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  3. The centre assesses, and City & Guilds Limited awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from City & Guilds Limited.

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01What it is

City & Guilds offers a wide range of qualifications in Transport Maintenance, including Introductory, Higher Level and apprenticeship options. Learn more.

These are the units City & Guilds Limited 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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work.

Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with City & Guilds Limited. It does the teaching and the mapping. City & Guilds Limited sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.

02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Adjust Signalling Components and Equipment to Meet Operational Requirements Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll gain knowledge and skills to adjust signalling components and equipment to meet operational requirements. The unit includes identifying requirements, describing adjustment procedures, and performing adjustments correctly.

What you'll be able to do

  • Adjust signalling components to meet operational requirements.
  • Adjust signalling equipment to meet operational requirements.
  • Adjust signalling components to meet operational requirements.
  • Adjust signalling equipment to meet operational requirements.
Allocate and Monitor Resources for Signal Engineering Activities Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
It teaches you to allocate and monitor resources effectively for signal engineering activities. You'll consider project priorities, team skills, deadlines, and budgets while monitoring resource utilisation.

What you'll be able to do

  • Allocate resources effectively for signal engineering activities.
  • Monitor resources to ensure efficient use in signal engineering activities.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of how to allocate resources for signal engineering activities.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of how to monitor resources for signal engineering activities.
Carry Out Removal of Components from Signalling Assets Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll be able to safely remove components from signalling assets by following approved procedures and safety regulations. The unit includes understanding relevant safety measures and accurately documenting removal activities.

What you'll be able to do

  • Carry out the removal of components from signalling assets in accordance with approved procedures and safety regulations.
  • Carry out the removal of components from signalling assets, including understanding the relevant safety procedures, tools, and techniques.
Carry Out Replacement of Components from Signalling Assets Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
This unit covers the safe and effective replacement of components in signalling assets. You'll prepare assets, remove defective components, install replacements, and test functionality while adhering to safety procedures.

What you'll be able to do

  • Carry out the replacement of components from signalling assets in accordance with approved procedures and safety regulations.
  • Carry out the replacement of components from signalling assets, including understanding the relevant safety procedures, tools, and techniques.
Contribute to Technical Leadership of Signal Engineering Activities Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
It teaches you to contribute to the technical leadership of signal engineering activities by supporting technical decisions and providing advice and guidance to colleagues involved in these activities.

What you'll be able to do

  • Contribute to the technical leadership of signal engineering activities.
  • Contribute to the technical leadership of signal engineering activities.
Determine Requirements for the Safe Access to Work Locations for Signal Engineering Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll determine safe access requirements for signal engineering work locations by identifying relevant regulations and procedures. The unit includes selecting appropriate safety measures and documenting access requirements.

What you'll be able to do

  • Determine the requirements for safe access to work locations for signal engineering activities, in accordance with relevant regulations and procedures
  • Describe the procedures for determining the requirements for safe access to work locations for signal engineering
  • Explain the importance of adhering to safety regulations when accessing work locations for signal engineering
Diagnose Faults in Signalling Assets Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
It teaches you to diagnose faults in signalling assets by selecting and using appropriate diagnostic tools and techniques. You'll interpret diagnostic data and record findings accurately to identify fault causes.

What you'll be able to do

  • Diagnose faults in signalling assets using appropriate diagnostic techniques
  • Describe the methods used to diagnose faults in signalling assets
  • Explain the importance of accurate fault diagnosis in signalling systems
Employment Rights and Responsibilities in the Passenger Transport Sector Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
This unit provides learners with an understanding of employment rights and responsibilities for both employees and employers in the passenger transport sector. It covers legal requirements relating to equality, diversity, and organisational impacts.

What you'll be able to do

  • Know employment rights and responsibilities of the employee
  • Know employment rights and responsibilities of the employer
  • Understand how employment rights and responsibilities affect organisations
Establish information for signal engineering maintenance or fault finding Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
This unit covers establishing and accurately recording information required for signal engineering maintenance and fault finding. You'll identify information types and methods for obtaining data essential to maintenance activities.

What you'll be able to do

  • Establish the information required for signal engineering maintenance activities.
  • Establish the information required for signal engineering fault finding activities.
  • Establish information for signal engineering maintenance.
  • Establish information for signal engineering fault finding.
Maintenance of Signalling Assets using complex processes Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll learn to maintain signalling assets using complex processes, demonstrating correct tool use and adherence to safety regulations. The unit also covers accurate recording of maintenance activities.

What you'll be able to do

  • Carry out maintenance of signalling assets using complex processes, adhering to relevant safety regulations
  • Describe the procedures for carrying out maintenance of signalling assets using complex processes
  • Explain the importance of following safety regulations when maintaining signalling assets
Organise Local Signal Engineering Activities Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
This unit equips learners to organise local signal engineering activities by developing and implementing plans that allocate resources and prioritise tasks. You'll monitor progress and adjust plans as necessary.

What you'll be able to do

  • Organise local signal engineering activities, ensuring resources are allocated effectively and tasks are prioritised appropriately.
  • Organise local signal engineering activities, including understanding planning processes, communication protocols, and risk assessment procedures.
Plan Signal Maintenance Testing Activities Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll develop the skills to plan signal maintenance testing activities by identifying relevant procedures and steps. They will create plans that meet specified requirements and understand the importance of effective planning.

What you'll be able to do

  • Plan signal maintenance testing activities in accordance with relevant procedures.
  • Plan signal maintenance testing activities effectively.
  • Understand the processes involved in planning signal maintenance testing activities.
Plan for further professional development in the rail industry Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll be able to plan their further professional development within the rail industry by identifying relevant training opportunities, evaluating their suitability, and developing a comprehensive development plan.

What you'll be able to do

  • Plan for further professional development in the rail industry, identifying relevant training and development opportunities
  • Plan for further professional development, including identifying personal development needs, setting goals, and accessing relevant resources and support
Reinstate the Work Area after Signal Engineering Activities Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll develop the knowledge and skills to reinstate work areas after signal engineering activities. This includes ensuring safety and tidiness, accounting for equipment, and disposing of waste according to regulations.

What you'll be able to do

  • Reinstate the work area after signal engineering activities, ensuring it is left in a safe and tidy condition, and that all equipment is accounted for.
  • Reinstate the work area after signal engineering activities, including understanding environmental regulations, waste disposal procedures, and safety protocols.
Transfer Responsibility of Signalling Assets Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll be able to transfer responsibility of signalling assets by completing accurate documentation, communicating effectively with relevant personnel, and following handover procedures to ensure a smooth transition.

What you'll be able to do

  • Transfer responsibility of signalling assets to the appropriate personnel, ensuring all relevant documentation is completed and handover procedures are followed.
  • Transfer responsibility of signalling assets, including understanding communication protocols, documentation requirements, and authorisation procedures.
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03The standards

The national standards these units are built against

What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.

  • Adjust signalling components and equipment to meet operational requirements

    Standard

  • Allocate and monitor resources for engineering activities in the Tram and Tramway environment

    Standard

  • Allocate and monitor resources for signal engineering activities

    Standard

  • Allocate and monitor resources for telecoms engineering activities

    Standard

  • Assist in the removal of signalling equipment

    Standard

  • Assume and handover responsibility for area of control in the rail industry

    Standard

  • Carry out removal of components from signalling equipment

    Standard

  • Carry out replacement of components from signalling equipment

    Standard

  • Contribute to technical leadership of signal engineering activities

    Standard

  • Determine requirements for the safe access to work locations for signal engineering

    Standard

  • Diagnose and repair faults on Tram vehicle assets, components, equipment and systems

    Standard

  • Diagnose faults in Tramway components, equipment and assets

    Standard

  • Diagnose faults in signalling equipment

    Standard

  • Handover Responsibility of Tram Vehicle Assets

    Standard

  • Organise local signal engineering activities

    Standard

  • Plan for further professional development in the rail industry

    Standard

  • Plan signal maintenance testing activities

    Standard

  • Reinstate the work area after signal engineering activities

    Standard

Showing 18 of 20 standards these units map to.

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04The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by City & Guilds Limited rather than by Zavmo. 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 have covered and what is next.

What you would be collecting

Adjust Signalling Components and Equipment to Meet Operational RequirementsAllocate and Monitor Resources for Signal Engineering ActivitiesCarry Out Removal of Components from Signalling AssetsCarry Out Replacement of Components from Signalling AssetsContribute to Technical Leadership of Signal Engineering ActivitiesDetermine Requirements for the Safe Access to Work Locations for Signal EngineeringDiagnose Faults in Signalling AssetsEmployment Rights and Responsibilities in the Passenger Transport Sector

Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.

How you’d practise it

You don’t watch this. You do it.

You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.

The Navigator The Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration
The Navigator Your plan for “Plan Signal Maintenance Testing Activities” assumes the same two people are free in March. What have you seen that makes you slightly uneasy about that?
You One of them has been pulled onto the migration twice already. Probably fine.
The Navigator That is the thread worth pulling. Let us build the version where it happens a third time and find the move that works either way.
The same lesson on the real thing: the conversation in the middle, the thinking ladder on the left, and the criteria each answer is evidencing on the right.
  • Bring your own plan Create

    For “Plan Signal Maintenance Testing Activities” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.

  • Map a live decision Analyse

    “Allocate and Monitor Resources for Signal Engineering Activities” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.

  • Lead it Apply

    “Contribute to Technical Leadership of Signal Engineering Activities” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.

What you leave holding

The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them

Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.

See Your Progress Grow Illustration
City & Guilds Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Rail Engineering Signalling Maintainer and Fault Finder
  • Adjust signalling components and equipment to meet operational requirements
  • Allocate and monitor resources for engineering activities in the Tram and Tramway environment
  • Allocate and monitor resources for signal engineering activities
  • Allocate and monitor resources for telecoms engineering activities
  • Assist in the removal of signalling equipment
  • Assume and handover responsibility for area of control in the rail industry
  • Carry out removal of components from signalling equipment
  • Carry out replacement of components from signalling equipment
This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

How you would learn this

One to one, on the work you already do

A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.

A lesson from Adjust Signalling Components and Equipment to Meet Operational Requirements, one of this qualification's own units.

Adjust Signalling Components and Equipment to Meet Operational Requirements Level 3

Applied to your own work

Learners will acquire knowledge and skills to adjust signalling components and equipment to meet operational requirements. The unit includes identifying requirements, describing adjustment procedures, and performing adjustments correctly.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 6 Create
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Your Plan Illustration

Built for City & Guilds Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Rail Engineering Signalling Maintainer and Fault Finder

15 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by City & Guilds Limited.

  1. Adjust Signalling Components and Equipment to Meet Operational Requirements
  2. Allocate and Monitor Resources for Signal Engineering Activities
  3. Carry Out Removal of Components from Signalling Assets
  4. Carry Out Replacement of Components from Signalling Assets
  5. Contribute to Technical Leadership of Signal Engineering Activities
  6. Determine Requirements for the Safe Access to Work Locations for Signal Engineering

and 9 more in the full unit list below.

These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

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