Highfield Qualifications · RQF Level 6

Highfield Level 6 NVQ Diploma in Construction Site Management (Building and Civil Engineering)

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  • LevelRQF Level 6
  • Total credits221
  • Guided learning657 hours
  • Units in this qualification31

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These are the units Highfield Qualifications 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.

Allocating work and monitoring people's performance in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
It teaches you to allocate work and monitor performance effectively. You'll confirm programmes and priorities, allocate tasks based on team members' skills, verify documentation, and brief teams on quality standards and health and safety requirements.

What you'll be able to do

  • Confirm the programmes, and schedules, identify priorities and critical activities, and plan how the work will be undertaken.
  • Allocate work to team members, taking into account their skills, knowledge and experience.
  • Check the validity of team member’s documentation.
  • Brief team members on the quality standards and outcomes expected.
  • Monitor both the progress and quality of the work.
  • Provide prompt and constructive feedback.
  • Motivate team members to complete the work they have been allocated and provide additional support.
  • Identify unacceptable or poor performance, discuss the cause(s) and agree ways of improving performance with team members.
  • Recognise exceptional performance by individuals and/or by the team and advise stakeholders.
Contributing to the identification of a work team in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
You'll contribute to identifying work teams in the workplace. The unit covers recognising factors affecting team composition, evaluating the quality and reliability of people and services, and negotiating proposals to establish effective team membership.

What you'll be able to do

  • Identify any significant factors which will affect the number, type and availability of people and services required for the work team.
  • Evaluate the quality and reliability of people or services being considered for the work team.
  • Record the evaluation of the quality and reliability of people or services, and notify relevant stakeholders.
  • Negotiate and agree proposals which are likely to produce an effective team membership.
  • Follow rules and organisational procedures for obtaining people and services for the work team.
Controlling Project Progress Against Agreed Programmes in the WorkplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
You'll learn to control project progress against agreed programmes. The unit includes developing monitoring systems, collecting and summarising progress data, identifying resource issues, recommending alternatives, and informing stakeholders of deviations.

What you'll be able to do

  • Develop and implement systems to monitor and record the progress of the project against the agreed programme(s).
  • Collect progress information regularly and summarise it for stakeholders.
  • Identify inadequate or inappropriate resources, recommend alternative resources and inform stakeholders.
  • Identify and quantify any identified or predicted deviations from planned progress which have occurred, or which may occur, that could disrupt the programme.
  • Investigate the circumstances of any deviations thoroughly and agree and implement appropriate corrective actions.
  • Recommend options to stakeholders that allow the programme to be maintained.
  • Inform stakeholders about changes to the operational programme.
  • Suggest and implement the decisions and actions that need to be taken to maintain progress.
  • Identify and record improvements to the programme from feedback received and inform stakeholders.
Controlling Project Progress Against Agreed Quality Standards in the WorkplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
This unit covers controlling project progress against agreed quality standards by identifying and interpreting standards and allocating responsibilities. You'll establish inspection systems, monitor quality, and address non-conforming work to maintain project quality requirements.

What you'll be able to do

  • Identify and interpret quality standards from available information and ensure their implementation before work commences.
  • Specify clearly and unambiguously the roles and responsibilities and allocate them to individuals to maintain quality standards.
  • Establish systems to inspect and control the quality of the work.
  • Regularly check that inspections are carried out to ensure that the work conforms to the specified quality standards.
  • Identify and record any work which fails to meet the requirements and specified quality standards and implement corrective action.
  • Inform stakeholders about variations in quality standards and recommend solutions and actions they need to take.
  • Identify conflicts between quality standards and refer them to stakeholders for resolution.
  • Identify improvements from feedback received and record and recommend them to stakeholders.
Controlling Project Quantities and Costs in the WorkplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
It teaches you to control project quantities and costs. You'll implement control systems, collect and record data, communicate information to stakeholders, prepare work values, and manage variations to support project decision-making.

What you'll be able to do

  • Implement quantities and cost control systems which can provide early warning of problems
  • Ensure that quantity and cost data is regularly collected, recorded and passed on to the responsible stakeholders, in time for them to be able to use it
  • Ensure that work values, quantities and cost data are prepared
  • Ensure that accurate quantities and cost data are prepared and presented in a format which will help the stakeholders responsible to make decisions
  • Ensure that variations and trends in quantities and cost data are identified, specified, quantified, costed and recorded
  • Ensure that any variations are investigated, agreed and recorded
  • Identify opportunities for cost efficiencies and recommend them to stakeholders
Developing and maintaining good occupational working relationships in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
You'll develop and maintain positive occupational working relationships by fostering goodwill and trust. The unit covers effective communication about work activities, offering advice and support, clarifying proposals, and resolving differences to promote collabourative working environments.

What you'll be able to do

  • Develop, maintain and encourage working relationships to promote good will and trust
  • Inform relevant people about work activities in an appropriate level of detail, with the appropriate level of urgency
  • Offer advice and help to relevant people about work activities and encourage questions/requests for clarification and comments
  • Clarify proposals with relevant people and discuss alternative suggestions
  • Resolve differences of opinion in ways that minimise offence and maintain goodwill, trust and respect
Enabling learning opportunities in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
This unit focuses on enabling learning opportunities within the workplace. You'll promote the benefits of learning, provide constructive feedback, identify and prioritise learning needs, and support team members in planning and undertaking development activities.

What you'll be able to do

  • Promote the benefits of accessing learning by giving positive and constructive feedback on work performance regularly
  • Work with the team to identify and prioritise learning needs and identify and obtain information on a range of possible learning activities
  • Discuss and plan development needs with team members
  • Support team members in undertaking learning activities by making efforts to overcome barriers to learning
  • Communicate the outcomes of the learning activity undertaken with team members to ensure the desired outcomes have been achieved and organisational standards have been maintained
  • Update development plans with team members and ensure records of plan are kept updated
Ensuring that Work Activities and Resources Meet Project Work Requirements in the WorkplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
You'll identify major project activities and resource requirements, preparing draft work programmes and schedules. The unit covers evaluating alternative methods and resources to select optimal solutions that meet project needs, ensuring effective allocation and clarification where necessary.

What you'll be able to do

  • Identify major activities required for the project, based on available information.
  • Determine the resources needed for each activity, based on available information.
  • Prepare draft work programmes and schedules, outlining the planned activities and resource allocation.
  • Evaluate alternative methods, resources, and systems to select the best solution to meet project requirements effectively.
  • Obtain clarification and advice where the resources needed are not readily available or understood.
  • Analyse the activities against project requirements and the requirements of external factors, such as regulations and environmental considerations.
  • Determine how long each activity will take to complete.
  • Identify activities which influence each other and sequence them logically and realistically to optimise resource utilisation.
  • Ensure the production of detailed programmes and schedules of planned activities are consistent with the complexity of the project.
  • Develop a system to monitor the works programmes and schedules and use the results to improve production and planning processes.
  • Identify alterations to the works programmes and schedules to ensure they will meet changed circumstances and project goals.
Establishing Dimensional Control Criteria in the WorkplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
This unit covers the establishment of dimensional control criteria in the workplace. You'll gain skills to obtain and record accurate pre-construction information, identify and manage variations in dimensional control, and ensure effective communication with stakeholders.

What you'll be able to do

  • Obtain pre-construction information in relation to dimensional control, ensuring that it is up to date and accurate.
  • Establish and record the relevant dimensional control information for the projects, including tolerances and reference points.
  • Ensure that variations in dimensional control are identified, recorded, and notified to relevant stakeholders promptly.
  • Ensure a dimensional control monitoring system is in place, which ensures dimensional controls are maintained throughout the project.
  • Ensure that measuring and recording equipment is maintained to meet the specified accuracy criteria and is calibrated regularly.
Establishing, Controlling and Monitoring Environmental Factors and Sustainability in the WorkplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
This unit covers establishing, controlling, and monitoring environmental factors and sustainability. You'll identify environmental considerations, establish sustainable work methods, promote environmental awareness, and examine relevant policies and procedures.

What you'll be able to do

  • Identify the environmental management considerations.
  • Establish methods of work that will support sustainability by examining project data.
  • Promote a culture of environmental awareness and support for sustainability in the workforce.
  • Examine and record the policies adopted for environmental management and sustainability.
  • Delegate and record assigned duties for environmental management and monitoring of sustainable work methods.
  • Assess the significance of environmental factors as they affect the project and take appropriate action.
  • Monitor project work against sustainability requirements and take appropriate action to ensure progress.
  • Record good practice in environmental management and sustainable methods of work and make recommendations to people responsible.
Establishing, Implementing and Maintaining Organisational Systems for Managing Health, Safety, Welfare and Wellbeing in the WorkplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
You'll establish, implement, and maintain organisational systems for managing health, safety, welfare, and wellbeing. The unit emphasises fostering a positive safety culture, delegating responsibilities, conducting inductions, and ensuring compliance with organisational requirements.

What you'll be able to do

  • Establish a culture of health, safety, welfare and wellbeing on site, and identify and implement improvements.
  • Delegate health, safety, welfare and wellbeing responsibilities which comply with current organisational requirements and ensure site inductions consistently inform people of those responsibilities.
  • Ensure accurate and appropriate notices and hazard warnings, that conform to current organisational requirements, are maintained and observed.
  • Ensure health, safety and welfare equipment and resources are available and sufficient to meet current organisational requirements.
  • Implement systems which meet current organisational requirements to identify hazards, reduce risks and maintain the health, safety, welfare and wellbeing of people.
  • Ensure hazards are assessed to identify the residual risks, apply the principles of prevention and provide information to the appropriate people.
  • Monitor health, safety, welfare and wellbeing systems regularly for compliance with current organisational requirements.
Evaluating Feedback and Making Recommendations in the WorkplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
It teaches you to evaluate feedback by implementing collection systems and analysing data. You'll recommend justified improvements to stakeholders and promote the adoption of changes to enhance workplace practices and performance.

What you'll be able to do

  • Implement systems for the collection of feedback in the workplace.
  • Ensure feedback is obtained, investigated, recorded, and analysed effectively.
  • Recommend improvements by evaluating feedback received and justify the recommendations to relevant stakeholders.
  • Summarise recommendations from feedback analysis and promote them for adoption and use within the organisation.
  • Evaluate feedback systems to ensure that recommendations have been implemented and are effective.
Evaluating and Confirming Work Methods in the WorkplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
You'll learn to evaluate and confirm work methods in the workplace. The unit covers analysing project data, obtaining additional information when necessary, and selecting work methods that optimise resource use and comply with project and organisational standards.

What you'll be able to do

  • Evaluate project or operational data in order to identify work methods
  • Obtain additional information from other sources in cases where the available project data is insufficient
  • Identify work methods which will make the best use of resources and materials and meets project and current organisational requirements
  • Evaluate identified work methods against technical, environmental and project criteria and select appropriate methods
  • Ensure method statements and risk assessments are current, accurate, agreed and acceptable to all stakeholders
  • Recommend and promote the selected work method for the project
Identifying and Maintaining Communication Systems and Organisational Procedures in the WorkplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
You'll identify and maintain communication systems and organisational procedures within projects. The unit includes establishing compatible systems with clients, supply chains, and stakeholders, ensuring accurate information production, and effective dissemination.

What you'll be able to do

  • Identify the organisational and communication needs for the project
  • Establish and maintain systems which are compatible with those used by the client, customer or their representative, the supply chain and other stakeholders
  • Ensure project information is produced, accurate and issued to relevant stakeholders
  • Implement inclusive methods of communication for reporting and retrieving information between the project team, organisations and stakeholders
  • Monitor communication systems and organisational procedures for effectiveness
  • Identify and investigate breakdowns, conflicts or opportunities for improvement and take action to restore effective communication and organisation
  • Implement and record any action taken to improve or restore effective communication systems and organisational procedures
  • Prepare for and manage meetings with colleagues and stakeholders
  • Ensure post meeting activities are carried out
Identifying, Allocating and Planning the Deployment and Use of Plant, Equipment or Machinery in the WorkplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
You'll learn to identify, allocate, and plan the deployment of plant, equipment, or machinery. The unit includes ensuring compliance with project specifications and legislation, confirming competence of operators, and implementing systems for deployment and maintenance.

What you'll be able to do

  • Ensure that the specification of the selected plant, equipment or machinery meets the needs of the project before deployment
  • Confirm that the plant, equipment or machinery to be deployed complies with current legislation and will be set up, operated and maintained by competent people
  • Implement a system to update the deployment and allocation of plant, equipment or machinery, and operators, as the project progresses, or changes occur
  • Identify hazards, assess and mitigate risks arising from the use of plant, equipment or machinery and implement measures that protect people and the environment
  • Ensure that plant, equipment or machinery operations are planned, appropriately supervised and conducted in accordance with current legislation
  • Ensure the suitable storage, servicing and maintenance of plant, equipment or machinery has been arranged to meet organisational requirements
  • Identify and record the competency requirements for supervisors, operators and users of plant, equipment or machinery
  • Promote and record opportunities to suggest improvements in plant operations
  • Ensure that plant, equipment or machinery which is no longer needed is returned or removed and records are maintained
Managing Installation, Commissioning and Handover of Retrofit Works in the WorkplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
You'll manage the installation, commissioning, and handover of retrofit works by applying organisational procedures to protect all stakeholders and the environment. The unit covers implementing retrofit plans, monitoring progress against programmes, and ensuring efficient and safe working practices.

What you'll be able to do

  • Observe and apply organisational requirements for the protection of the workforce, sub-contractors, suppliers, consultants, occupants, visitors, the general public, and the environment during retrofit works.
  • Manage the implementation of the retrofit plan, ensuring effective and efficient working practices for a given occupational area.
  • Review and record works progress against the project programme to track performance and identify potential delays.
  • Recognise and report defects in installation promptly and accurately.
  • Record and report that ventilation is not compromised and complies with all relevant standards and regulations.
  • Check and record that the retrofit works conform to quality standards and are in compliance with the retrofit design specifications.
  • Recommend, record, and implement corrective actions when required to address identified issues or deviations from the plan.
  • Manage the scheduling and coordination of inspection, testing, and commissioning activities for retrofit works.
  • Recommend, record, and implement any required corrective actions identified during inspection, testing, and commissioning of retrofit works.
  • Manage the project handover process on completion of retrofit works, ensuring all documentation and requirements are met.
Managing the Installation, Maintenance, Monitoring and Removal of Temporary Works in the WorkplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
You'll manage the installation, maintenance, monitoring, and removal of temporary works. The unit includes interpreting relevant information, ensuring safety compliance with legislation and guidance, and managing resources effectively throughout the temporary works lifecycle.

What you'll be able to do

  • Interpret and confirm the relevance of information when supervising the installation, maintenance and removal of temporary works.
  • Ensure protection and safety of the workforce, the general public, visitors and the environment by observing current legislation and official guidance.
  • Identify, assess and maintain resources for temporary works.
  • Confirm that all materials, equipment and tooling is correct prior to installation.
  • Manage the installation of temporary works in accordance with the programme of works to meet organisational and stakeholder procedures.
  • Keep accurate records of work progress during the installation of temporary works and maintain safe working methods and practices.
  • Handover the temporary works in accordance with the organisational procedures.
  • Manage the removal of the temporary works in accordance with the programme of works.
Managing the Project Handover in the WorkplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
You'll gain knowledge to manage project handover effectively. The unit covers confirming project requirements, consulting stakeholders, developing handover programmes, conducting inspections and tests, and ensuring satisfactory completion and documentation.

What you'll be able to do

  • Confirm project requirements, consult with stakeholders and develop, agree and record a handover programme
  • Check that project requirements have been met, or record outstanding work, in order to agree, arrange and record a satisfactory completion
  • Carry out handover inspections, relevant tests and commissioning activities ensuring they are recorded and certificated
  • Record stakeholder concerns during inspection, agree and record any required actions
  • Ensure the stakeholders’ respective responsibilities are recorded, accepted and adopted on handover
  • Assemble, record and hand over relevant documentation in accordance with the project
Managing your personal development in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
It teaches you to manage their personal development by defining aims and objectives, identifying support sources, and recognising relevant standards. You'll analyse their knowledge and performance, develop competence profiles, and create personal development plans.

What you'll be able to do

  • Define your aims and objectives for undertaking personal development
  • Contact sources of support and guidance to identify recognised standards for you to manage your personal development
  • Analyse the current level of your knowledge and performance
  • Develop a profile of your competence and personal development needs
  • Prepare a development plan for achieving identified development needs
  • Undertake development activities aimed at achieving identified development needs
  • Review the effectiveness of the development activities undertaken
  • Obtain, accept and record feedback from people who can judge your performance
  • Review the cycle of personal development aims and objectives to revise and update aims and objectives to suit changing circumstances
Monitoring Project Activities in the WorkplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
You'll learn to monitor project activities effectively. The unit includes providing advance notice to stakeholders, communicating work programmes and methods, identifying information requirements, organising sub-contractor attendance, and maintaining coordination.

What you'll be able to do

  • Give adequate notice to all stakeholders who will be affected about when work will start, how long it will take and when it will finish.
  • Communicate and agree a programme and method with people who will be doing the work that integrates operation.
  • Identify, record and obtain information requirements before work starts.
  • Organise attendance for sub-contractors in accordance with project and contractual agreements.
  • Organise meetings and communications with sub-contractors and keep records.
  • Plan and obtain sufficient resources of the appropriate type which will meet the project requirements and timescales.
  • Organise and control the site and resources so that conditions are safe, the site is tidy, and a record of maintenance activities is maintained.
  • Develop contingency plans to meet special requirements to minimise disruption to those likely to be affected by the works programme.
  • Maintain records to show how disruption has been minimised for special requirements and contingencies.
Organising, Controlling and Monitoring Supplies of Materials in the WorkplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
You'll develop the ability to organise, control, and monitor material supplies in the workplace. The unit includes analysing project requirements, developing delivery schedules, maintaining records, and identifying alternative supply options to meet organisational needs.

What you'll be able to do

  • Analyse project requirements in line with operational plans to ensure quantities and supplies of materials meet organisational requirements and develop a delivery schedule.
  • Ensure records of delivery schedule and traffic management are maintained through analysis of delivery and lead times.
  • Identify and record alternatives to the supply of materials to mitigate potential disruptions.
  • Ensure orders are prepared in line with organisational and/or project requirements to meet the delivery schedule effectively.
  • Promote goodwill and trust with suppliers and users to ensure the delivery schedule is maintained through positive negotiation and communication.
  • Implement systems for monitoring the delivery schedule, materials, and supplier performance to ensure they meet the project specification and quality standards.
  • Analyse records of factors used in materials control to identify trends and areas for improvement.
  • Identify problems with supply, record them accurately, and take appropriate action to resolve them promptly.
  • Identify and record revisions to the delivery schedule to facilitate change or minimise disruption to the programme effectively.
Planning Tunnelling Activities in the WorkplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
It teaches you to plan tunnelling activities. You'll determine and record activities, identify and assess influencing factors, review guidance materials, prioritise tasks, and amend plans in consultation with stakeholders.

What you'll be able to do

  • Determine and record the tunnelling activities against the information supplied.
  • Identify and review influencing factors relating to the work environment.
  • Prioritise activities by assessing and accounting for all the influencing factors.
  • Identify and review guidance materials.
  • Amend priorities to take account of changing circumstances whilst maintaining consistency with the influencing factors.
  • Prepare plans and programmes then negotiate, agree and record them with stakeholders.
Planning activities to traditional and heritage buildings and structures in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
This unit equips learners to plan activities for traditional and heritage buildings and structures. You'll confirm project requirements, use information from diverse sources, assess heritage impacts, and record information from relevant guidance materials.

What you'll be able to do

  • Confirm the project requirements against the information supplied when planning activities for traditional and heritage buildings.
  • Explain why information from a range of sources must be used when planning activities to traditional and heritage building project requirements.
  • Review the impacts of heritage issues on the planning of work activities.
  • Review and record information sourced from guidance materials relevant to planning activities on traditional and heritage buildings.
  • Prioritise activities by assessing and accounting for a range of heritage issues.
  • Review priorities; make recommendations and record the decisions made when circumstances change.
  • Prepare plans or programmes and negotiate and agree them with stakeholders.
Planning and Scheduling the Maintenance Activities of Property, Services or Systems in the WorkplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
It teaches you to plan and schedule maintenance activities for property, services, or systems. You'll implement inspections, identify influencing factors and guidance, prioritise maintenance tasks, and maintain accurate records of all activities.

What you'll be able to do

  • Implement and record regular inspections to confirm the project requirements for the maintenance activities for property, services or systems
  • Identify, review and record influencing factors and guidance material about property, service or systems to be maintained
  • Prioritise and record the maintenance activities to take account of identified influencing factors whilst maintaining consistency
  • Identify and record changing circumstances
  • Ensure maintenance activity records of actions carried out and date collected are current
  • Identify, assess and obtain the necessary resources for maintenance activities
  • Prepare plans and schedules of maintenance activities and negotiate and agree them with stakeholders
Planning demolition activities in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
It teaches you to plan demolition activities by confirming work requirements and reviewing influencing factors and guidance materials. You'll prioritise tasks, amend plans as necessary, and record information to ensure safe and efficient demolition operations.

What you'll be able to do

  • Confirm the work requirements when planning demolition activities against the information supplied
  • Identify, review and record influencing factors and guidance materials in relation to the work environment
  • Prioritise demolition activities by assessing, recording and accounting for all the influencing factors
  • Amend priorities to take account of changing circumstances whilst maintaining consistency with the influencing factors
  • Prepare plans or schedules and negotiate and agree them with decision makers
Planning highways maintenance and repair activities in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
You'll learn to plan highway maintenance and repair activities on controlled roads. The unit covers confirming work requirements, identifying influencing factors, consulting guidance materials, prioritising activities, and recording plans accordingly.

What you'll be able to do

  • Confirm and record the work requirements of planning highway maintenance activities on controlled roads.
  • Identify and review influencing factors about the work environment that may affect highway maintenance activities.
  • Consult with guidance materials relevant to planning highway maintenance activities.
  • Prioritise and record the maintenance activities by assessing and accounting for all the influencing factors.
  • Amend priorities to take account of changing circumstances whilst maintaining consistency with overall objectives.
  • Prepare plans or schedules of maintenance activities and negotiate and agree them with decision makers.
  • Prepare risk assessments and method statements for highway maintenance activities.
  • Prepare plans and schedules for highway maintenance activities.
Planning the Installation of Retrofit Works in the WorkplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
This unit equips learners to plan the installation of retrofit works. You'll evaluate and implement pre-installation checks, conduct building inspections, record findings, and apply control measures to mitigate technical and procedural risks.

What you'll be able to do

  • Evaluate and implement pre-installation checks to identify technical and procedural risks
  • Implement external and internal pre-installation building inspection and record and report the findings to stakeholders
  • Implement and record suitable and sufficient control measures to mitigate risks arising from external and internal pre-installation building inspections
  • Implement and record suitable and sufficient control measures to mitigate technical and procedural risks
  • Identify, review and confirm information sources against the retrofit works plans
  • Record and report issues with the planned retrofit works and recommend corrective actions
  • Contribute to the project programme and plan the sequence of works for the installation of retrofit works
  • Plan the efficient use of resources required for retrofit works
Planning the Preparation of the Site for the Project in the WorkplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
This unit covers the planning and preparation of a site for project work. You'll assemble, review, and clarify project information, identify and record factors affecting the site, plan traffic management, and organise resources to support site operations effectively.

What you'll be able to do

  • Assemble and review information used in the preparation of the project plan, clarify information which is not clear and update it for production planning purposes
  • Identify factors for consideration, record them and distribute them to people who may be affected
  • Plan for traffic management, identifying access and egress points for the site and works which are safe, convenient and which minimise disruption
  • Organise the resources required for the preparation of site operations
  • Give accurate details about the proposed work to the utility and emergency services
  • Make arrangements for adequate site safety and welfare, reviewing as work progresses
  • Implement procedures and arrangements for environmental protection and security
  • Implement and record the procedures and arrangements for temporary works
  • Plan the site or area layout for operational purposes and pass information about the plans to the people on the site
  • Ensure notices to people, which provide information and comply with current organisational requirements
  • Ensure the notices are placed correctly and implement a maintenance schedule
Providing customer services in the construction workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
This unit provides learners with knowledge to deliver customer services in construction. You'll implement organisational procedures, provide consistent and reliable service, resolve customer issues, and communicate effectively with customers and colleagues.

What you'll be able to do

  • Identify and use organisational procedures to implement systems or processes that will deliver and improve customer service
  • Give a consistent and reliable service that promotes a customer’s confidence
  • Work with others to resolve customer services problems and communicate with customers
  • Communicate with customers to provide information, check and record their satisfaction
  • Solve problems within existing systems or procedures that may affect customers before the customer becomes aware of them
  • Confirm that the service given meets the customer’s needs and expectations
  • Inform and record any changes to customer service systems or procedures to those people responsible
  • Share information to maintain and improve standards of service delivery
Supervising activities to traditional and heritage buildings and structures in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
This unit equips learners to supervise activities on traditional and heritage buildings by minimising disruption and maintaining performance. You'll ensure workforce protection, verify documentation, identify defects, and implement corrective actions in compliance with organisational requirements.

What you'll be able to do

  • Carry out supervision activities which will minimise disruption and maintain optimum performance.
  • Observe organisational requirements appropriate to the protection of the workforce.
  • Check the validity of team members’ documentation.
  • Identify and assess defects, faults and issues, recommend and implement corrective action which conforms to safe working methods and practices.
  • Keep accurate records of work progress checks, defects, problems, corrective action and quantities involved.
  • Identify, assess and record the necessary resources for work activities for traditional and heritage buildings and structures.
Supervising tunnelling activities in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
You'll learn to supervise tunnelling activities by providing input into plans that minimise disruption and maintain performance. The unit covers adherence to legislation and guidance, identifying defects, implementing corrective actions, and promoting safety in tunnelling environments.

What you'll be able to do

  • Supervise tunnelling activities and provide input into the programmes, plans or schedules which will minimise disruption and maintain optimum performance
  • Observe current legislation, regulations and official guidance appropriate to the work environment for protection and safety of everyone
  • Identify and assess common tunnelling defects and problems and recommend and implement corrective action which conforms to safe working methods and practices
  • Keep accurate records of work progress checks and quantities involved
  • Identify, assess and record the acquisition and maintenance for the necessary resources for tunnelling activities
  • Comply with the given contract information when supervising tunnelling activities to carry out the work efficiently to the required specification

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Highfield Level 6 NVQ Diploma in Construction Site Management (Building and Civil Engineering)
  • Co-ordinate and Manage Temporary Workers
  • Develop your knowledge, skills and competence to meet the requirements of your work
  • Manage installation, commissioning and handover of retrofit works
  • Manage the installation, maintenance, monitoring and removal of temporary works
  • Manage the personal development of yourself and others within design service organisations
  • Plan and Monitor Maintenance Programmes
  • Plan the installation of retrofit works
  • Plan, schedule and manage maintenance of buildings and equipment
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Maintenance Coordinator

Your journey starts here, learning the nuts and bolts of how we keep our properties in top shape. We're investing in you for the long term, and there are plenty of avenues to explore as you grow with us. It won't always be easy, but it will certainly be rewarding.

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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.

Co-ordinate and Manage Temporary WorkersDevelop your knowledge, skills and competence to meet the requirements of your workManage installation, commissioning and handover of retrofit worksManage the installation, maintenance, monitoring and removal of temporary worksManage the personal development of yourself and others within design service organisationsPlan and Monitor Maintenance ProgrammesPlan the installation of retrofit worksPlan, schedule and manage maintenance of buildings and equipmentSupervise activities to traditional and heritage buildings and structures

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.

One-to-one, on your real workNo lectures, no past-papers. Every unit is practised on the actual tasks your job throws at you, a tutor beside you, not a video in front of you.
Taught to the top, not the testMost courses stop at remembering. Your companion keeps climbing: analysing, judging, creating. That’s the part a machine can’t do for you.
Credits you keep, a map that continuesEvery unit is regulated and yours for good. The day you finish, Zavmo already knows the next role your new credits open.
Allocating work and monitoring people's performance in the workplaceLevel 6

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

This unit enables learners to allocate work and monitor performance effectively. Learners will confirm programmes and priorities, allocate tasks based on team members' skills, verify documentation, and brief teams on quality standards and health and safety requirements.

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.
Your PlanIllustration

Built for Highfield Level 6 NVQ Diploma in Construction Site Management (Building and Civil Engineering)

31 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Highfield Qualifications.

  1. Allocating work and monitoring people's performance in the workplace
  2. Contributing to the identification of a work team in the workplace
  3. Controlling Project Progress Against Agreed Programmes in the Workplace
  4. Controlling Project Progress Against Agreed Quality Standards in the Workplace
  5. Controlling Project Quantities and Costs in the Workplace
  6. Developing and maintaining good occupational working relationships in the workplace

and 25 more in the full unit list below.

These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

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.

  1. Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.

  1. 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
  2. 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
  3. 4AnalyseThe Analyst
  4. 3ApplyThe Coach
  5. 2UnderstandThe Connector
  6. 1RememberThe Builder

Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you

Why this matters: AI can already remember and understand for you. What it can’t do is take your real problem and judge the right call. So the only learning worth paying for is the learning that takes you to the top. That’s exactly what a tutor doing it with you, on your real work, is for.

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, free

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