City and Guilds of London Institute · RQF Level 3
City & Guilds Level 3 Certificate for Proficiency in Food Manufacturing Excellence (QCF)
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- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits27
- Units in this qualification110
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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.
Analyse and select areas for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for analysis
- Undertake analysis to identity improvement opportunities
- Select areas for achieving excellence improvement
Analyse current practice for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for analysis
- Undertake analysis to identity improvement opportunities
- Report improvement opportunities
Analyse improvement outcomes for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Develop a programme of analysis
- Analyse the performance of improvement activities
- Report on the analysis of the improvement activities
Apply Failure Modes and Effects Analysis in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for FMEA analysis
- Undertake FMEA analysis to identify improvement opportunities
- Report on improvement opportunities
Assess teams and individuals in the achievement of excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Develop procedures to assess the competence of learner
- Judge evidence against criteria to make assessment decisions
- Provide feedback and support to learner on assessment decisions
Carry out a Value Stream Mapping _VSM_ programme in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Agree objectives for the value stream mapping programme
- Initiate a value stream mapping programme
- Implement a value stream mapping programme
Carry out quality audits in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for quality audits
- Audit compliance against quality systems
- Complete post quality audit actions
Contribute to continuous improvement of food safety in operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Contribute to improving food safety
- Comply with food safety standards and procedures
Contribute to the development of an achieving excellence culture in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Take action and communicate cultural behaviours in achieving excellence
- Contribute to value systems and monitor cultural values in achieving excellence
Contribute to the development of an achieving excellence strategy in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Contribute to identifying improvement opportunities
- Contribute to strategy development
- Support the consultation of the strategy
Control energy efficiency in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain measures that support sustainable energy usage
- Promote measures that support sustainable energy usage
- Promote the development of sustainable energy usage
Control transport efficiency in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain measures that support sustainable transport usage
- Promote measures that support sustainable transport usage
- Promote the development of sustainable transport
Control waste minimisation in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain measures that support waste minimisation
- Promote measures that support waste minimisation
- Promote the development of sustainability through waste minimisation
Control water usage in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain measures that support sustainable water usage
- Promote measures that support sustainable water usage
- Promote the development of sustainable water usage
Develop working relationships with colleagues in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Establish working relationships with food operations colleagues
- Display professional and respectful behaviour when working with food operations colleagues
- Communicate effectively with food operations colleagues
- Identify colleague’s food operations-related difficulties and seek solutions
Diagnose problems in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Identify problems
- Diagnose problems
- Report problems
Evaluate improvement activities for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Develop a programme of evaluation
- Evaluate the performance of improvement activities
- Report on the outcomes of the improvement activities
Identify learning and skills needs for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Review the current training needs
- Identify and develop training needs key to achieving excellence
Implement a problem solving methodology for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Develop a problem solving methodology to support improvement
- Maintain problem solving in an improvement programme
- Obtain and provide feedback
Implement a set-up reduction programme for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Agree objectives for the set-up reduction programme
- Agree and initiate an improvement plan
- Implement a set-up reduction programme
Implement improvement programmes for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Agree objectives for an improvement programme
- Agree and initiate an improvement plan
- Implement an improvement programme
Implement mistake/error proofing _Poka Yoke_ for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Agree objectives for the mistake/error proofing (Poka Yoke) programme
- Agree and initiate an improvement plan
- Implement a mistake/error proofing programme
Implement visual management systems in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Agree objectives for visual management systems
- Initiate visual management systems
- Implement visual management systems
Manage compliance to support achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Manage compliance with regulations in the areas of own responsibility
- Implement improvement to workplace organisation
- Obtain and provide feedback on compliance
Manage organisational change for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for managing organisational change
- Manage organisational change
- Communicate plans for organisational change
- Monitor plans for organisational change
Manage workplace organisation for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and co-ordinate workplace organisation in the areas of own responsibility
- Implement improvement to workplace organisation
- Obtain and provide feedback on workplace organisation
Measure and collect data for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan to measure and record improvements
- Measure and record improvements
- Collect and report improvement data
Monitor and control throughput to achieve targets in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Monitor and control throughput to achieve targets
- Take action to resolve problems affecting volume of throughput
Monitor change and improvement for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for monitoring change and improvement
- Monitor change and improvement
- Obtain and provide feedback on monitoring change and improvement
Organise and run meetings in food manufactureReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan to lead meetings
- Lead meetings
- Contribute to meetings
Plan and agree targets for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Scope the area where targets need to be developed
- Plan for target setting
- Agree achieving excellence targets
- Obtain and provide feedback on own contribution to target setting and agreement
Plan organisational change for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for planned organisational change
- Develop plans for organisational change
- Communicate plans for organisational change
- Monitor plans for organisational change
Principles of Design of Experiments _DOE_ in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose, importance and completion of DOE
- Understand the techniques, data and terms used in the DOE
- Understand the use of graphical displays and the design of arrays
Principles of Evolutionary Operations _EVOP_ in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the benefits and use of EVOP
- Understand the application of EVOP
- Understand the utilisation of EVOP
Principles of Failure Modes and Effects Analysis _FMEA_ in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the features and benefits the FMEA system
- Understand FMEA terminology and use
Principles of Measurement System Analysis _MSA_ in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand a processing operation considered for analysis
- Understand the selection and use of measurement systems
- Understand the technical application of measurement system analysis
Principles of Quality Function Deployment _QFD_ in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the advantages of QFD and the quality lever model
- Understand how to plan QFD and how it relates to improvement techniques
- Understand the phases of QFD, customer’s requirements and matrices
Principles of Single Minute Exchange of Dies _SMED_ in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the SMED approach, objective and its contribution to Total Productive Maintenance
- Understand a changeover operation and techniques considered for SMED analysis
- Understand how to analyse and improve changeovers using SMED
- Understand the potential benefits and added value of SMED
Principles of Six Sigma methodology in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the use and benefits of six sigma process methodology
- Understand six sigma methodology
- Understand roles and responsibilities in six sigma methodology
Principles of Six Sigma metrics in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the use and benefits of six sigma metrics
- Understand the utilisation of six sigma metrics
- Understand data in six sigma metrics
Principles of Six Sigma process mapping in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the use and benefits six sigma process mapping
- Understand variables in six sigma process mapping
- Understand role and responsibilities and value added activity in six sigma process mapping
Principles of Statistical Process Control procedures _SPC_ in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and use of statistical process control
- Understand performance and variation in statistical process control
- Understand the use of data and control charts in statistical process control
- Understand the normal statistical curve, statistical terms and process capability
Principles of Taguchi Linear graphs in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand a processing operation considered for analysis
- Understand Taguchi Linear terminology, graphs and sample sizes
- Understand the application of Taguchi Linear graphs
Principles of Value Stream Mapping _VSM_ in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the processing activity and requirements for VSM
- Understand VSM evaluation, targets and communication
- Understand the techniques and procedures supporting VSM
Principles of a characteristic selection matrix in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the requirements for a characteristic selection matrix
- Understand the application of a characteristic selection matrix
- Understand the utilisation of a characteristic selection matrix
Principles of a set-up reduction programme in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the implementation and resources for a set-up reduction programme
- Understand the requirements and evaluation of a set-up reduction programme
- Understand the communication and utilisation of a set-up reduction programme
Principles of an achieving excellence strategy in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of improvement to an excellence strategy
- Understand the main components of an excellence strategy
- Understand how a strategy should address key improvement issues within the business
Principles of analysing and selecting areas for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand selection information and the analysis of graphical data
- Understand the key features of the analysis
Principles of basic statistical analysis in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand a processing operation and basic statistical techniques
- Understand statistical terminology, curves and diagrams
- Understand statistical calculation
Principles of capability studies in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the requirements and need for capability studies
- Understand the application of capability studies
- Understand the utilisation of capability studies
Principles of central limit theorem and confidence intervals in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the function of central limit theorem and confidence intervals
- Understand the application of central limit theorem and confidence intervals
- Understand the utilisation of central limit theorem and confidence intervals
Principles of change project management in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
You'll gain an understanding of the stages of change management projects in food operations. The unit includes the purpose of project initiation documents, stakeholder identification, and team roles and responsibilities.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the planning processes involved in a change management project.
- Understand how to form and develop a project team for a change management project.
- Understand how information is managed and problems are solved within a change management project.
Principles of continuous improvement techniques _Kaizen_ in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the features, importance of Kaizen activity
- Understand the criteria and requirements for Kaizen and problem solving
- Understand how to interact with Kaizen activity
Principles of flexible production and manpower systems in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the definition and benefits of the flexible production and manpower systems
- Understand terminology and application of system components
- Understand how to maximise effectiveness of systems and asset care
- Understand system techniques and workplace layout
Principles of flow process analysis in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand a processing operation considered for flow process analysis
- Understand flow process analysis mapping and value added features of process operations
- Understand how to analyse and set action plans for improvement opportunities
Principles of hypothesis testing in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the function and benefits of hypothesis testing
- Understand samples and tests in hypothesis testing
- Understand terminology in hypothesis testing
Principles of improvement in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand improvement, its role and the opportunities for improvement
- Understand how waste control can impact on improvement
- Understand the impact of visual controls, the Deming Cycle and procedures
Principles of lead time analysis in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand a processing operation and information considered for analysis
- Understand the creation of lead time profiles and the link with problem solving
Principles of mistake/error proofing _Poka Yoke_ in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the benefits and requirements for mistake/error proofing activity
- Understand the application of mistake/error proofing activity
- Understand the utilisation of mistake/error proofing activity
Principles of multi-variance charts in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the requirements and benefits of multi-variance charting
- Understand the application of multi-variance charting
- Understand the utilisation of multi-variance charting
Principles of response surface methodology in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the use and working of response surface methodology
- Understand data and statistical validity in response surface methodology
- Understand response surface methodology terms and cost benefits
Principles of sustainability in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of sustainability
- Understand factors affecting sustainability targets
- Understand factors affecting support for sustainability targets
- Understand the factors influencing the achievement of sustainability
Principles of visual management systems in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the processing activity and requirements for visual management systems
- Understand the creation of the visual factory, and the business performance measures for visual management systems
- Understand measurement techniques and the importance of monitoring arrangements for visual management systems
Provide coaching and mentoring for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Develop a coaching and mentoring process
- Set up the mentoring and coaching process
- Provide coaching and mentoring
Provide leadership and direction for own area of responsibilityReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Lead in own area of responsibility.
- Provide direction and set objectives in own area of responsibility.
- Communicate the direction for own area of responsibility and collect feedback to inform improvement.
- Assess own leadership performance.
Provide organisational support for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan to support and monitor an improvement team
- Support an improvement team
Provide training for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare and design training to support achieving excellence
- Deliver training to support achieving excellence
- Obtain and provide feedback on training
Resolve problems in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Establish what the problems are
- Implement solutions
- Report on further action to be taken
Review and evaluate organisational change for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for review and evaluation of organisational change
- Review and evaluate organisational change
- Report the outcomes of review and evaluation
Review improvement activities for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Develop a programme of review
- Review the performance of improvement activities
- Report on the review outcomes of the improvement activities
Sustain improvement for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Systematically maintain an improvement programme
- Communicate improvements
- Obtain and provide feedback on sustaining improvement
The Principles of HACCP for Food ManufacturingReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of HACCP based food safety management procedures
- Understand the preliminary processes for HACCP based procedures
- Understand how to develop HACCP based food safety management procedures
- Understand how to implement HACCP based food safety management procedures
- Understand how to evaluate HACCP based procedures
Understand how implement a problem solving methodology for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Develop a problem solving methodology to support improvement
- Maintain problem solving in an improvement programme
- Obtain and provide feedback
Understand how to analyse and select areas for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for analysis
- Undertake analysis to identify improvement opportunities
- Present the results of analysis and selection of improvement opportunities
Understand how to analyse current practice for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for analysis
- Undertake analysis to identify improvement opportunities.
Understand how to analyse improvement outcomes for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Develop a programme of analysis
- Analyse the performance of improvement activities
- Report on the analysis of improvement activities
Understand how to apply visual management systems in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to apply visual management systems
- Implement visual management systems
- Monitor visual management systems
Understand how to assess teams and individuals in the achievement of excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Develop procedures to assess the competence of learners
- Judge evidence against criteria to make assessment decisions
- Provide feedback and support to learners on assessment decisions
Understand how to carry out Failure Modes and Effects Analysis _FMEA_ in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for FMEA
- Undertake FMEA to identify improvement opportunities
Understand how to carry out Value Stream Mapping _VSM_ in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Initiate a value stream mapping programme
- Implement a value stream mapping programme
- Communicate about value stream mapping and improvement opportunities
Understand how to carry out mistake/error proofing _Poka Yoke_ for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Agree objectives for a mistake/error proofing (Poka Yoke) programme
- Implement a mistake/error proofing (Poka Yoke) programme
Understand how to carry out quality audits in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Know about quality auditing best practice
- Communicate audit results and recommendations
- Interpret and action an auditor’s report
Understand how to contribute to continuous improvement of food safety in operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Know about food safety management procedures
- Know the checks and reporting procedures to control food safety
- Contribute to food safety management
Understand how to contribute to the development of an achieving excellence culture in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Know how organisational and cultural values affect achieving excellence
- Contribute to value systems and monitor cultural values in achieving excellence
- Review and communicate about value systems
Understand how to contribute to the development of an achieving excellence strategy in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Contribute to identifying improvement opportunities
- Contribute to strategy development
- Communicate the consultation of the strategy
Understand how to control transport efficiency in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Know what the requirements are for controlling transport efficiency in food operations
- Control transport efficient within the organisation
- Promote transport efficiency within the organisation
- Maintain transport efficiency within the organisation
Understand how to control waste minimisation in a food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Know what the requirements are for minimising waste in a food environment
- Minimise waste produced by the organisation
- Promote waste minimisation by the organisation
- Maintain waste minimisation within the organisation
Understand how to control water usage in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Know what the requirements are for controlling water usage in food operations
- Control the use of water within the organisation
- Promote the efficient use of water within the organisation
- Maintain efficient water usage measures within the organisation
Understand how to develop working relationships with colleagues in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to establish working relationships with food operations colleagues
- Understand professional behaviour and its importance when working with food operations colleagues
- Understand how to communicate effectively with food operations colleagues
- Identify colleague’s food operations-related difficulties and seek solutions
Understand how to diagnose problems in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Identify problems
- Diagnose problems
- Communicate problems
Understand how to evaluate improvement activities for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Develop a programme of evaluation
- Evaluate the performance of improvement activities
- Report on the outcomes of improvement activities
Understand how to identify learning and skills needs for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Review the current training needs
- Identify and develop training needs that are key to achieving excellence
Understand how to implement a set-up reduction programme for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Agree objectives for a set-up reduction programme
- Implement a set-up reduction programme
- Communicate about a set-up reduction programme
Understand how to implement improvement programmes for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to implement an improvement programme
- Implement an improvement programme
- Communicate about an improvement programme
Understand how to manage compliance to support achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Manage compliance in own areas of responsibility
- Implement improvements to workplace organisation
- Obtain and provide feedback on compliance
Understand how to manage organisational change for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for managing organisational change
- Manage organisational change
- Review and communicate organisational change
Understand how to manage workplace organisation for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and co-ordinate workplace organisation in areas of own responsibility
- Implement improvement to workplace organisation
- Obtain and provide feedback on workplace organisation
Understand how to measure and collect data for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan to measure and record data about improvements
- Measure and record data about improvements
- Collect and report on improvement data
Understand how to monitor and control throughput to achieve targets in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the best advice and guidance surrounding monitoring quality
- Know about monitoring procedures for quality of work
- Know about monitoring procedures for throughput
- Record quality of work issues
- Know about solving problems affecting throughput
Understand how to monitor change and improvement for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for monitoring change and improvement
- Monitor change and improvement
- Obtain and provide feedback on monitoring change and improvement
Understand how to organise and run meetings in food manufactureReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan and organise meetings in food manufacture
- Organise meetings in food manufacture
- Run meetings in food manufacture
- Control meetings in food manufacture
Understand how to plan and agree targets for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Scope the area where targets need to be developed
- Plan for target setting
- Agree achieving excellence targets
- Obtain and provide feedback on own contribution to target setting and agreement
Understand how to plan organisational change for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for planned organisational change
- Develop plans for organisational change
- Communicate plans for organisational change
Understand how to provide coaching and mentoring for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Develop a coaching and mentoring process
- Set up a coaching and mentoring process
- Provide coaching and mentoring
Understand how to provide organisational support for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan to support and monitor an improvement team
- Support an improvement team
- Monitor team performance and provide feedback
Understand how to provide training for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare and design training to support achieving excellence
- Deliver training to support achieving excellence
Understand how to resolve problems in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Establish what the problems are
- Implement solutions
- Report on further action to be taken
Understand how to review and evaluate organisational change for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for review and evaluation of organisational change
- Review and evaluate organisational change
- Report on the outcomes of review and evaluation and receive feedback
Understand how to review improvement activities for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Develop a programme of review
- Review the performance of improvement activities
- Report on the performance of improvement activities
Understand how to sustain improvement for achieving excellence in food operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the underlying vision and strategy for improvements
- Systematically sustain an improvement programme
- Communicate about sustaining improvements
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Analyse and select areas for achieving excellence in food operationsAnalyse current practice for achieving excellence in food operationsAnalyse improvement outcomes for achieving excellence in food operationsApply Failure Modes and Effects Analysis in food operationsAssess teams and individuals in the achievement of excellence in food operationsCarry out a Value Stream Mapping _VSM_ programme in food operationsCarry out quality audits in food operationsContribute to continuous improvement of food safety in operations
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City & Guilds Level 3 Certificate for Proficiency in Food Manufacturing Excellence (QCF)
- Analyse and select areas for improvement in food and drink operations
- Analyse current improvement practice in food and drink operations
- Apply Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) in Food and Drink Operations
- Apply Taguchi linear graphs to support improvement in food and drink operations
- Apply the lead time analysis improvement technique in food and drink operations
- Carry out a cost analysis for new product development in a food and drink business
- Carry out quality audits
- Carry out value stream mapping (VSM) in food and drink operations
Where this can lead
Senior Food Safety Compliance Officer
Your journey in food safety is a vital one, and we're committed to supporting your growth. Whether you aspire to lead teams, become a top-tier technical expert, or even move into broader industry influence, this Senior Food Safety Compliance Officer role is a fantastic stepping stone. It's challenging, yes, but incredibly rewarding, and the skills you'll gain here are truly invaluable.
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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.
Analyse and select areas for improvement in food and drink operationsAnalyse current improvement practice in food and drink operationsApply Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) in Food and Drink OperationsApply Taguchi linear graphs to support improvement in food and drink operationsApply the lead time analysis improvement technique in food and drink operationsCarry out a cost analysis for new product development in a food and drink businessCarry out quality auditsCarry out value stream mapping (VSM) in food and drink operationsContribute to Continuous Improvement of Food Safety in Food and Drink OperationsContribute to continuous improvement of food safety in food and drink operationsContribute to the development of an improvement culture in food and drink operationsContribute to the development of an improvement strategy in food and drink operationsContribute to the development of an organisational culture in a food and drink businessControl Transport Efficiency in a Food EnvironmentControl and monitor transport efficiency in a food and drink environmentControl and monitor waste minimisation in a food and drink environmentControl waste minimisation in a food environmentDevelop organisational plans in a food and drink business+25 more
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.
One-to-one, on your real workNo lectures, no past-papers. Every unit is practised on the actual tasks your job throws at you, a tutor beside you, not a video in front of you.
Taught to the top, not the testMost courses stop at remembering. Your companion keeps climbing: analysing, judging, creating. That’s the part a machine can’t do for you.
Credits you keep, a map that continuesEvery unit is regulated and yours for good. The day you finish, Zavmo already knows the next role your new credits open.
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How the thinking builds
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for City & Guilds Level 3 Certificate for Proficiency in Food Manufacturing Excellence (QCF)
110 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by City and Guilds of London Institute.
- Analyse and select areas for achieving excellence in food operations
- Analyse current practice for achieving excellence in food operations
- Analyse improvement outcomes for achieving excellence in food operations
- Apply Failure Modes and Effects Analysis in food operations
- Assess teams and individuals in the achievement of excellence in food operations
- Carry out a Value Stream Mapping _VSM_ programme in food operations
and 104 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
Why this matters: AI can already remember and understand for you. What it can’t do is
take your real problem and judge the right call. So the only learning worth paying
for is the learning that takes you to the top. That’s exactly what a tutor doing it with
you, on your real work, is for.
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.