T Level Engineering, Manufacturing, Processing and Control: Skills Targets

These are the employability and technical skills targets for the T Level in Engineering, Manufacturing, Processing and Control, broken down by occupational specialism. Use them to set learning goals and placement objectives in Navigate.

Composites Manufacturing Technologies

Employability skills targets

• Self-managing: Monitoring, reflecting, and inviting feedback on own performance, managing time, setting personal goals, referring to others for advice.
• Communicating: Active listening, use of visual, oral, and written methods, engaging an audience, sharing, building rapport, adapting style and tone.
• Decision-making: Clarifying logical choices, identifying likely impact, using evidence and advice, justifying, substantiating, concluding.
• Analysing: Identifying common features, organising into types, discerning patterns, deconstructing, classifying, ordering.
• Investigating: Identifying sources, developing search criteria/queries, interrogating data, designing and carrying out tests.
• Observing: Situational awareness, monitoring.
• Working in a team: Collaborating with others with different skills, expertise, and experience to accomplish a task or goal.
• Integrating with a team: Settling in, communicating.
• Developing leadership: Setting direction, taking responsibility, modelling correct and appropriate behaviours.

Technical skills targets

• Working in a team, confirming/discussing the nature and scope of requirements from digital or paper plans and drawings.
• Setting out and costing resources, raw materials, outcomes, and timescales for checking by a supervisor.
• Identifying potential risks, issues, and areas that require further investigation such as problems with materials supply or machine faults.
• Identifying components, tools, equipment, resources, and preparatory checks/procedures required.
• Outlining potential risks and identifying health and safety requirements.
• Producing a plan to prepare materials and fabricating the project for the designated work area.
• Planning for wastage, disposal, and potential recycling within the project.
• Undertaking basic cutting and joining of materials following standard operating procedures.
• Checking and quality assuring completed project using measurements and/or observation.
• Evaluating the manufacturing processes, practices, and outcomes for review.

Fitting and Assembly Technologies

Employability skills targets

• Self-managing: Monitoring, reflecting, and inviting feedback on own performance, managing time, setting personal goals, referring to others for advice.
• Communicating: Active listening, use of visual, oral, and written methods, engaging an audience, sharing, building rapport, adapting style and tone.
• Decision-making: Clarifying logical choices, identifying likely impact, using evidence and advice, justifying, substantiating, concluding.
• Analysing: Identifying common features, organising into types, discerning patterns, deconstructing, classifying, ordering.
• Investigating: Identifying sources, developing search criteria/queries, interrogating data, designing and carrying out tests.
• Working in a team: Collaborating with others with different skills, expertise, and experience to accomplish a task or goal.
• Integrating with a team: Settling in, communicating.
• Developing leadership: Setting direction, taking responsibility, modelling correct and appropriate behaviours.

Technical skills targets

• Collecting/analysing existing data from the production process/method.
• Agreeing a brief setting out timescales, resources, and data collection methods.
• Identifying potential risks.
• Identifying components, tools, equipment, resources, and preparatory checks/procedures required.
• Identifying health and safety requirements.
• Collecting agreed data on the production process/method.
• Presenting a debrief.
• Restoring resources and work areas.
• Evaluating and reviewing process and outcome and identifying any potential opportunities for improvement or cost saving.

Machining and Toolmaking Technologies

Employability skills targets

• Self-managing: Monitoring, reflecting, and inviting feedback on own performance, managing time, setting personal goals, referring to others for advice.
• Communicating: Active listening, use of visual, oral, and written methods, engaging an audience, sharing, building rapport, adapting style and tone.
• Decision-making: Clarifying logical choices, identifying likely impact, using evidence and advice, justifying, substantiating, concluding.
• Analysing: Identifying common features, organising into types, discerning patterns, deconstructing, classifying, ordering.
• Investigating: Identifying sources, developing search criteria/queries, interrogating data, designing and carrying out tests.
• Working in a team: Collaborating with others with different skills, expertise, and experience to accomplish a task or goal.
• Integrating with a team: Settling in, communicating.
• Developing leadership: Setting direction, taking responsibility, modelling correct and appropriate behaviours.

Technical skills targets

• Collecting/analysing existing data from the processing method/operation.
• Agreeing a brief setting out timescales, resources, and data collection methods.
• Identifying potential risks.
• Identifying tools, resources, and equipment and preparatory checks/procedures required.
• Identifying health and safety requirements.
• Collecting agreed data on the processing operation/method.
• Presenting a debrief.
• Restoring tools, equipment, resources, and work areas.
• Evaluating and reviewing the outcome and identifying any potential opportunities for improvement or cost saving.

Fabrication and Welding Technologies

Employability skills targets

• Self-managing: Monitoring, reflecting, and inviting feedback on own performance, managing time, setting personal goals, referring to others for advice.
• Communicating: Active listening, use of visual, oral, and written methods, engaging an audience, sharing, building rapport, adapting style and tone.
• Decision-making: Clarifying logical choices, identifying likely impact, using evidence and advice, justifying, substantiating, concluding.
• Analysing: Identifying common features, organising into types, discerning patterns, deconstructing, classifying, ordering.
• Investigating: Identifying sources, developing search criteria/queries, interrogating data, designing and carrying out tests.
• Working in a team: Collaborating with others with different skills, expertise, and experience to accomplish a task or goal.
• Integrating with a team: Settling in, communicating.
• Developing leadership: Setting direction, taking responsibility, modelling correct and appropriate behaviours.

Technical skills targets

• Collecting and analysing the technical information on materials.
• Agreeing a brief setting out necessary resources, raw materials, costs, outcomes, and timescales.
• Identifying potential risks.
• Identifying health and safety requirements.
• Under supervision, preparing materials, resources, tools, and equipment.
• Under supervision, collecting agreed data on materials.
• Evaluating and reviewing, highlighting any areas where potential cost savings/improvements could be made.
• Restoring resources, equipment, and work areas.

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