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.

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.

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.

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.

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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