Pearson Education Ltd · RQF Level 3
Pearson Edexcel Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Engineering Leadership (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits101
- Guided learning120 hours
- Units in this qualification17
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.
Analysing the risks arising from engineering activitiesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse the risks arising from engineering activities
- Analyse the risks arising from engineering activities
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
Controlling the scheduling of resources for engineering activitiesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Control the scheduling of resources for engineering activities
- Control the scheduling of resources for engineering activities
Create Engineering Drawings using Computer-Aided TechniquesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Create Engineering Drawings using Computer-Aided Techniques
- Create Engineering Drawings using Computer-Aided Techniques (continued)
- Create engineering drawings simple computer-aided techniques
- Create engineering drawings simple computer-aided techniques (continued)
Implementing Engineering ActivitiesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Implement engineering activities
- 1b. Implement engineering activities (continued)
- 2a. Know how to implement engineering activities
- 2b. Know how to implement engineering activities (continued)
Implementing Quality Control Systems and Procedures in an Engineering EnvironmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Implement quality control systems and procedures in an engineering environment
- 1b. Implement quality control systems and procedures in an engineering environment (continued)
- 2a. Know how to implement quality control systems and procedures in an engineering environment
- 2b. Know how to implement quality control systems and procedures in an engineering environment (continued)
Make effective decisionsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify circumstances that require a decision to be made.
- Collect information to inform decision-making.
- Analyse information to inform decision-making.
- Make a decision.
Manage conflict in a teamReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Support team members’ understanding of their role and position within a team.
- Take measures to minimise conflict within a team.
- Understand how to encourage team members to resolve their own conflicts.
- Understand legal and organisational requirements concerning conflict.
Manage customer service in own area of responsibilityReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Establish and communicate measurable customer service standards for own area of responsibility.
- Support staff in meeting customer service standards.
- Monitor and evaluate customer service performance, systems and processes.
Manage knowledge in own area of responsibilityReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand existing knowledge management in own area of responsibility.
- Develop knowledge.
- Share knowledge.
- Monitor and evaluate knowledge management in own area of responsibility.
Manage or support equality of opportunity, diversity and inclusion in own area of responsibilityReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand own responsibilities under equality legislation, relevant codes of practice and own organisational policies.
- Communicate an organisation’s written equality, diversity and inclusion policy and procedures in own area of responsibility.
- Monitor equality, diversity and inclusion within own area of responsibility.
Monitoring Engineering ActivitiesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Monitor engineering activities
- 1b. Monitor engineering activities (continued)
- 2a. Know how to monitor engineering activities
- 2b. Know how to monitor engineering activities (continued)
Obtaining Resources for Engineering ActivitiesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Obtain resources for engineering activities
- 1b. Obtain resources for engineering activities (continued)
- 2a. Know how to obtain resources for engineering activities
- 2b. Know how to obtain resources for engineering activities (continued)
Procure suppliesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify requirements for supplies.
- Evaluate suppliers that meet identified requirements.
- Select suppliers and obtain supplies.
- Monitor supplier performance.
Resolving Engineering ProblemsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Resolve engineering problems
- Resolve engineering problems (continued)
- Resolve engineering problems
- Resolve engineering problems (continued)
Set objectives and provide support for team membersReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Communicate a team’s purpose and objectives to the team members.
- Develop a plan with team members showing how team objectives will be met.
- Support team members identifying opportunities and providing support.
- Monitor and evaluate progress and recognise individual and team achievement.
Support team members in identifying, developing and implementing new ideasReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Develop team ideas and develop the creativity of team members
- Assess the viability of team members’ ideas.
- Support team members to implement ideas.
- Implement team ideas.
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
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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
The Evidence Evaluator
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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.
- 04_Controlling the scheduling of resources for engineering activities
- 05_Obtaining resources for engineering activities
- 09_Ensure the effective solution of engineering problems
- Analyse the risks arising from engineering activities
- Analysing the risks arising from engineering activities
- Control the scheduling of resources for engineering activities
- Implement Quality Control Systems and Procedures in an Engineering Environment
- Implement engineering activities
Where this can lead
Knowledge Management Engineer
Your journey here isn't just about a job; it's about building a career in a field that's becoming increasingly critical for technical organisations. We're excited to see where you take it.
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 Pearson Edexcel Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Engineering Leadership (QCF)
17 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- Analysing the risks arising from engineering activities
- Complying with statutory regulations and organisational safety requirements
- Controlling the scheduling of resources for engineering activities
- Create Engineering Drawings using Computer-Aided Techniques
- Implementing Engineering Activities
- Implementing Quality Control Systems and Procedures in an Engineering Environment
and 11 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.