ETC Awards Limited · RQF Level 2
ETCAL Level 2 Technical Occupational Entry in Maintenance (Diploma)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits52
- Guided learning430 hours
- Units in this qualification8
Awarded by ETC Awards Limited · on the Ofqual register
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
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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.
Control of Moving Parts Using Fluid Power (Hydraulics/Pneumatics)Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand and apply safe working practices associated with fluid power circuit systems, including hydraulic and pneumatic operation.
- Understand and interpret various types of engineering drawings drawn to specified standards.
- Produce a fluid power assembly.
- Produce a fluid power assembly.
- Test and fault-find fluid power systems.
Engineering Information and TechniquesReal unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand engineering work instructions
- Understand drawings used by engineering businesses
- Understand quality processes in engineering
Engineering Mathematics and Science PrinciplesReal unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand arithmetical and trigonometrical applications in an engineering context.
- Determine perimeters, areas and volumes of shapes relevant to engineering applications.
- Understand terminology used in engineering science, including units of measurement and scientific principles.
- Understand the effect of temperature changes to engineering materials, including expansion and contraction.
- Understand the properties of engineering materials, such as strength, hardness, and conductivity.
Health & Safety within EngineeringReal unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know the statutory health and safety regulations applicable to an engineering environment and the organisation's specific safety requirements.
- Know and apply safe working practices within the engineering working environment to minimise risks and ensure personal and team safety.
Maintaining Electrical Equipment/SystemsReal unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Apply safe working practices whilst maintaining electrical equipment/systems.
- Plan working activities whilst maintaining electrical equipment/systems.
- Inspect and diagnose components and systems requiring maintenance on electrical equipment/systems.
- Carry out maintenance activities, including the repair and replacement of components, on electrical equipment/systems.
- Carry out tests on maintained electrical equipment in accordance with test schedules/defined test procedures.
- Report on maintenance activity carried out on electrical equipment/systems.
- Reinstate the working area after maintaining electrical equipment/systems.
Maintaining Mechanical Devices and EquipmentReal unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Apply health and safety practices when maintaining mechanical devices and equipment.
- Plan work activities for maintaining mechanical devices and equipment.
- Inspect and diagnose components and systems requiring maintenance on mechanical devices and equipment.
- Carry out maintenance activities, including the repair and replacement of components, on mechanical devices and equipment.
- Test components and systems of mechanical devices and equipment after maintenance.
- Reinstate the working area after maintaining mechanical devices and equipment.
Manufacturing Components using Hand Fitting Skills (for Maintenance)Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Apply safe working practices whilst undertaking hand fitting skills.
- Plan for hand fitting activities.
- Produce individual components, sub-assemblies or completed assemblies using hand fitting skills.
- Identify and use a range of measuring equipment to carry out quality inspections on hand fitted components.
Working Effectively, Efficiently and Sustainably in EngineeringReal unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the various roles and responsibilities within the engineering sector.
- Understand the importance of aligning business and personal goals and targets for effective performance.
- Understand how waste generation and disposal can negatively impact the environment.
- Understand the legal requirements and regulations related to waste management in an engineering context.
- Understand how to minimise environmental impact through the implementation of recycling operations and sustainable practices.
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.
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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
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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 preventative and corrective maintenance on electrical equipment and systems in engineering construction plant
- Carry out routine maintenance, cleaning and checking of scientific or technical equipment
- Carrying out maintenance activities on electrical equipment
- Carrying out scheduled maintenance tasks on electrical equipment
- Maintain Forecourt Equipment at Petrol Filling Stations
- Maintain Solar PV and EESS systems
- Maintain electrical systems and equipment
- Maintain electrical systems and equipment at Petrol Filling Stations
Where this can lead
VP of Engineering & Facilities
This VP role isn't just a job; it's a critical step in a distinguished career. We're looking for someone who wants to leave a lasting mark on our organisation and the wider industry, leading the charge in creating truly intelligent, sustainable, and resilient built environments. The opportunities for impact and personal growth here are immense.
See the whole journey →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 develop an understanding of safe working practices with fluid power systems, including hydraulics and pneumatics. The unit covers interpreting engineering drawings, assembling fluid power components, and testing and fault-finding within these systems.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for ETCAL Level 2 Technical Occupational Entry in Maintenance (Diploma)
8 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ETC Awards Limited.
- Control of Moving Parts Using Fluid Power (Hydraulics/Pneumatics)
- Engineering Information and Techniques
- Engineering Mathematics and Science Principles
- Health & Safety within Engineering
- Maintaining Electrical Equipment/Systems
- Maintaining Mechanical Devices and Equipment
and 2 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.
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