City and Guilds of London Institute · RQF Level 3
City & Guilds Level 3 NVQ Extended Diploma in Engineering Maintenance
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits179
- Guided learning426 hours
- Units in this qualification15
Awarded by City and Guilds of London Institute · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
The qualification covers a wide range of engineering maintenance disciplines related to the Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering sector, allowing individuals to demonstrate their occupational competence through the development of hand-skills and gaining knowledge.
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.
Complying with Statutory Regulations and Organisational Safety RequirementsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand and apply statutory regulations and organisational safety requirements in engineering.
Conducting Business Improvement ActivitiesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and implement business improvement initiatives in engineering operations.
General Maintenance Engineering ApplicationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Apply general maintenance practices in engineering settings.
Handing over and confirming completion of maintenance activitiesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Effectively hand over and confirm maintenance activities.
Maintaining emergency power generating equipmentReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Perform maintenance on emergency power systems to ensure reliability.
Maintaining fluid power equipment within an engineered systemReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain and troubleshoot fluid power equipment effectively.
Preparing and Using Manual Metal Arc Welding EquipmentReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate the proper use of manual metal arc welding equipment.
Preparing and Using Milling MachinesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare and operate milling machines safely and effectively.
Producing Aircraft Detail AssembliesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Produce detailed assemblies for aircraft based on specifications.
Producing CAD Models (Drawings) using a CAD SystemReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Produce accurate CAD models and drawings for engineering applications.
Producing Components using Hand Fitting TechniquesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate proficiency in hand fitting techniques for component production.
Producing replacement components for maintenance activitiesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Effectively produce replacement components for maintenance purposes.
Testing electrical equipment and circuitsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Conduct proper testing procedures for electrical equipment and circuits.
Using and Interpreting Engineering Data and DocumentationReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Use and interpret engineering data accurately in a variety of contexts.
Working Efficiently and Effectively in EngineeringReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate effective working practices in an engineering environment.
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
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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.
- Carrying out maintenance on emergency power generation equipment
- Conducting Business Improvement Activities
- Maintain emergency power generation equipment used in food and drink operations
- Maintaining emergency power generation equipment
- Preparing and using milling machines
- Preparing and using milling machines Legacy
- Producing replacement components for maintenance activities
- Testing electrical equipment and circuits
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
This unit covers the knowledge and skills required to comply with safety regulations and requirements in an engineering environment.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for City & Guilds Level 3 NVQ Extended Diploma in Engineering Maintenance
15 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by City and Guilds of London Institute.
- Complying with Statutory Regulations and Organisational Safety Requirements
- Conducting Business Improvement Activities
- General Maintenance Engineering Applications
- Handing over and confirming completion of maintenance activities
- Maintaining emergency power generating equipment
- Maintaining fluid power equipment within an engineered system
and 9 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.