A reference list of suggested Employability and Technical skills targets for the T Level in Building Services Engineering for Construction, broken down by occupational specialism, to help set learning goals for students on their industry placement.
Refrigeration Engineering and Air Conditioning Engineering
Employability Skills Targets:
- Planning: Identifying discrete steps, estimating time and resources, prioritising, sequencing activities.
- Investigating: Identifying sources, developing search queries/questions, interrogating data.
- Self-managing: Reflecting and inviting feedback on own performance, referring to others for advice.
- Assessing a situation for potential adverse effects.
- Working with others with different skills, expertise, and experience to accomplish a task or goal.
- Physical dexterity: Precise and controlled movement, agility, coordination, delicacy, appropriate application of force.
- Observing: Situational awareness, monitoring.
Technical Skills Targets:
- Updating records digitally.
- Understanding air conditioning science and systems.
- Measuring and marking out installation requirements.
- Cutting, placing, and fixing ductwork.
- Attaching components to each other in a system.
- Connecting control systems.
- Carrying out tests on systems.
- Working efficiently with minimum waste in time-bound challenging environments.
- Using software to record and analyse data.
- Understanding refrigeration system engineering.
- Carrying out systems tests.
- Adjusting the system.
- Replacing component equipment.
- Ensuring system components are fit for purpose.
- Completing maintenance records and reports.
Electrotechnical Engineering
Employability Skills Targets:
- Planning: Identifying discrete steps, estimating time and resources, prioritising, sequencing activities.
- Analysing: Identifying common features, classifying, ordering.
- Investigating: Identifying sources, developing search queries/questions, interrogating data.
- Self-managing: Reflecting and inviting feedback on own performance, referring to others for advice.
- Assessing a situation for potential adverse effects.
- Communicating: Active listening, engaging an audience, building rapport, adapting style and tone.
- Working with others with different skills, expertise, and experience to accomplish a task or goal.
- Physical dexterity: Precise and controlled movement, agility, coordination, delicacy, appropriate application of force.
- Observing: Situational awareness, monitoring.
Technical Skills Targets:
- Using software to record and analyse data.
- Communicating effectively with different audiences using different media.
- Updating records digitally.
- Understanding electrotechnical installations.
- Isolating electrical and mechanical supplies.
- Replacing component equipment.
- Repairing components.
- Diagnosing faults.
- Ensuring system components are fit for purpose.
- Testing the system.
- Completing maintenance records and reports.
Gas Engineering
Employability Skills Targets:
- Planning: Identifying discrete steps, estimating time and resources, prioritising, sequencing activities.
- Analysing: Identifying common features, classifying, ordering.
- Investigating: Identifying sources, developing search queries/questions, interrogating data.
- Self-managing: Reflecting and inviting feedback on own performance, managing time, setting personal goals, referring to others for advice.
- Assessing a situation for potential adverse effects.
- Communicating: Active listening, engaging an audience, adapting style and tone.
- Working with others with different skills, expertise, and experience to accomplish a task or goal.
- Physical dexterity: Precise and controlled movement, agility, coordination, delicacy, appropriate application of force.
- Observing: Situational awareness, monitoring.
Technical Skills Targets:
- Working efficiently with minimum waste in time-bound challenging environments.
- Using software to record and analyse data.
- Communicating effectively with different audiences using different media.
- Understanding gas science and systems.
- Replacing component equipment.
- Repairing system components.
- Ensuring system components are fit for purpose.
- Completing maintenance records and reports.
Plumbing and Heating Engineering
Employability Skills Targets:
- Planning: Identifying discrete steps, estimating time and resources, prioritising, sequencing activities.
- Analysing: Classifying, ordering.
- Investigating: Identifying sources, interrogating data.
- Self-managing: Reflecting and inviting feedback on own performance, referring to others for advice.
- Assessing a situation for potential adverse effects.
- Working with others with different skills, expertise, and experience to accomplish a task or goal.
- Physical dexterity: Precise and controlled movement, agility, coordination, delicacy, appropriate application of force.
- Evaluating: Considering and appraising process and evidence, making recommendations.
- Observing: Situational awareness, monitoring.
Technical Skills Targets:
- Updating records digitally.
- Understanding of heating science and systems.
- Measuring and marking out installation requirements.
- Cutting, placing, and fixing pipework.
- Attaching components to each other in a system.
- Setting system controls and parameters.
- Carrying out tests on systems.
- Using software to record and analyse data.
- Understanding plumbing systems.
- Replacing component equipment.
- Repairing components.
- Ensuring system components are fit for purpose.
- Completing maintenance records and reports.
Protection Systems Engineering
Employability Skills Targets:
- Planning: Identifying discrete steps, estimating time and resources, prioritising, sequencing activities.
- Analysing: Identifying common features, classifying, ordering.
- Self-managing: Reflecting and inviting feedback on own performance, managing time, setting personal goals, referring to others for advice.
- Assessing a situation for potential adverse effects.
- Working with others with different skills, expertise, and experience to accomplish a task or goal.
- Physical dexterity: Precise and controlled movement, agility, coordination, delicacy, appropriate application of force.
- Observing: Situational awareness, monitoring.
Technical Skills Targets:
- Working efficiently with minimum waste in time-bound challenging environments.
- Updating records digitally.
- Understanding how protection systems function.
- Measuring and marking out system layout.
- Installing cable and containment systems.
- Attaching components to each other in a system.
- Connecting control systems.
- Carrying out tests on systems.
- Completing installation records and reports.
Ventilation Engineering
Employability Skills Targets:
- Planning: Identifying discrete steps, estimating time and resources, prioritising, sequencing activities.
- Analysing: Identifying common features, classifying, ordering.
- Self-managing: Setting personal goals, referring to others for advice.
- Assessing a situation for potential adverse effects.
- Working with others with different skills, expertise, and experience to accomplish a task or goal.
- Physical dexterity: Precise and controlled movement, agility, coordination, delicacy, appropriate application of force.
- Observing: Situational awareness, monitoring.
Technical Skills Targets:
- Updating records digitally.
- Calculating task requirements.
- Understanding of ventilation engineering science and systems.
- Measuring and marking out installation requirements.
- Cutting, placing, and fixing ductwork.
- Attaching components to each other in a system.
- Connecting control systems.
- Carrying out tests on systems.
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