Highfield Qualifications · RQF Level 6
Highfield Level 6 NVQ Diploma in Construction Contracting Operations Management (RQF)
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 Highfield Qualifications · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
We offer a wide range of Construction certificates and diplomas. These include level 2, 3, 4 and 7 qualifications.
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.
Controlling contract work in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Control contract work against agreed contract quality standards
- Control contract work against agreed contract guidance
- Maintain contract compliance with relevant regulations
- Maintain statutory compliance with relevant regulations
Coordinating project designs in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and coordinate the methods for preparing initial designs
- Select materials, components and systems
- Analyse, select and present detailed design solutions
Developing a procurement plan and optimising supplier and service provider performance in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse supply requirements
- Develop a procurement plan
- Monitor a procurement plan
- Optimise supplier performance
- Optimise service provider performance
Developing a programme of works and a procurement programme in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Develop a comprehensive programme of works, taking into account project objectives, constraints, and resources
- Develop a detailed procurement programme that aligns with the programme of works, ensuring timely acquisition of necessary materials and services
Developing and maintaining working relationships in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues, clients, and other stakeholders, fostering collaboration and mutual respect
- Practice in an ethical manner, adhering to professional codes of conduct and promoting integrity in all aspects of work
Establishing the condition of property in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Recommend and agree on a suitable condition survey process, considering the type of property and the objectives of the survey
- Survey property thoroughly to assess its condition, identifying defects, deterioration, and potential risks
- Prepare and present clear and concise condition survey reports and records, including photographs, diagrams, and recommendations for remedial action
Evaluating enquiries and submitting tenders in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate tender enquiry documentation to determine project requirements, risks, and opportunities
- Finalise the tender, ensuring all aspects of the project are accurately costed and documented
- Submit a tender that is compliant with the client's requirements and represents the organisation's best offer
Evaluating work methods and developing a programme of works in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate work methods for suitability
- Select appropriate work methods
- Develop a programme of works
Identifying, assessing and evaluating project requirements in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Identify, assess, and agree on project requirements and stakeholder preferences, ensuring alignment with project goals and objectives
- Identify, assess, and evaluate resource procurement factors, including availability, cost, and lead times, to ensure efficient project delivery
Implementing strategic and integrated supply chain management and sourcing partnerships in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate the benefits of strategic sourcing
- Evaluate the risks of strategic sourcing
- Agree the benefits and risks of strategic sourcing with relevant parties
- Agree alignment of systems with relevant parties
- Implement alignment of systems
- Monitor supply chain arrangements
- Control supply chain arrangements
Leading meetings and taking decisions in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Organise and prepare meetings, including setting agendas, inviting participants, and distributing relevant materials
- Lead meetings effectively, facilitating discussion, managing time, and ensuring that objectives are met
- Take decisions based on available information and relevant factors, considering the potential impact on stakeholders
- Process actions arising from meetings, assigning responsibilities and monitoring progress
Maintaining construction health, safety and welfare systems in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Establish a culture of health, safety, welfare and wellbeing in the workplace
- Identify opportunities for improvements to health, safety, welfare and wellbeing in the workplace and implement them
- Ensure that an organisational system or procedure is implemented for the selection of personnel
- Ensure that personnel selected are competent for the role
- Implement systems which meet organisational and statutory requirements for identifying hazards
- Implement systems which meet organisational and statutory requirements for reporting accidents and emergencies
- Implement systems which meet organisational and statutory requirements for preventing reoccurrence of accidents and emergencies
- Check health, safety and welfare systems regularly, in accordance with organisational and statutory requirements
- Identify and record any special workplace conditions and situations which do not comply with health, safety and welfare systems
- Take appropriate action to address any workplace conditions and situations which do not comply with health, safety and welfare systems
- Comply with all organisational security arrangements and approved procedures
- Support all organisational security arrangements and approved procedures
- Identify hazards in the workplace arising from construction work products, processes and equipment
- Assess risks in the workplace arising from construction work products, processes and equipment
- Identify methods and procedures to reduce risk in the workplace
- Implement methods and procedures to reduce risk in the workplace
Managing the performance of teams and individuals in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Allocate work to teams and individuals based on their skills, experience, and workload
- Agree work plans with teams and individuals, setting clear objectives, timelines, and performance expectations
- Assess the performance of teams and individuals against agreed work plans and performance standards
- Provide constructive feedback to teams and individuals, recognising achievements and addressing areas for improvement
Managing your personal development in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
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
Obtaining tenders and appointing contractors in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Shortlist potential tenderers based on pre-defined criteria, such as experience, financial stability, and technical capabilities
- Select and prepare appropriate tender documents, including specifications, drawings, and contractual terms
- Obtain tenders from shortlisted contractors, ensuring a fair and transparent process
- Evaluate submitted tenders against established criteria and appoint the most suitable contractor based on value for money and project requirements
Optimising contract progress and controlling costs in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Optimise contract progress by implementing effective planning, monitoring, and control measures
- Control contract costs by managing resources efficiently, minimising waste, and mitigating risks
Planning surveys in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Identify investigation requirements for planning surveys in the workplace
- Identify survey requirements for planning surveys in the workplace
- Select appropriate survey processes and operations for the specific workplace context
- Investigate and evaluate specific project factors relevant to the planning of surveys
Preparing and agreeing interim valuations, entitlements and final accounts in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare interim valuations in accordance with organisational procedures and contractual requirements
- Agree interim valuations with relevant parties, addressing any queries or discrepancies
- Prepare final accounts, ensuring accuracy and compliance with relevant standards
- Agree final accounts with relevant parties, resolving any outstanding issues
- Process entitlements for reimbursement of loss and expense, adhering to contractual terms and organisational policies
Specifying production document requirements and ensuring the control and maintenance of project information in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Specify production document requirements for a construction project
- Monitor and control the preparation of prescriptive specifications in accordance with project requirements
- Control and maintain project information throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring accuracy and accessibility
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 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
Assessor
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.
- Control contract work
- Coordinate project designs
- Develop a procurement programme in a Building Information Modelling environment
- Develop a programme of works and a procurement programme
- Develop and maintain working relationships
- Develop your knowledge, skills and competence to meet the requirements of your work
- Establish the condition of property
- Implement strategic and integrated supply chain management and sourcing partnerships
Where this can lead
Global Construction Safety Specialist Manager
This role is a significant step on a rewarding career path. It offers the chance to make a profound impact on people's lives and shape the future of safety within a global organisation. If you're ready for a challenge that demands both strategic vision and hands-on leadership, we'd love to hear from you.
See the whole journey →Showing 5 roles, drawn from 7 job records mapped to this qualification.
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 control contract work by monitoring adherence to agreed quality standards and contract guidance. The unit includes maintaining statutory compliance and providing support to contractors to ensure contract requirements are met.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Highfield Level 6 NVQ Diploma in Construction Contracting Operations Management (RQF)
19 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Highfield Qualifications.
- 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.