Pearson Education Ltd · RQF Level 6
Pearson Edexcel Level 6 NVQ Diploma in Construction Contracting Operations Management
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 6
- Total credits115
- Guided learning420 hours
- Units in this qualification19
Awarded by Pearson Education Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
Our Edexcel NVQ and competence-based qualifications are available in a comprehensive range of work sectors.
These are the units Pearson Education Ltd 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.
Controlling contract work in the workplaceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Control contract work against agreed contract quality standards and guidance, ensuring adherence to specifications.
- Maintain contract and statutory compliance throughout the duration of the contract work.
Coordinating project designs in the workplaceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and coordinate the methods for preparing initial designs, considering project requirements
- Select appropriate materials, components, and systems for the project design
- Analyse, select, and present detailed design solutions that meet project specifications and regulations
Developing a procurement plan and optimising supplier and service provider performance in the workplaceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse supply requirements in a procurement context
- Develop a procurement plan based on analysed supply requirements
- Monitor the implementation and effectiveness of a procurement plan
- Optimise supplier performance to meet procurement plan objectives
- Optimise service provider performance to meet procurement plan objectives
Developing a programme of works and a procurement programme in the workplaceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Develop a programme of works, outlining project activities and timelines
- Develop a procurement programme, detailing the acquisition of resources and materials
Developing and maintaining working relationships in the workplaceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders.
- Practice in an ethical manner, adhering to professional codes of conduct and organisational values.
Establishing the condition of property in the workplaceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Recommend and agree a condition survey process
- Survey property to establish its condition
- Prepare and present condition survey reports and records
Evaluating enquiries and submitting tenders in the workplaceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate tender enquiry documentation to determine suitability
- Finalise and submit a tender that meets the client's requirements
Evaluating work methods and developing a programme of works in the workplaceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate different work methods for suitability and efficiency
- Select appropriate work methods based on evaluation criteria
- Develop a programme of works that outlines project activities and timelines
- Integrate selected work methods into the programme of works
Identifying, assessing and evaluating project requirements in the workplaceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify project requirements through appropriate methods
- Assess project requirements to determine their feasibility and impact
- Agree project requirements with relevant stakeholders, considering their preferences
- Identify resource procurement factors relevant to the project
- Assess resource procurement factors to determine their potential impact
- Evaluate resource procurement factors to inform decision-making
Implementing strategic and integrated supply chain management and sourcing partnerships in the workplaceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate the potential benefits of strategic sourcing for the organisation
- Agree on the implementation of strategic sourcing initiatives
- Evaluate the potential risks associated with strategic sourcing
- Agree on the implementation of integrated supply chain management
- Implement alignment of systems to support supply chain integration
- Monitor supply chain arrangements to ensure effectiveness
- Control supply chain arrangements to mitigate risks and optimise performance
Leading meetings and taking decisions in the workplaceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Organise and prepare meetings effectively, ensuring all necessary arrangements are in place.
- Lead meetings in a professional and productive manner, guiding discussions and managing time effectively.
- Take decisions and process actions arising from meetings, ensuring clear documentation and follow-up.
Maintaining construction health, safety and welfare systems in the workplaceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Establish a culture of health, safety, welfare and wellbeing in the workplace and identify and implement opportunities for improvements to promote a positive working environment.
- Ensure that an organisational system or procedure is implemented for the selection of personnel and those selected are competent for the role, meeting required standards.
- Implement systems which meet organisational and statutory requirements for identifying hazards, reporting accidents and emergencies and preventing reoccurrence, ensuring a safe workplace.
- Check health, safety and welfare systems regularly, in accordance with organisational and statutory requirements to identify and record any special workplace conditions and situations which do not comply and take appropriate action to rectify them.
- Make recommendations for improving the work environment clearly and promptly to the appropriate people, ensuring timely action and resolution.
- Identify hazards and assess risks in the workplace arising from construction work products, processes and equipment, ensuring a proactive approach to safety management.
- Identify and implement methods and procedures to reduce risk, minimising potential harm and promoting a safe working environment.
Managing the performance of teams and individuals in the workplaceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Allocate work to teams and individuals effectively, considering their skills and experience.
- Agree work plans with teams and individuals, ensuring clear objectives and timelines are established.
- Assess the performance of teams and individuals and provide constructive feedback to support their development and improve overall performance.
Managing your own personal development in the workplaceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Manage your aims and objectives for undertaking personal development
- Understand how to manage your aims and objectives for undertaking personal development
Obtaining tenders and appointing contractors in the workplaceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Shortlist tenderers according to pre-determined criteria
- Select appropriate documents for the tendering process
- Obtain tenders from shortlisted tenderers
- Evaluate tenders against specified requirements and appoint suitable contractors
Optimising contract progress and controlling costs in the workplaceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Optimise contract progress to ensure timely completion
- Control contract costs to stay within budget
- Monitor contract progress against agreed milestones
- Manage contract costs effectively throughout the project lifecycle
Planning surveys in the workplaceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify investigation requirements for planned surveys
- Identify survey requirements for planned surveys
- Select appropriate survey processes and operations
- Investigate and evaluate specific project factors relevant to planned surveys
Preparing and agreeing contract accounts and interim valuations, entitlements and final accounts in the workplaceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare and agree interim valuations and final accounts
- Process entitlements for reimbursement for loss and expense
Specifying production document requirements and ensuring the control and maintenance of project information in the workplaceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Specify production document requirements, ensuring clarity and compliance with standards
- Monitor and control the preparation of prescriptive specifications to maintain quality and accuracy
- Control and maintain project information, ensuring accessibility and security
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 6 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.
Meet all twelve tutorsWhere this connects
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.
- Build teams and allocate work to team members
- Capture project requirements
- Coordinate project designs
- Develop a procurement plan and optimise supplier and service provider performance
- Develop a programme of works and a procurement programme
- Develop, implement and monitor plans for ethical employment and working practices with suppliers
- Establish the condition of property
- Evaluate work methods and develop a programme of works
Where this can lead
Senior Document Controller
Your journey as a Senior Document Controller is just one step on a path that can lead to truly impactful leadership roles in how organisations manage their most valuable asset: knowledge. It's a career with real purpose and plenty of room to grow.
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
This unit equips learners to control contract work by monitoring adherence to agreed quality standards and guidance, identifying deviations, taking corrective action, and maintaining contract and statutory compliance throughout the contract duration.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Pearson Edexcel Level 6 NVQ Diploma in Construction Contracting Operations Management
19 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- Controlling contract work in the workplace
- Coordinating project designs in the workplace
- Developing a procurement plan and optimising supplier and service provider performance in the workplace
- Developing a programme of works and a procurement programme in the workplace
- Developing and maintaining working relationships in the workplace
- Establishing the condition of property in the workplace
and 13 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.
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.