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- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer Engineering Construction Industry Training Board has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and Engineering Construction Industry Training Board awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Engineering Construction Industry Training Board.
Aimed at those in the engineering sector, this occupational diploma develops advanced project controls practice and techniques. Learners will gain skills in estimating, optimisation, communication, forecasting, and performance monitoring. The qualification enables individuals to influence project decisions and improve project outcomes.
These are the units Engineering Construction Industry Training Board 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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with Engineering Construction Industry Training Board. It does the teaching and the mapping. Engineering Construction Industry Training Board sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Applying change control processes and management Real unit · Engineering Construction Industry Training Board
What you'll be able to do
- Apply change control processes to support project control delivery, taking into account the appropriate commercial arrangements, and justify actions taken
- Implement planned and unplanned project controls-related changes to meet project and organisational requirements in a controlled and coordinated manner appropriate to the change scale
Applying cost engineering practice to set budgets and cost baselines Real unit · Engineering Construction Industry Training Board
What you'll be able to do
- Set a budget and cost baseline that meet the requirements of an agreed project scope.
- Develop a risk and contingency budget and drawdown plan.
- Provide confidence in budget and cost baseline information and related recommendations.
- Demonstrate insight into the other project control functions and how cost engineering should interact to meet requirements.
Applying data-centric execution and analytics Real unit · Engineering Construction Industry Training Board
What you'll be able to do
- Critique a data system used within a project control environment and recommend how it may be improved to achieve better control-related outcomes
- Critique breakdown structures and coding structures and recommend how they may be improved to achieve better control-related outcomes
Applying estimating practice to meet requirements Real unit · Engineering Construction Industry Training Board
What you'll be able to do
- Develop estimates (time and cost) that meet the requirements of the project
- Determine the accuracy of estimates (time and cost) and estimating information by using estimating assurance techniques
- Provide confidence in estimating information and related recommendations by providing and justifying associated estimating narratives and frameworks
- Demonstrate insight into the other project control functions and how estimating should interact to meet requirements
Applying integrated project controls practice Real unit · Engineering Construction Industry Training Board
What you'll be able to do
- Develop a time and cost estimate that meets requirements of a project.
- Develop a project plan and schedule that meet requirements of a project.
- Establish a budget and cost baseline that meets requirements of a project.
- Provide confidence in project controls information by using assurance techniques and justifying associated narrative.
- Demonstrate insight into the project control functions and how all functions should interact to meet requirements.
Applying optimisation and performance improvement Real unit · Engineering Construction Industry Training Board
What you'll be able to do
- Plan and carry out optimisation and performance improvement
Applying planning and scheduling practice to meet requirements Real unit · Engineering Construction Industry Training Board
What you'll be able to do
- Develop a project plan that meets the specified requirements of the project
- Develop a schedule that reflects the project plan by integrating required events, activities and resources with credible logic flow, sequences and durations
- Provide confidence in scheduling information and related recommendations using scheduling assurance techniques and scheduling narratives
- Demonstrate insight into the other project control functions and how planning and scheduling should interact to meet the project requirements
Communicating to advise and influence project decisions Real unit · Engineering Construction Industry Training Board
What you'll be able to do
- Build a co-operative network of stakeholders to support delivery of project controls outcomes
- Collaborate and interact with stakeholders in order to deliver project controls outcomes and build co-operative relationships, including adapting stakeholder interaction in different and evolving circumstances
Controlling uncertainties with project risk and assumption management Real unit · Engineering Construction Industry Training Board
What you'll be able to do
- Identify, analyse and evaluate relevant risks and assumptions to determine the potential impact on project control-related activities
- Recommend project controls-related mitigation and control measures to ensure relevant risks and assumptions are built into project controls activities
Defining requirements and preparing a project controls plan Real unit · Engineering Construction Industry Training Board
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare a project controls plan that meets the requirements of a project specification
- Recommend project controls requirements to meet the needs of the project
Developing own professional competence Real unit · Engineering Construction Industry Training Board
What you'll be able to do
- Formulate, maintain and review a personal professional development plan
- Critique how project controls activities can be applied to support governance requirements
- Make recommendations based on current good practice to support continuous improvement and lessons learned for project controls practice within your own organisation
- Critique the approach taken to digital engineering and data analytics to underpin project controls delivery within your own organisation and recommend and justify improvements to achieve better control outcomes now and potentially in the future
- Recommend project controls activities that could be implemented to support the drive towards net zero carbon/environmental sustainability
- Produce and present a summary report of all recommendations made within unit APC01
Forecasting to influence future conditions Real unit · Engineering Construction Industry Training Board
What you'll be able to do
- Forecast future project conditions and make recommendations.
- Produce what-if forecasts for different scenarios and recommend courses of action based on these.
- Prepare forecasting data and information for stakeholder communication.
Managing commercial and contractual arrangements Real unit · Engineering Construction Industry Training Board
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare project controls content for use in contracts, bid and tender management and procurement.
- Critique bid, tender, contractual and procurement information from a project controls perspective, and make recommendations.
- Support claim management and dispute resolution from a project controls perspective (including change management).
Monitoring and controlling progress and performance Real unit · Engineering Construction Industry Training Board
What you'll be able to do
- Track and monitor the progress and performance of project elements.
- Analyse data to uncover patterns and trends, including making comparisons between planned and actual progress and performance.
- Interpret and evaluate patterns and trends in datasets to provide insights into progress and performance.
- Make recommendations, as appropriate, for maintaining progress and performance or for project recovery.
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
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Build and implement data processing systems
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Maintain communication with project stakeholders
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Monitor and control project scope
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Monitor and control the delivery of an IT project
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Monitor the achievement of project tasks
The jobs these credits are mapped to
A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.
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Showing 6 roles, drawn from 62 job records mapped to this qualification. Near-identical records are folded together, and each row says how many it stands for.
Where this can lead
Chief Project Advisor
This work can lead to managing larger programmes as a Lead Project Advisor. It can also lead to a Principal Project Advisor role, overseeing a portfolio of projects and a team of advisors.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 6 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Engineering Construction Industry Training Board rather than by Zavmo. 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 have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Applying change control processes and managementApplying cost engineering practice to set budgets and cost baselinesApplying data-centric execution and analyticsApplying estimating practice to meet requirementsApplying integrated project controls practiceApplying optimisation and performance improvementApplying planning and scheduling practice to meet requirementsCommunicating to advise and influence project decisions
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
The Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration - Bring your own plan Create
For “Applying integrated project controls practice” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.
- Draft the real one Create
You do “Applying cost engineering practice to set budgets and cost baselines” on a real document of your own. Zavmo works on the draft you have to send anyway, so the coursework and the job are the same piece of work.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Applying data-centric execution and analytics” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.
- Lead it Apply
“Applying change control processes and management” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
- Build and implement data processing systems
- Maintain communication with project stakeholders
- Monitor and control project scope
- Monitor and control the delivery of an IT project
- Monitor the achievement of project tasks
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Applying change control processes and management, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit equips learners to apply change control processes to manage project scope, schedule, and budget changes. Learners will justify actions taken, considering commercial arrangements, and implement both planned and unplanned changes in a controlled and coordinated manner.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for ECITB Level 6 Diploma in Advanced Project Controls Practice and Techniques (RQF)
14 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Engineering Construction Industry Training Board.
- Applying change control processes and management
- Applying cost engineering practice to set budgets and cost baselines
- Applying data-centric execution and analytics
- Applying estimating practice to meet requirements
- Applying integrated project controls practice
- Applying optimisation and performance improvement
and 8 more in the full unit list below.
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