ETC Awards Limited · RQF Level 2
ETCAL Level 2 Diploma in Structure Assembly Engineering
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits72
- Guided learning590 hours
- Units in this qualification6
Awarded by ETC 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 ETC 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.
Erect Wall, Floor and Roof Frame StructuresReal unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret information to inform the correct erection of wall, floor and roof frames and structures
- Understand and comply with relevant legislation and guidance whilst erecting frames and structures
- Select the required components, tools and equipment
- Complete erecting work within required timescale and standards
- Comply with specification and tolerances
- Make adjustments to non-compliant installations
Fitting and Constructing Sub-AssembliesReal unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Plan and prepare for bench fitting activities
- Select the required components, tools and equipment
- Complete bench fitting and construction of sub-assemblies within required timescale and standards
- Comply with specification and tolerances
- Make adjustments to non-compliant assemblies
Health and SafetyReal unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the responsibilities for health and safety at work
- Understand the causes of accidents at work
- Identify and select personal protective equipment (PPE) required to complete task in the workplace
- Know the importance of working safely at height in the workplace
- Know the principles of risk assessment and their importance to health and safety at work
- Understand causes of fire and when fire extinguishers should be used
- Understand and demonstrate safe practices whilst working with equipment and materials in a range of environments
- Know the potential risks to health of substances in t
Install basic Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing Service (MEP)Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Read and understand plans / drawing and requirements for services
- Prepare for the installation of requirements and services
- Calculate and select the resources required to minimise waste and complete the installation effectively
- Install requirements and services following plans and drawings, limiting damage and maintaining integrity
- Understand the component characteristics and limitations used in MEP services
- Safely dispose of waste materials
Prepare and Install Sheet / Cladding MaterialsReal unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret information to inform the correct installation of cladding and enclosures
- Select the required components tools and equipment in line with the materials installation specifications
- Preparing work areas to receive linings and sheeting materials
- Install sheet materials following component specifications within required timescale and standards
- Confirm compliance with installation specification and tolerances
- Safely dispose of waste materials
Preparing and Using a CNC MachineReal unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare and use a CNC production machines
- Use a CNC production machine
- Complete production of components within required timescale and standards
- Comply with specification and tolerances
- Make adjustments to non-compliant assemblies
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

The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
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
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Where this can lead
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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 ETCAL Level 2 Diploma in Structure Assembly Engineering
6 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ETC Awards Limited.
- Erect Wall, Floor and Roof Frame Structures
- Fitting and Constructing Sub-Assemblies
- Health and Safety
- Install basic Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing Service (MEP)
- Prepare and Install Sheet / Cladding Materials
- Preparing and Using a CNC Machine
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.