materials handling plant
- Dismantle materials handling plant
- Assemble materials handling plant
- 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
Dismantle and Assemble Pumps, Compressors and FansReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan to dismantle and assemble pumps, compressors and fans
- Prepare to dismantle and assemble pumps, compressors and fans
- Dismantle pumps, compressors and fans
- Assemble pumps, compressors and fans
- 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
Dismantle and Assemble ValvesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan to dismantle and assemble valves
- Prepare to dismantle and assemble valves
- Dismantle valves
- Assemble valves
- 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
Fault location and diagnosing faults in power generationReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan to locate and diagnose faults
- Prepare to locate and diagnose faults
- Locate and diagnose faults
- 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
Inspect and Maintain Gearboxes and DrivesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan to inspect and maintain gearboxes and drives
- Prepare to inspect and maintain gearboxes and drives
- Inspect and maintain gearboxes and drives
- 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
Inspect and Maintain Heat Exchangers and VesselsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan to inspect and maintain heat exchangers and vessels
- Prepare to inspect and maintain heat exchangers and vessels
- Inspect and maintain heat exchangers and vessels
- 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
Inspect and Maintain Materials Handling PlantReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan to inspect and maintain materials handling plant
- Prepare to inspect and maintain materials handling plant
- Inspect and maintain materials handling plant
- 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
Inspect and Maintain Pumps, Compressors and FansReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan to inspect and maintain pumps, compressors and fans
- Prepare to inspect and maintain pumps, compressors and fans
- Inspect and maintain pumps, compressors and fans
- 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
Inspect and Maintain Valves and PipeworkReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan to inspect and maintain valves and pipework
- Prepare to inspect and maintain valves and pipework
- Inspect and maintain valves and pipework
- 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
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
Minimise risks to life, property and the environment during power generation 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
- Know and understand general knowledge
- Know and understand general and specific knowledge in the context of the job role
Remove and Replace Gearboxes and DrivesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan to remove and replace gearboxes and drives
- Prepare to remove and replace gearboxes and drives
- Remove gearboxes and drives
- Replace gearboxes and drives
- 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
Remove and Replace Pumps, Compressors and FansReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan to remove and replace pumps, compressors and fans
- Prepare to remove and replace pumps, compressors and fans
- Remove pumps, compressors and fans
- Replace pumps, compressors and fans
- 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
Remove and Replace Valves and PipeworkReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan to remove and replace valves and pipework
- Prepare to remove and replace valves and pipework
- Remove valves and pipework
- Replace valves and pipework
- 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
Work with other peopleReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Perform work with others
- Take a lead role in joint activities
- 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
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.
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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.
- Configure electricity networks to asset owner’s requirements
- Contribute Technical Leadership in the Power Utilities Environment
- Contribute to technical leadership on nuclear decommissioning activities
- Disassemble electrical equipment and systems in engineering construction
- Disassemble instrumentation and control equipment and systems in engineering construction
- Fault location and diagnosis on plant and apparatus in the electricity power utilities
- Inspect and maintain Fire Dampers and Smoke Control Dampers
- Inspecting Furnace and Ladle Linings and Equipment
Where this can lead
Lead Technical Services Director
The journey from Lead Technical Services Director is rich with opportunities, whether you choose to deepen your technical specialisation or broaden your leadership scope. We're here to support your growth and help you chart a path that aligns with your ambitions and our business needs.
See the whole journey →Showing 6 roles, drawn from 30 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 - Power Plant Maintenance (Mechanical) (NVQ)
20 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by City and Guilds of London Institute.
- Authorise Actions on Plant and Apparatus in Electricity Power Utilities Environment
- Complying with statutory regulations and organisational safety requirements
- Contribute to Technical Leadership
- Develop yourself in the work role
- Dismantle and Assemble Gearboxes and Drives
- Dismantle and Assemble Materials Handling Plant
and 14 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
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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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