Qualifications Scotland · RQF Level 6
SQA Level 6 NVQ Diploma in Construction Contracting Operations Management
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 6
- Total credits81
- Guided learning275 hours
- Units in this qualification18
Awarded by Qualifications Scotland · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Qualifications Scotland 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, monitor and optimise materials, plant and services in construction contracting operations managementReal unit · Qualifications Scotland
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse and monitor requirements for supplies
- Understand how to analyse and monitor requirements for supplies
- Optimise supplier performance
- Understand how to optimise supplier performance
Chair meeting and take decisions in construction contracting operations managementReal unit · Qualifications Scotland
What you'll be able to do
- Chair meetings
- Understand how to chair meetings
- Analyse information for decision making
- Understand how to analyse information for decision making
Control contract work in construction contracting operations managementReal unit · Qualifications Scotland
What you'll be able to do
- Control contracts against agreed quality standards and guidance
- Understand how to control contracts against agreed quality standards and guidance
- Maintain contract compliance with statutory and contractual requirements
- Understand how to maintain contract compliance with statutory and contractual requirements
Develop and agree detailed project designs in construction contracting operations managementReal unit · Qualifications Scotland
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and coordinate the methods for preparing initial designs
- Understand how to identify and coordinate the methods for preparing initial designs
- Select materials, components and systems
- Understand how to select materials, components and systems
- Analyse, select and present detailed design solutions
- Understand how to analyse, select and present detailed design solutions
Develop and maintain working relationships and personal development in construction contracting operations managementReal unit · Qualifications Scotland
What you'll be able to do
- Develop and maintain working relationships
- Understand how to develop and maintain working relationships
- Undertake personal development in the occupational practice area
- Understand how to undertake personal development in the occupational practice area
- Practice in an ethical manner
- Understand how to practice in an ethical manner
Establish the condition of property in construction contracting operations managementReal unit · Qualifications Scotland
What you'll be able to do
- Recommend and agree a condition survey process
- Understand how to recommend and agree a condition survey process
- Investigate property for condition
- Understand how to investigate property for condition
- Prepare and present condition survey reports and records
- Understand how to prepare and present condition survey reports and records
Evaluate enquiries and submit tenders in construction contracting operations managementReal unit · Qualifications Scotland
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate tender enquiry documentation
- Understand how to evaluate tender enquiry documentation
- Finalise and submit a tender
- Understand how to finalise and submit a tender
Evaluate work methods and programme in construction contracting operations managementReal unit · Qualifications Scotland
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate, review and select work methods
- Understand how to evaluate, review and select work methods
- Evaluate project programme
- Understand how to evaluate project programme
Identify, assess and evaluate project requirements in construction contracting operations managementReal unit · Qualifications Scotland
What you'll be able to do
- Identify, assess and agree project requirements and stakeholder preferences
- Understand how to identify, assess and agree project requirements and stakeholder preferences
- Identify, assess and evaluate resource procurement factors
- Understand how to identify, assess and evaluate resource procurement factors
Implement strategic and integrated supply chain management and sourcing partnerships in construction contracting operations managementReal unit · Qualifications Scotland
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate and agree the benefits and risks of strategic sourcing
- Understand how to evaluate and agree the benefits and risks of strategic sourcing
- Agree and implement alignment of systems
- Understand how to agree and implement alignment of systems
- Monitor and control supply chain arrangements
- Understand how to monitor and control supply chain arrangements
Maintain health, safety and welfare systems in construction contracting operations managementReal unit · Qualifications Scotland
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain health, safety and welfare in the workplace
- Understand how to maintain health, safety and welfare in the workplace
- Identify hazards and assess risks in the workplace
- Understand how to identify hazards and assess risks in the workplace
- Identify and implement methods and procedures to reduce risk
- Understand how to identify and implement methods and procedures to reduce risk
Obtain tenders and appoint successful contractors in construction contracting operations managementReal unit · Qualifications Scotland
What you'll be able to do
- Shortlist tenderers
- Understand how to shortlist tenderers
- Select documents
- Understand how to select documents
- Obtain tenders
- Understand how to obtain tenders
- Evaluate tenders and appoint contractors
- Understand how to evaluate tenders and appoint contractors
Optimise and control contract progress and costs in construction contracting operations managementReal unit · Qualifications Scotland
What you'll be able to do
- Optimise contract progress
- Understand how to optimise contract progress
- Control contract costs
- Understand how to control contract costs
Plan measured surveys in construction contracting operations managementReal unit · Qualifications Scotland
What you'll be able to do
- Identify investigation requirements
- Understand how to identify investigation requirements
- Identify survey requirements
- Understand how to identify survey requirements
- Select survey processes and operations
- Understand how to select survey processes and operations
- Investigate and evaluate project factors
- Understand how to investigate and evaluate project factors
Plan, allocate and monitor work in own area of responsibilityReal unit · Qualifications Scotland
What you'll be able to do
- Produce a work plan for own area of responsibility
- Allocate and agree responsibilities with team members
- Monitor the progress and quality of work in own area of responsibility and provide feedback
- Review and amend plans of work for own area of responsibility and communicate changes
Prepare and agree contract accounts and entitlement in construction contracting operations managementReal unit · Qualifications Scotland
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare and agree interim valuations and final accounts
- Understand how to prepare and agree interim valuations and final accounts
- Prepare and agree compensation events and entitlement for reimbursement for loss and expense
- Understand how to prepare and agree compensation events and entitlement for reimbursement for loss and expense
Prepare procurement schedules and programmes of works in construction contracting operations managementReal unit · Qualifications Scotland
What you'll be able to do
- Develop a schedule of works
- Understand how to develop a schedule of works
- Develop a procurement programme
- Understand how to develop a procurement programme
Specify and control production documents in construction contracting operations managementReal unit · Qualifications Scotland
What you'll be able to do
- Specify production document requirements
- Understand how to specify production document requirements
- Prepare prescriptive specifications
- Understand how to prepare prescriptive specifications
- Control and maintain project information
- Understand how to control and maintain project information
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.
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 6 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.
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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.
- Contribute to assessing of the condition of property
- Control contract work
- Coordinate project designs
- Develop a procurement plan and optimise supplier and service provider performance
- Develop a programme of works and a procurement programme
- Develop a supply chain strategy for your organisation (Commissioning Contracting and Procurement)
- Establish the condition of property
- Evaluate enquiries and submit tenders in construction contracting operations management
Where this can lead
Lead Service Level Monitoring Architect
Your journey as a Lead Service Level Monitoring Architect is just one step on a path that can take you to the very top of service delivery and operational leadership. We're here to help you build the skills and experience to get there, whatever your ambition.
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 SQA Level 6 NVQ Diploma in Construction Contracting Operations Management
18 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Qualifications Scotland.
- Analyse, monitor and optimise materials, plant and services in construction contracting operations management
- Chair meeting and take decisions in construction contracting operations management
- Control contract work in construction contracting operations management
- Develop and agree detailed project designs in construction contracting operations management
- Develop and maintain working relationships and personal development in construction contracting operations management
- Establish the condition of property in construction contracting operations management
and 12 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.