How you’d get this certificate
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- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited.
The qualification develops the skills needed for an occupational entry role in mechanical maintenance. Learners gain knowledge of sustainable engineering, mathematics, science, and safety practices. It is suitable for those seeking a career in the engineering sector.
These are the units Excellence, Achievement & Learning 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. 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 Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited. It does the teaching and the mapping. Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited 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
Engineering environment awareness Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate an awareness of health and safety requirements within an engineering environment.
- Understand environmental considerations within an engineering environment.
- Recognise potential hazards within an engineering environment.
- Understand the importance of following procedures in an engineering environment.
Engineering mathematics and science principles Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand engineering mathematics principles
- Understand engineering science principles
Engineering techniques Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate awareness of a range of engineering techniques.
- Apply appropriate engineering techniques to given tasks.
- Understand the importance of accuracy when using engineering techniques.
Mechanical maintenance planning Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the importance of planning mechanical maintenance activities
- Describe the steps involved in planning mechanical maintenance
- Identify resources required for mechanical maintenance tasks
- Develop a basic mechanical maintenance plan
Mechanical maintenance safety practices Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Describe safe working practices relevant to mechanical maintenance
- Identify potential hazards associated with mechanical maintenance activities
- Explain the importance of following safety procedures during mechanical maintenance
- Demonstrate the correct use of personal protective equipment (PPE) in mechanical maintenance
Mechanical maintenance techniques Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Describe a range of mechanical maintenance techniques
- Explain the purpose of different mechanical maintenance techniques
- Apply appropriate mechanical maintenance techniques to specific tasks
- Identify common mechanical faults and their causes
Sustainable engineering Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate an awareness of the engineering environment
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.
- 1 record
Where this can lead
Senior Maintenance Planner
This role can lead to managing maintenance and reliability for a whole site, moving into wider plant operations leadership, or working as a specialist reliability engineer.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 2 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited 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
Engineering environment awarenessEngineering mathematics and science principlesEngineering techniquesMechanical maintenance planningMechanical maintenance safety practicesMechanical maintenance techniquesSustainable engineering
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 “Mechanical maintenance planning” 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.
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 Engineering environment awareness, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit provides learners with knowledge of health and safety legislation relevant to engineering environments, safe working practices, and the role of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). Learners will understand how to identify hazards and implement measures to maintain safety.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
It is £70 a month, billed monthly. Your free first module is Future Fluency, and you can cancel any time. Teaching towards this qualification begins when you subscribe.
Built for EAL Level 2 Extended Technical Occupational Entry in Mechanical Maintenance (Diploma)
7 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited.
- Engineering environment awareness
- Engineering mathematics and science principles
- Engineering techniques
- Mechanical maintenance planning
- Mechanical maintenance safety practices
- Mechanical maintenance techniques
and 1 more in the full unit list below.
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The title, level, credits, guided learning hours and unit learning outcomes on this page are taken from the Ofqual Register of Regulated Qualifications. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Where this data comes from.