Pearson Education Ltd · RQF Level 3
Pearson Edexcel Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Engineering Toolmaking (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits105
- Guided learning120 hours
- Units in this qualification46
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.
Assembling blow mould toolsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Assemble blow mould tools
- 1b. Assemble blow mould tools (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to assemble blow mould tools
- 2b. Know how to assemble blow mould tools (Continued)
Assembling diesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Assemble dies
- 1b. Assemble dies (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to assemble dies
- 2b. Know how to assemble dies (Continued)
Assembling injection mould toolsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Assemble injection mould tools
- 1b. Assemble injection mould tools (Continued)
- 2b. Know how to assemble injection mould tools
- 2b. Know how to assemble injection mould tools (Continued)
Assembling jig and fixture structures using a manual welding processReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Assemble jig and fixture structures using manual welding process
- 1b. Assemble jig and fixture structures using manual welding process (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to assemble jig and fixture structures using manual welding process
- 2b. Know how to assemble jig and fixture structures using manual welding process (Continued)
Assembling jigs and fixtures using mechanical methodsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Assemble jigs and fixtures using mechanical methods
- 1b. Assemble jigs and fixtures using mechanical methods (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to assemble jigs and fixtures using mechanical methods
- 2b. Know how to assemble jigs and fixtures using mechanical methods (Continued)
Assembling press toolsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Assemble press tools
- 1b. Assemble press tools (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to assemble press tools
- 2b. Know how to assemble press tools (Continued)
Assembling vacuum forming toolsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Assemble vacuum forming tools
- 1b. Assemble vacuum forming tools (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to assemble vacuum forming tools
- 2b. Know how to assemble vacuum forming tools (Continued)
Carrying out CNC machine tool programmingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Carry out CNC machine tool programming
- 1b. Carry out CNC machine tool programming (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to carry out CNC machine tool programming
- 2b. Know how to carry out CNC machine tool programming (Continued)
Carrying out condition monitoring of mould, press tool or die equipmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Carry out condition monitoring or mould, press tool or die equipment
- 1b. Carry out condition monitoring or mould, press tool or die equipment (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to carry out condition monitoring or mould, press tool or die equipment
- 2b. Know how to carry out condition monitoring or mould, press tool or die equipment (Continued)
Carrying out fault diagnosis on mould, press tool or die equipmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Carry out fault diagnosis on mould, press tool or die equipment
- 1b. Carry out fault diagnosis on mould, press tool or die equipment (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to carry out fault diagnosis on mould, press tool or die equipment
- 2b. Know how to carry out fault diagnosis on mould, press tool or die equipment (Continued)
Carrying out planned maintenance on mould, press tool or die equipmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Carry out planned maintenance on mould, press tool or die equipment
- 1b. Carry out planned maintenance on mould, press tool or die equipment (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to carry out planned maintenance on mould, press tool or die equipment
- 2b. Know how to carry out planned maintenance on mould, press tool or die equipment (Continued)
Carrying out planned maintenance on power pressesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Carry out planned maintenance on power presses
- 1b. Carry out planned maintenance on power presses (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to carry out planned maintenance on power presses
- 2b. Know how to carry out planned maintenance on power presses (Continued)
Carrying out repairs or modifications to jigs or fixturesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Carry out repairs or modifications to jigs or fixtures
- 1b. Carry out repairs or modifications to jigs or fixtures (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to carry out repairs or modifications to jigs or fixtures
- 2b. Know how to carry out repairs or modifications to jigs or fixtures (Continued)
Checking that toolroom assemblies comply with specificationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Check that toolroom assemblies comply with specification
- 1b. Check that toolroom assemblies comply with specification (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to check that toolroom assemblies comply with specification
- 2b. Know how to check that toolroom assemblies comply with specification (Continued)
Complying with statutory regulations and organisational safety requirementsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Comply with statutory regulations and organisational safety requirements
- Comply with statutory regulations and organisational safety requirements
Fabricating structural components for jigs and fixturesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Fabricate structural components for jigs and fixtures
- 1b. Fabricate structural components for jigs and fixtures (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to fabricate structural components for jigs and fixtures
- 2b. Know how to fabricate structural components for jigs and fixtures (Continued)
Handing over and confirming the completion of mould, press tool or die equipmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Hand over and confirm the completion of mould, press tool or die equipment
- 1b. Hand over and confirm the completion of mould, press tool or die equipment (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to hand over and confirm the completion of mould, press tool or die equipment
- 2b. Know how to hand over and confirm the completion of mould, press tool or die equipment (Continued)
Handing over and confirming the completion of mould, press tool or die equipment maintenance activitiesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Hand over and confirm the completion of mould, press tool or die equipment maintenance activities
- 1b. Hand over and confirm the completion of mould, press tool or die equipment maintenance activities (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to hand over and confirm the completion of mould, press tool or die equipment maintenance activities
- 2b. Know how to hand over and confirm the completion of mould, press tool or die equipment maintenance activities (Continued)
Loading and proving CNC machine tool programsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Load and prove CNC machine tool programs
- 1b. Load and prove CNC machine tool programs (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to load and prove CNC machine tool programs
- 2b. Know how to load and prove CNC machine tool programs (Continued)
Machining components for jigs and fixturesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Machine components for jigs and fixtures
- 1b. Machine components for jigs and fixtures (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to machine components for jigs and fixtures
- 2b. Know how to machine components for jigs and fixtures (Continued)
Machining toolroom components using a range of machinesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Machine toolroom components using a range of machines
- 1b. Machine toolroom components using a range of machines (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to machine toolroom components using a range of machines
- 2b. Know how to machine toolroom components using a range of machines (Continued)
Machining toolroom components using centre lathesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Machine toolroom components using centre lathes
- 1b. Machine toolroom components using centre lathes (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to machine toolroom components using centre lathes
- 2b. Know how to machine toolroom components using centre lathes (Continued)
Machining toolroom components using electro-discharge machinesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Machine toolroom components using electro-discharge machines
- 1b. Machine toolroom components using electro-discharge machines (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to machine toolroom components using electro-discharge machines
- 2b. Know how to machine toolroom components using electro-discharge machines (Continued)
Machining toolroom components using grinding machinesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Machine toolroom components using grinding machines
- 1b. Machine toolroom components using grinding machines (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to machine toolroom components using grinding machines
- 2b. Know how to machine toolroom components using grinding machines (Continued)
Machining toolroom components using milling machinesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Machine toolroom components using milling machines
- 1b. Machine toolroom components using milling machines (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to machine toolroom components using milling machines
- 2b. Know how to machine toolroom components using milling machines (Continued)
Maintaining mould, press tool or die equipmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Maintain mould, press tool or die equipment
- 1b. Maintain mould, press tool or die equipment (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to maintain mould, press tool or die equipment
- 2b. Know how to maintain mould, press tool or die equipment (Continued)
Preparing and setting power pressesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Prepare and set power presses
- 1b. Prepare and set power presses (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to prepare and set power presses
- 2b. Know how to prepare and set power presses (Continued)
Producing jig and fixture components using hand fitting techniquesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Produce jig and fixture components using hand fitting techniques
- 1b. Produce jig and fixture components using hand fitting techniques (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to produce jig and fixture components using hand fitting techniques
- 2b. Know how to produce jig and fixture components using hand fitting techniques (Continued)
Producing mould, press tool or die components by manual machiningReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Produce mould, press tool or die components by manual machining
- 1b. Produce mould, press tool or die components by manual machining (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to produce mould, press tool or die components by manual machining
- 2b. Know how to produce mould, press tool or die components by manual machining (Continued)
Producing toolroom components using CNC electro-discharge machinesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Produce toolroom components using CNC electro-discharge machines
- 1b. Produce toolroom components using CNC electro-discharge machines (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to produce toolroom components using CNC electro-discharge machines
- 2b. Know how to produce toolroom components using CNC electro-discharge machines (Continued)
Producing toolroom components using CNC grinding machinesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Produce toolroom components using CNC grinding machines
- 1b. Produce toolroom components using CNC grinding machines (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to produce toolroom components using CNC grinding machines
- 2b. Know how to produce toolroom components using CNC grinding machines (Continued)
Producing toolroom components using CNC laser profiling machinesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Produce toolroom components using CNC laser profiling machines
- 1b. Produce toolroom components using CNC laser profiling machines (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to produce toolroom components using CNC laser profiling machines
- 2b. Know how to produce toolroom components using CNC laser profiling machines (Continued)
Producing toolroom components using CNC machining centresReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Produce toolroom components using CNC machining centres
- 1b. Produce toolroom components using CNC machining centres (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to produce toolroom components using CNC machining centres
- 2b. Know how to produce toolroom components using CNC machining centres (Continued)
Producing toolroom components using CNC milling machinesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Produce toolroom components using CNC milling machines
- 1b. Produce toolroom components using CNC milling machines (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to produce toolroom components using CNC milling machines
- 2b. Know how to produce toolroom components using CNC milling machines (Continued)
Producing toolroom components using CNC turning machinesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Produce toolroom components using CNC turning machines
- 1b. Produce toolroom components using CNC turning machines (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to produce toolroom components using CNC turning machines
- 2b. Know how to produce toolroom components using CNC turning machines (Continued)
Producing/finishing mould, press tool or die components using hand fitting techniquesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Produce/finish mould, press tool or die components using hand fitting techniques
- 1b. Produce/finish mould, press tool or die components using hand fitting techniques (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to produce/finish mould, press tool or die components using hand fitting techniques
- 2b. Know how to produce/finish mould, press tool or die components using hand fitting techniques (Continued)
Repairing or modifying mould, press tool or die componentsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Repair or modify mould, press tool or die components
- 1b. Repair or modify mould, press tool or die components (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to repair or modify mould, press tool or die components
- 2b. Know how to repair or modify mould, press tool or die components (Continued)
Setting a range of machines to produce toolroom componentsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Set a range of machines to produce toolroom components
- 1b. Set a range of machines to produce toolroom components (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to set a range of machines to produce toolroom components
- 2b. Know how to set a range of machines to produce toolroom components (Continued)
Setting centre lathes to produce toolroom componentsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Set centre lathes to produce toolroom components
- 1b. Set centre lathes to produce toolroom components (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to set centre lathes to produce toolroom components
- 2b. Know how to set centre lathes to produce toolroom components (Continued)
Setting electro-discharge machines to produce toolroom componentsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Set electro-discharge machines to produce toolroom components
- 1b. Set electro-discharge machines to produce toolroom components (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to set electro-discharge machines to produce toolroom components
- 2b. Know how to set electro-discharge machines to produce toolroom components (Continued)
Setting grinding machines to produce toolroom componentsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Set grinding machines to produce toolroom components
- 1b. Set grinding machines to produce toolroom components (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to set grinding machines to produce toolroom components
- 2b. Know how to set grinding machines to produce toolroom components (Continued)
Setting milling machines to produce toolroom componentsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Set milling machines to produce toolroom components
- 1b. Set milling machines to produce toolroom components (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to set milling machines to produce toolroom components
- 2b. Know how to set milling machines to produce toolroom components (Continued)
Trying out and proving diesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Try out and prove dies
- 1b. Try out and prove dies (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to try out and prove dies
- 2b. Know how to try out and prove dies (Continued)
Trying out and proving injection mouldsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Try out and prove injection moulds
- 1b. Try out and prove injection moulds (Continued)
- 2a. Know how to try out and prove injection moulds
- 2b. Know how to try out and prove injection moulds (Continued)
Using and interpreting engineering data and documentationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Use and interpret engineering data and documentation
- Use and interpret engineering data and documentation
Working efficiently and effectively in engineeringReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Work efficiently and effectively in engineering
- Work efficiently and effectively in engineering
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
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
Meet all twelve tutorsWhere this connects
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.
- Assembling blow mould tools
- Assembling injection mould tools
- Assembling jig and fixture structures using a manual welding process
- Assembling jigs and fixtures using mechanical methods
- Assembling press tools
- Carrying out condition monitoring of mould, press tool or die equipment
- Carrying out fault diagnosis on mould, press tool or die equipment
- Carrying out planned maintenance on mould, press tool or die equipment
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 own work
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Pearson Edexcel Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Engineering Toolmaking (QCF)
46 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- Assembling blow mould tools
- Assembling dies
- Assembling injection mould tools
- Assembling jig and fixture structures using a manual welding process
- Assembling jigs and fixtures using mechanical methods
- Assembling press tools
and 40 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.