City and Guilds of London Institute · RQF Level 3
City & Guilds Level 3 Diploma in Electrical Power Engineering - Power Plant Maintenance (NVQ)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits89
- Guided learning513 hours
- Units in this qualification11
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
Coordinate a response to a unit contingencyReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Initiate a response to a contingency
- Coordinate a response to contingency
- 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
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
Evaluate and solve problems associated with an electricity generation unitReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Assess and evaluate information
- Investigate the extent of the problem
- Resolve problems and prevent future incidents
- 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
Handover and Accept Responsibility for the Operation an Electricity Generation UnitReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for the handover of the unit
- Handover responsibility for operation of the unit
- Accept responsibility for operation of the unit
- 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
Isolate and de-isolate an electricity generation systemReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Isolating a system
- De-isolating a system
- 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
Routine testing of an electricity generating systemReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to conduct routine tests on a system
- Conduct routine tests on a system
- 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
Start up and shut down an electricity generation unitReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan for start up and shut down operations
- Control start up and shut down operations
- 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.
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.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
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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Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
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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.
- Build teams and allocate work to team members
- Co-ordinating Work Activities on Plant and Apparatus
- Contribute to the management of unplanned situations on the utility network and assets
- Evaluate and solve problems in the operation of a generation unit in the power utilities environment
- Evaluate operational processes used on electricity network assets
- Handover and accept control of plant operation in a nuclear power plant
- Investigate incidents relating to electricity network assets
- Lead the work of teams and individuals to achieve objectives
Where this can lead
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See the whole journey →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 (NVQ)
11 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
- Coordinate a response to a unit contingency
- Develop yourself in the work role
- Evaluate and solve problems associated with an electricity generation unit
- Handover and Accept Responsibility for the Operation an Electricity Generation Unit
and 5 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.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.