Occupational Awards Limited · RQF Level 2
OAL Level 2 Certificate in Food Manufacturing Excellence
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits27
- Guided learning112 hours
- Units in this qualification35
Awarded by Occupational Awards Limited · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Occupational Awards 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, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Contribute to continuous improvement in food operationsReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Identify workplace improvements in food operations
- Share and communicate ideas for improvement in food operations
- Agree, test and evaluate plan for improvements in food operations
Contribute to problem diagnosis in food operationsReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Contribute to identifying problems in food operations
- Contribute to problem diagnosis in food operations
- Contribute to reporting problems in food operations
Contribute to problem resolution in food operationsReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Contribute to problem solving in food operations
- Contribute to implementing solutions to problems in food operations
- Contribute to reporting problems in food operations
Contribute to sustainable practice in food operationsReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Contribute to sustainability in food operations
Contribute to the application of improvement techniques in food operationsReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Identify opportunities for the application of improvement techniques in food operations
- Apply improvement techniques in food operations
- Obtain and provide feedback about the application of improvement techniques in food operations
Contribute to the collection of improvement performance data in food operationsReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Contribute to planning for the measurement and recording of improvements in food operations
- Contribute to measurement and recording of improvements in food operations
- Contribute to the collection and reporting of improvement data in food operations
Contribute to the development of product specifications in food operationsReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Contribute to identifying criteria for product specifications in food operations
- Contribute to the development of draft criteria for product specifications in food operations
- Contribute to confirming a final product specification in food operations
Contribute to the improvement of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in food operationsReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Identify opportunities for SOP development in food operations
- Make recommendations for SOP development in food operations
- Obtain and provide feedback on SOP development in food operations
Contribute to the improvement of maintenance in food operationsReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Identify opportunities for improvement to maintenance activities in food operations
- Plan the implementation of maintenance improvements in food operations
- Support the implementation of improvement activity or proactive maintenance in food operations
Contribute to the maintenance of compliance in improving food operationsReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Comply with regulations in own work area in food operations
- Make recommendations for improving compliance in food operations
- Obtain and provide feedback on compliance in food operations
Contribute to the reduction of conflict in improving food operationsReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Take pre-emptive action to avoid conflict in food operations
- Deal with conflict in food operations
- Obtain support and complete conflict records in food operations
Maintain product quality in food operationsReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Conduct quality sampling in food operations
- Communicate results of quality sampling in food operations
Maintain workplace food safety standards in operationsReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Keep the workspace clean and hygienic in food operations
- Maintain food safety in food operations
Maintain workplace health and safety standards in food operationsReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Work in accordance with organisational health and safety requirements in food operations
- Follow organisational emergency procedures in food operations
- Use personal protective equipment in food operations
Organise and improve work activities in food operationsReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Organise your own work activities in food operations
- Work effectively in food operations
- Communicate with others in food operations
Principles of HACCP-based food safety management systemsReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and requirements of a HACCP-based food safety management system
- Understand the operational features and terminology of a HACCP-based food safety management system
- Understand how a HACCP-based food safety management system is developed and used
Principles of Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED) in food operationsReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the SMED approach, objective and its contribution to Total Productive Maintenance in food operations
- Understand a changeover operation and techniques considered for SMED analysis in food operations
- Understand how to analyse and improve changeovers using SMED in food operations
- Understand the potential benefits and added value of SMED in food operations
Principles of continuous improvement in food operationsReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the features and importance of Kaizen in food operations
- Understand the requirements for Kaizen and problem solving in food operations
- Understand how to interact with Kaizen activity in food operations
Understand how to contribute to continuous improvement in food operationsReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of continuous improvement in food operations
- Understand the resources and measures to support a continuous improvement activity in food operations
- Understand how to support and communicate continuous improvement activity in food operations
Understand how to contribute to problem diagnosis in food operationsReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to contribute to identifying problems in your area of work in food operations
- Understand how to contribute to analysing and reporting problems within own work area in food operations
Understand how to contribute to problem resolution in food operationsReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to contribute to problem solving in own area of work in food operations
- Understand how to contribute to implementing resolutions to problems in food operations
Understand how to contribute to sustainable practice in food operationsReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the requirements for sustainable practice in food operations
- Understand how to contribute to sustainable practice in food operations
Understand how to contribute to the application of improvement techniques in food operationsReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the objectives and benefits of improvement techniques in food operations
- Understand how to use information and communication for improvement techniques in food operations
- Understand how to make recommendations and feedback improvement issues in food operations
Understand how to contribute to the collection of improvement performance data in food operationsReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the organisational vision and objectives for improvement in food operations
- Understand how to use data for improvement in food operations
- Understand how to communicate and record data for improvement in food operations
Understand how to contribute to the development of product specifications in food operationsReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to identify and develop criteria for product specifications in food operations
- Understand the product specification consultation process in food operations
- Understand how to agree final product specifications in food operations
Understand how to contribute to the improvement of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in food operationsReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and objectives of SOPs in food operations
- Understand the process of developing and communicating SOPs in food operations
Understand how to contribute to the improvement of maintenance in food operationsReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and objectives of proactive maintenance in food operations
- Understand the role information and data play in proactive maintenance in food operations
- Understand how to identify and communicate maintenance improvements in food operations
Understand how to contribute to the maintenance of compliance in improving food operationsReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand regulations in food operations
- Understand procedures for ensuring compliance in own work area in food operations
- Understand workplace hazards in food operations
Understand how to contribute to the reduction of conflict in improving food operationsReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to communicate effectively in food operations
- Understand company systems for dealing with conflict in food operations
- Understand different ways of managing conflict in food operations
Understand how to maintain product quality in food operationsReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to carry out quality sampling in food operations
- Understand how to record and store quality information accurately in food operations
- Understand the importance of communicating quality results in food operations
Understand how to maintain workplace food safety standards in operationsReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of safe food handling practices in food operations
- Understand how to deal with pests and infestations in food operations
- Understand the importance of minimising the risks of contamination and food poisoning in food operations
Understand how to maintain workplace health and safety standards in food operationsReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the main safety risks and hazards in food operations
- Understand the health and safety precautions and procedures in food operations
- Understand the health and safety features of equipment and materials in food operations
Understand how to organise and improve work activities in food operationsReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to organise own work activities in food operations
- Understand how to use organisational techniques in food operations
- Understand how to check the progress and identify opportunities for improvement in food operations
Understand how to work effectively with colleagues in food operationsReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to work effectively with team members
- Understand how to exchange and use information and data
- Understand how to work effectively with operational management
Work effectively with colleagues in food operationsReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Work effectively with team members
- Exchange and use information and data
- Work effectively with operational management
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 2 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
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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.
- Allocate roles and responsibilities for food safety management in manufacture
- Apply a single minute exchange of dies (SMED) system in food and drink operations
- Contribute to amending product specifications in food and drink manufacture
- Contribute to continuous improvement in food and drink operations
- Contribute to improvements in food and drink operations
- Contribute to problem diagnosis in food and drink operations
- Contribute to problem resolution in food and drink operations
- Contribute to the Collection of Improvement Performance Data in Food and Drink Operations
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
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for OAL Level 2 Certificate in Food Manufacturing Excellence
35 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Occupational Awards Limited.
- Contribute to continuous improvement in food operations
- Contribute to problem diagnosis in food operations
- Contribute to problem resolution in food operations
- Contribute to sustainable practice in food operations
- Contribute to the application of improvement techniques in food operations
- Contribute to the collection of improvement performance data in food operations
and 29 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.