Occupational Awards Limited · RQF Level 3
OAL Level 3 Diploma in Food and Drink 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 credits258
- Guided learning1,450 hours
- Units in this qualification20
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.
Apply mathematical techniques in food and drink engineering maintenanceReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Apply arithmetic methods to solve problems and use in food engineering maintenance
- Apply algebra to solve problems and use in food engineering maintenance
- Apply trigonometry to solve problems and use in food engineering maintenance
- Use statistical methods to display and present data in food engineering maintenance
- Understand measurement in maintenance
Commission and maintain electrical equipment in food and drink engineering maintenanceReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Commission electrical instrumentation and process control systems in food processing/ manufacturing
- Maintain electrical equipment, instrumentation and process control systems in food processing/ manufacturing
- Understand the principles of electrical machines in food processing/ manufacturing
- Understand the principles of testing electrical equipment and circuits in food processing/ manufacturing
Cut and weld materials in food and drink engineering maintenanceReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to cut and weld stainless steel and other materials in food engineering maintenance
- Weld stainless steel and other materials in food engineering maintenance
- Understand the principles of welding in food engineering maintenance
- Understand the principles of cutting in food engineering maintenance
Develop self and maintain professional relationships in food and drink enginering maintenanceReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Develop self in food engineering maintenance
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships and behaviours in food engineering maintenance
- Work individually and as part of a team in food engineering maintenance
- Communicate effectively with others in food engineering maintenance
Maintain compliance in food and drink engineering maintenanceReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain food safety and health and safety compliance in food and drink engineering maintenance
- Understand health, safety and environmental requirements in food processing/ manufacturing
- Understand food safety requirements in food processing/ manufacturing
- Understand cleaning and hygiene processes in food processing/ manufacturing
- Understand the principles of sustainability in food processing/ manufacturing
Maintain fluid power systems in food and drink engineering maintenanceReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain fluid power systems in food processing/ manufacturing
- Understand how to maintain fluid power systems in food processing/ manufacturing
- Understand the function of fluid power systems in food processing/ manufacturing
Monitor mechanical equipment in food and drink engineering maintenanceReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Monitor mechanical equipment in food processing/ manufacturing
- Understand how to monitor mechanical equipment in food processing/ manufacturing
- Carry out specialist maintenance of mechanical equipment in food processing/ manufacturing
Perform first-line electrical maintenance in food and drink engineeringReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain electrical equipment in food processing/ manufacturing
- Understand how to maintain electrical equipment in food processing/ manufacturing
- Understand the application and use of electrical equipment and systems in food processing/manufacturing
- Understand the principles of electrical systems in food processing/ manufacturing
Perform first-line mechanical maintenance in food and drink engineeringReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain mechanical equipment in food processing/ manufacturing
- Understand how to maintain mechanical equipment in food processing/ manufacturing
- Understand the operation of mechanical equipment in food processing/ manufacturing
Perform programmable control system maintenance in food and drink engineeringReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain programmable control systems in automated food processing/ manufacturing
- Understand the operation of process controllers within an engineered system in food processing/ manufacturing
- Understand the principles of process control systems in automated food processing/ manufacturing
Plan and prepare maintenance in food and drink engineeringReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Plan and prepare for maintenance in food processing/ manufacturing
- Understand how to plan and prepare for maintenance in food processing/ manufacturing
- Understand the types and approaches to maintenance applied in food processing/ manufacture
- Understand fault finding techniques in food processing/ manufacturing
Principles of electrical installations BS 7671 (2015)Real unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the scope, principles and definitions of BS 7671
- Understand how to assess general characteristics and the requirements of protection for safety for electrical installations
- Understand the requirements for selection, erection, inspection, testing and special electrical installations
Principles of materials science for food and drink engineering maintenanceReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the scientific principles of food materials
- Understand the uses of food materials and equipment in food processing/ manufacturing
- Understand the scientific principles of food engineering materials
- Understand the applications and failures of food engineering materials
Principles of processing and the supply chain for food and drink engineering maintenanceReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the UK food and drink industry
- Understand the characteristics of a food company
- Understand food processing/ manufacturing in the context of company operations
- Understand product knowledge in the context of company operations
- Understand the impact of customer requirements and demands on the food supply chain
Principles of quality and continuous improvement for food and drink engineering maintenanceReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand quality management systems, and processes used in food operations
- Understand the principles of continuous improvement (CI) management in food operations
- Understand how quality and continuous improvement management is applied in the food business
Principles of services and utilities in food and drink engineering maintenanceReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the provision of water and drainage services in food processing/ manufacturing
- Understand the provision of gas and oil services in food processing/ manufacturing
- Understand the provision of electricity services in food processing/ manufacturing
- Understand the provision of compressed air and refrigeration services in food processing/ manufacturing
- Understand pollution control and energy management in food processing/ manufacturing
Principles of thermodynamics for food and drink engineering maintenanceReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how heat exchange equipment works
- Understand the transfer of heat and conservation of energy
- Understand fluid flow and pumped pipeline systems
Produce complex welded joints in food and drink engineering maintenanceReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Produce complex and welded joints and carry out complex cutting in food processing/ manufacturing
- Review welding activities in food processing/ manufacturing
- Understand how to produce complex welded joints in food processing/ manufacturing
Produce replacement components in food and drink engineering maintenanceReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to produce replacement components in food engineering maintenance
- Produce replacement components in food engineering maintenance
- Understand how to produce components in food engineering maintenance
Repair and produce complex mechanical components in food and drink engineering maintenanceReal unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Repair complex replacement mechanical components in food processing/ manufacturing
- Produce complex replacement mechanical components in food processing/ manufacturing
- Understand how to repair and produce complex replacement components in food processing/ manufacturing
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.
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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.
- Carry out condition monitoring of plant and equipment used within food and drink operations
- Carry out preventative planned maintenance on engineered systems within food and drink operations
- Carry out preventative planned maintenance on services systems and equipment used in food and drink operations
- Comply with statutory regulations and organisational safety requirements in food and drink operations
- Maintain air conditioning and ventilation systems used in food and drink operations
- Maintain fluid power equipment within an engineered system used in food and drink operations
- Maintain fresh water distribution systems and equipment used in food and drink operations
- Maintain heating and ventilation systems used 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 3 Diploma in Food and Drink Engineering Maintenance
20 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Occupational Awards Limited.
- Apply mathematical techniques in food and drink engineering maintenance
- Commission and maintain electrical equipment in food and drink engineering maintenance
- Cut and weld materials in food and drink engineering maintenance
- Develop self and maintain professional relationships in food and drink enginering maintenance
- Maintain compliance in food and drink engineering maintenance
- Maintain fluid power systems in food and drink engineering maintenance
and 14 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.