ECITB
Level 6
QN: 603/7872/4
Curriculum Active
ECITB Level 6 Diploma in Advanced Project Controls Practice and Techniques (RQF)
Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by ECITB. Classified as a Occupational Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 1145 hours.
Qualification Level
Level 6
Awarding Body
ECITB
Syllabus Units
14 Units
Guided Hours
1145 hrs
Instant access to interactive lessons, quizzes, and spaced revision.
Course Syllabus & Study Modules
Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.
1
Applying change control processes and management
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Apply change control processes to support project control delivery, taking into account the appropriate commercial arrangements, and justify actions taken
- Implement planned and unplanned project controls-related changes to meet project and organisational requirements in a controlled and coordinated manner appropriate to the change scale
2
Applying cost engineering practice to set budgets and cost baselines
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Set a budget and cost baseline that meet the requirements of an agreed project scope
- Develop a risk and contingency budget and drawdown plan
- Provide confidence in budget and cost baseline information and related recommendations
- Demonstrate insight into the other project control functions and how cost engineering should interact to meet requirements
3
Applying data-centric execution and analytics
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Critique a data system used within a project control environment and recommend how it may be improved to achieve better control-related outcomes
- Critique breakdown structures and coding structures and recommend how they may be improved to achieve better control-related outcomes
4
Applying estimating practice to meet requirements
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Develop estimates (time and cost) that meet the requirements of the project
- Determine the accuracy of estimates (time and cost) and estimating information by using estimating assurance techniques
- Provide confidence in estimating information and related recommendations by providing and justifying associated estimating narratives and frameworks
- Demonstrate insight into the other project control functions and how estimating should interact to meet requirements
5
Applying integrated project controls practice
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Develop a time and cost estimate that meets requirements of a project
- Develop a project plan and schedule that meet requirements of a project
- Establish a budget and cost baseline that meets requirements of a project
- Provide confidence in project controls information by using assurance techniques and justifying associated narrative
- Demonstrate insight into the project control functions and how all functions should interact to meet requirements
6
Applying optimisation and performance improvement
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Plan and carry out optimisation and performance improvement
7
Applying planning and scheduling practice to meet requirements
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Develop a project plan that meets requirements of the project
- Develop a schedule that reflects the project plan by integrating required events, activities and resources with credible logic flow, sequences and durations
- Provide confidence in scheduling information and related recommendations using scheduling assurance techniques and scheduling narratives
- Demonstrate insight into the other project control functions and how planning and scheduling should interact to meet requirements
8
Communicating to advise and influence project decisions
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Build a co-operative net
- work of stakeholders to support delivery of project controls outcomes
- Collaborate and interact with stakeholders in order to deliver project controls outcomes and build co-operative relationships, including adapting stakeholder interaction in different and evolving circumstances
9
Controlling uncertainties with project risk and assumption management
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- analyse and evaluate relevant risks and assumptions to determine the potential impact on project control-related activities
- Recommend project controls-related mitigation and control measures to ensure relevant risks and assumptions are built into project controls activities
10
Defining requirements and preparing a project controls plan
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Prepare a project controls plan that meets the requirements of a project specification
- Recommend project controls requirements to meet the needs of the project
11
Developing own professional competence
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- maintain and review a personal professional development plan
- Critique how project controls activities can be applied to support governance requirements
- Make recommendations based on current good practice to support continuous improvement and lessons learned for project controls practice within your own organisation
- Critique the approach taken to digital engineering and data analytics to underpin project controls delivery within your own organisation and recommend and justify improvements to achieve better control outcomes now and potentially in the future
- Recommend project controls activities that could be implemented to support the drive towards net zero carbon/environmental sustainability
- Produce and present a summary report of all recommendations made within unit APC01
12
Forecasting to influence future conditions
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Forecast future project conditions and make recommendations
- Produce what-if forecasts for different scenarios and recommend courses of action based on these
- Prepare forecasting data and information for stakeholder communication
13
Managing commercial and contractual arrangements
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Prepare project controls content for use in contracts, bid and tender management and procurement
- Critique bid, tender, contractual and procurement information from a project controls perspective, and make recommendations
- Support claim management and dispute resolution from a project controls perspective (including change management)
14
Monitoring and controlling progress and performance
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Track and monitor the progress and performance of project elements
- Analyse data to uncover patterns and trends, including making comparisons between planned and actual progress and performance
- Interpret and evaluate patterns and trends in datasets to provide insights into progress and performance
- Make recommendations, as appropriate, for maintaining progress and performance or for project recovery
Regulatory & Verification Details
- Qualification Number (QN)
- 603/7872/4
- Regulated Status
- Available to learners
- Awarding Body
- ECITB
- Qualification Type
- Occupational Qualification
- Operational Start
- Sept 2021