How you’d get this certificate
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- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer Highfield Qualifications has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and Highfield Qualifications awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Highfield Qualifications.
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. 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 Highfield Qualifications. It does the teaching and the mapping. Highfield Qualifications 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
Controlling contract work in the workplace Real 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 workplace Real 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 workplace Real 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 workplace Real 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 workplace Real 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 workplace Real 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 workplace Real 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 workplace Real 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 workplace Real 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 workplace Real 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 workplace Real 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 workplace Real 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 workplace Real 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 workplace Real 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 workplace Real 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 workplace Real 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 workplace Real 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 workplace Real 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 workplace Real 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 national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
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Control contract work
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Coordinate project designs
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Develop a procurement programme in a Building Information Modelling environment
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Develop a programme of works and a procurement programme
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Develop and maintain working relationships
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Develop your knowledge, skills and competence to meet the requirements of your work
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Establish the condition of property
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Implement strategic and integrated supply chain management and sourcing partnerships
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Maintain construction health, safety and welfare systems
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Manage the performance of teams and individuals
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Obtain and assess tenders in built environment design
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Obtain tenders and appoint contractors
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Prepare and agree interim valuations, entitlements, and final accounts
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Prepare and issue valuations for work
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Specify production document requirements and ensure the control and maintenance of project information
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.
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Showing 3 roles, drawn from 5 job records mapped to this qualification. Near-identical records are folded together, and each row says how many it stands for.
Where this can lead
Global Construction Safety Specialist Manager
This work can lead to roles such as Chief Safety Officer or VP of Global EHS, or into wider operational leadership as a Chief Operating Officer.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 6 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Highfield Qualifications 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
Controlling contract work in the workplaceCoordinating project designs in the workplaceDeveloping a procurement plan and optimising supplier and service provider performance in the workplaceDeveloping a programme of works and a procurement programme in the workplaceDeveloping and maintaining working relationships in the workplaceEstablishing the condition of property in the workplaceEvaluating enquiries and submitting tenders in the workplaceEvaluating work methods and developing a programme of works in the workplace
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 Coach · your practice partner Illustration - Pitch it Evaluate
“Evaluating enquiries and submitting tenders in the workplace” gets practised as a pitch. You make the case out loud, Zavmo asks the question the room would ask, and you make it again.
- Bring your own plan Create
For “Coordinating project designs in the workplace” 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.
- Draft the real one Create
You do “Preparing and agreeing interim valuations, entitlements and final accounts in the workplace” on a real document of your own. Zavmo works on the draft you have to send anyway, so the coursework and the job are the same piece of work.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Evaluating work methods and developing a programme of works in the workplace” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
- 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
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 Controlling contract work in the workplace, one of this qualification's own units.
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.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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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.
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