Construction Site Supervision – Building & Civil Engineering (Construction)

This Level 4 NVQ assessment enables candidates to demonstrate their individual competence working on site within the building & civil engineering sector. This includes showcasing supervisory abilities covering specialist skills, relating to the technical requirements of the construction industry.

This year saw the Construction Design Management Regulations receive an update. This now means that all workers need to prove that they possess the skills to work safely and competently within their chosen industry. That’s where NVQs can help. NVQ assessments are widely recognised as a way of proving these skills in industry. For construction site supervisors and staff on site who oversee a team there is an additional responsibility to ensure that employees of all levels working under you are qualified to do the job at hand.

Q2W are leading assessors when it comes to NVQ qualifications, making us the perfect choice to assess your skills on site with the least disruption to your working life. An assessor will visit you on site to complete an induction, to help decide what path suits your skills. This ensures that candidates are able to have their existing skills recognised, and achieve a Level 4 qualification from a nationally-recognised examination board without any negative impact to their day-to-day role.

We will appraise various evidence examples, from job site data to recognising prior learnt abilities. This evidence enables our assessors to help prove a candidate can comply with the requirements of this Level 4 NVQ assessment, and successfully meet industry compliance regulations.

What’s covered in your assessment

Our assessor will be observing that the candidate can adequately present the following skills:

• Confident in organising workflow on site, and planning activities and resources to ensure project requirements are met.

• Able to assess work methods and make suitable decisions based on a project's needs.

• Understand the impact of project costings, and contribute towards procurement and supply of materials.

• Have implemented communication systems and professional standards in the workplace.

• Be responsible for work allocation and monitoring performance of the wider site team.

For more information on the processes we go through during an NVQ assessment please take a look at our What Q2W Offer page.

Unit outline

To achieve a total minimum score of 123 credits, candidates must successfully complete all six mandatory units and one of the six pathways and must gain a minimum of 85 units to get a level 4 nvq or above. The units, as outlined in official Pearson course specification documents, are:

Mandatory units

1 - Maintaining Systems for Health, Safety, Welfare and Environmental Protection in the Workplace

2 - Assessing and Recommending Work Methods for Carrying Out Site Operations in the Workplace

3 - Planning Activities and Resources to Meet Work Requirements in the Workplace

4 - Co-ordinating and Organising the Control of Work in the Workplace

5 - Controlling Work Progress Against Agreed Programmes in the Workplace

6 - Allocating and Monitoring the Use of Plant, Equipment or Machinery in the Workplace

Optional units

7 - Developing and Maintaining good Occupational Working Relationships in the Workplace

8 - Maintaining Supplies of Materials to Meet Project Requirements in the Workplace

9 - Implementing Communication Systems for Construction Projects in the Workplace

10 - Maintaining the Dimensional Accuracy of Work in the Workplace

11 - Controlling Work Against Agreed Standards in the Workplace

12 - Contributing to the Control of Work Quantities and Costs in the Workplace

13 - Co-ordinating Preparation Work for Site or Lifting Operations in the Workplace

14 - Allocating Work and Checking People’s Performance in the Workplace

15 - Managing Personal Professional Development in the Workplace

16 - Identifying and Enabling Learning Opportunities for Given Work Teams in the Workplace

17 - Planning Highways Maintenance or Repair Activities in the Workplace

18 - Supervising Highways Maintenance or Repair Activities in the Workplace

19 - Contributing to the Identification of Work Teams in the Workplace

20 - Providing and Monitoring Construction-related Customer Service in the Workplace

21 - Handing Over Property to Recipients Following Construction or Maintenance Related Activities in the Workplace

22 - Planning Historical Conservation/ Restoration Activities in the Workplace

23 - Supervising Historical Conservation/ Restoration Activities in the Workplace

24 - Planning Demolition Activities in the Workplace

25 - Supervising Demolition Activities in the Workplace

26 - Supervising Tunnelling Activities in the Workplace

Next steps:

Successfully achieving this Level 4 NVQ qualification ensures that you comply with all updated CDM Regulations. Completion of this assessment also gives you the ability to apply for a Black CSCS card.

If a candidate wishes to progress further, there are options to continue on to complete higher level NVQ assessments, including Level 5 NVQ Diploma in Construction Management

(Sustainability) or Level 6 NVQ Diploma in Construction Site Management (Construction)

For more information on any of the assessments we offer, please call one of our helpful team members, or visit our contact us page for other ways to get in touch.

This assessment enables candidates to demonstrate their individual competence working on site within the building & civil engineering sector. This includes showcasing supervisory abilities covering specialist skills, relating to the technical requirements of the construction industry.