NOCN · RQF Level 5
NOCN Level 5 Diploma in Mechanical Engineering (Mechatronics and Smart Manufacturing)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 5
- Guided learning3,342 hours
- Units in this qualification11
Awarded by NOCN · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
NOCN offers a broad range of qualifications and alternative routes for both experienced workers and new entrants to the jobs market.
These are the units NOCN 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.
Applied Project and Quality ManagementReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse projects and project management approaches in own context.
- Develop a comprehensive plan for project management in relation to chosen project.
- Understand the importance of establishing a quality culture.
- Implement project governance and ethical frameworks.
- Evaluate project closure processes.
Building Relationships in a Workplace SettingReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of communication in the workplace.
- Explore team dynamics and its influence on work.
Building Relationships in a Workplace SettingReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of building meaningful and mutually supportive relationships with both internal and external individuals of the business in a workplace setting.
- Use appropriate tools to identify stakeholders and their requirements in a workplace setting.
- Recognise opportunities for resource sharing with partners in a workplace setting.
- Prepare for effective negotiation to reach desired outcomes in a workplace setting.
- Understand strategies for reducing, minimising and dealing with conflict in a workplace setting.
Maintain Systems and Processes for Health, Safety, Welfare and Environmental Protection in an Engineering EnvironmentReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand health and safety regulations.
- Maintain environmental protection standards.
Maintain Systems and Processes for Health, Safety, Welfare and Environmental Protection in an Engineering EnvironmentReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Develop and promote health, safety, welfare and environmental awareness in an engineering environment.
- Review existing practice to identify opportunities for improvements and communicate appropriate improvement measures.
- Manage the access and induction to engineering environments for all relevant stakeholders.
- Check the competence of those under direct line management.
- Communicate health, safety, welfare and environmental information in an engineering environment.
- Review the serviceability of health, safety and welfare equipment and resources.
- Employ health, safety, welfare and environmental systems, identify hazards and reduce risks; report accidents and emergencies and prevent recurrence.
- Monitor health, safety, welfare and environmental protection systems regularly to meet organisational and regulatory requirements.
- Identify and report special conditions which contravene usual organisation and/or regulatory requirements.
Mechatronics Engineering and Smart FactoryReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Communicate effectively using English Language.
- Apply the concepts of mathematics to solve problems for engineering.
- Apply the concepts of applied science to engineering.
- Apply the concepts of metrology to mechatronics engineering and smart factory.
- Apply the fundamental concepts of electronics to engineering.
- Apply the fundamental concepts of electrical engineering to engineering.
- Apply knowledge gained in the applied science laboratory for engineering.
- Apply knowledge gained in the fundamental electronics laboratory for engineering.
- Apply knowledge gained in the fundamental electrical engineering laboratory for engineering.
- Apply the concepts of engineering drawing to engineering.
- Apply the practical concepts to a workshop situation for mechatronics and smart factory.
- Apply knowledge gained in the computer laboratory for engineering.
- Apply the concepts of manufacturing engineering to mechatronics engineering and smart factory.
- Apply the principles of electronics to mechatronics engineering and smart factory.
- Apply the concepts of electrical engineering to engineering.
- Apply the principles of wiring practices to mechatronics engineering and smart factory.
- Apply knowledge gained in the electronics laboratory for mechatronics engineering and smart factory.
- Apply knowledge gained in the electrical engineering laboratory for mechatronics engineering and smart factory.
- Apply the concepts of computer-aided design to mechatronics engineering and smart factory.
- Apply the principles of digital electronics to engineering.
- Apply the concepts of control systems to mechatronics engineering and smart factory.
- Apply the concepts of computer programming C, C++ to engineering.
- Apply the principles of industrial electronics to mechatronics engineering and smart factory.
- Apply the principles of machine mechanics to mechatronics engineering and smart factory.
- Apply knowledge gained in the digital electronics laboratory for engineering.
- Apply knowledge gained in the computer programming laboratory C, C++ for engineering.
- Apply knowledge gained in the industrial electronics laboratory for mechatronics engineering and smart factory.
- Apply knowledge gained in the printed circuit board design and fabrication laboratory for mechatronics engineering and smart factory.
- Apply the principles of microcontroller and applications to mechatronics engineering and smart factory.
- Apply the concepts of computer programming and database to engineering.
- Apply the concepts of pneumatics and hydraulics to mechatronics engineering and smart factory.
- Apply the principles of programmable logic controllers to mechatronics engineering and smart factory.
- Apply measurement and instrumentation techniques to mechatronics engineering and smart factory.
- Apply the principles of applied mechanics to mechatronics engineering and smart factory.
- Apply knowledge gained in the microcontroller and applications laboratory to mechatronics engineering and smart factory.
- Apply knowledge gained in the programming language and database laboratory for mechatronics engineering and smart factory.
- Apply knowledge gained in the pneumatics and hydraulics laboratory for mechatronics engineering and smart factory.
- Apply knowledge gained in the measurement and instrumentation laboratory for mechatronics engineering and smart factory.
- Apply knowledge gained in the programmable logic controller laboratory for mechatronics engineering and smart factory.
- Apply the principles of embedded systems and the internet of things to mechatronics engineering and smart factory.
- Apply the principles of advanced programmable logic control to mechatronics engineering and smart factory.
- Apply the principles of robotics to mechatronics engineering and smart factory.
- Apply the concepts of computer numerical control technology to mechatronics engineering and smart factory.
- Apply the concepts of product design and development to mechatronics engineering and smart factory.
- Apply knowledge gained in the embedded systems and internet of things laboratory for mechatronics engineering and smart factory.
- Apply knowledge gained in the advanced programmable logic control laboratory for mechatronics engineering and smart factory.
- Apply knowledge gained in the robotics laboratory for mechatronics engineering and smart factory.
- Apply knowledge gained in the computer numerical control laboratory for mechatronics engineering and smart factory.
- Undertake project design.
Mechatronics Engineering and Smart FactoryReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand mechatronics principles.
- Explore smart manufacturing technologies.
Operations Management in a Workplace SettingReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of operations management within the overall leadership and management context in a workplace setting.
- Understand the strategic planning process of moving from an organisational mission and vision statement to establishing action plans for sub-units in a workplace setting.
- Understand performance measures appropriate to different hierarchical levels and organisational sub-units in a workplace setting.
- Understand how workforce planning could be used to support given operational activities in a workplace setting.
- Understand the role of data analysis as part of a structured problem-solving methodology in supporting planning and decision-making in a workplace setting.
Operations Management in a Workplace SettingReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of operations management.
- Analyse operational processes.
Supply Chain Management in a Workplace SettingReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the chain of events in business-to-business supply in a workplace setting.
- Understand how to improve the productivity of a supply chain in a workplace setting.
Supply Chain Management in a Workplace SettingReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand supply chain dynamics.
- Assess risks in the supply chain.
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 5 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.
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- Manage and develop systems and procedures in a continuing airworthiness environment
Where this can lead
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Your journey in HSE starts here with a solid foundation, but the possibilities for growth and impact are truly vast. We're looking for someone who sees this role not just as a job, but as a critical step in a rewarding career dedicated to protecting people and the planet.
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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
Learners will analyse project management methodologies and develop comprehensive project plans. The unit also covers establishing a quality culture, implementing governance and ethical frameworks, and managing project delivery within organisational contexts.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for NOCN Level 5 Diploma in Mechanical Engineering (Mechatronics and Smart Manufacturing)
6 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by NOCN.
- Applied Project and Quality Management
- Building Relationships in a Workplace Setting
- Maintain Systems and Processes for Health, Safety, Welfare and Environmental Protection in an Engineering Environment
- Mechatronics Engineering and Smart Factory
- Operations Management in a Workplace Setting
- Supply Chain Management in a Workplace Setting
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
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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.