Qualification details

EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS QUALIFICATION SUMMARY 

Employability skill 

Industry /enterprise requirements for this qualification include :

Communication

• Communicates OHS policies and procedures
• Participates in ensuring compliance with standards, regulations and policies
• Communicates effectively with a range of relevant parties through a range of media
• Establishes on-site communication systems
• Facilitates site meetings
• Articulates complex ideas clearly
• Interprets a range of complex and technical documents, including relevant regulatory, legislative, licensing and registration requirements, codes and standards, plans, drawings and specifications, contracts, schedules, site files, development approvals, and organisational policies and procedures
• Analyses and evaluates reports and reference materials
• Understands relevant definitions, terminology, symbols and language
• Maintains and checks logs, records and documents
• Prepares a range of documents, including construction contracts, plans, sketches and drawings and specifications, reports, tenders, schedules, building applications and submissions and file notes
• Reports and records hazards and risks
• Negotiates conflict and dispute resolution
• Analyses a range of data, including company and stakeholder resource consumption and waste product volumes

Teamwork

• Conducts briefings with team members
• Coordinates a range of team members and activities
• Keeps team informed of work practices, quality requirements and required actions
• Relates positively to fellow workers and the management team
• Relates to people from diverse social, cultural and ethnic backgrounds and with varying physical and mental abilities
• Seeks expert advice where appropriate
• Works collaboratively with relevant stakeholders
• Understands various stakeholders' roles
• Supervises and checks others' work, monitors work processes and ensures safe work practices
• Discusses ideas with team members

Problem solving

• Assesses structural integrity of residential and commercial low rise buildings
• Performs various calculations relating to estimating resource acquisition and costs, rise and fall amounts measurement of levels, heights and gradients, structural analysis, drawing dimensions, setting out of construction projects, comparisons of alternative water management systems, waste management minimisation strategies and thermal efficiency, rated capacity and working load limits and budgeting and forecasting
• Examines tools and equipment prior to use for damage, missing components or other defects
• Identifies and rectifies faults
• Responds effectively to hazards, risks and emergencies
• Analyses problems and applies appropriate remedial solutions
• Resolves business disputes
• Deals with customer complaints and disputes
• Analyses rejected building applications and determines the likely success of an appeal or a resubmission
• Devises approaches, implements and reflects on environmental and water, energy and resource efficiency management policies and procedures relevant to work site to improve environmental sustainability and shares alternative approaches as required

Initiative and enterprise

• Evaluates properties of construction materials and selects appropriate materials based on evaluation
• Develops compliant, alternative solutions to construction problems
• Assesses thermal efficiency of buildings and reviews design solutions for effectiveness and compliance
• Identifies risks and hazards
• Identifies opportunities for improved water management
• Evaluates effective strategies for insulating structures
• Develops waste management strategies and dispute resolution procedures
• Identifies environmental and resource efficiency improvements, applies knowledge about resource use to organisational activities and customer service and develops resource efficiency tools

Planning and organising

• Plans and coordinates various work operations
• Prepares project schedules
• Participates in effective implementation of organisation's operational plans
• Plans and organises on-site activities and implements procedures associated with building and construction work
• Identifies and organises resource requirements and obtains supply information
• Supervises various administrative and work processes, including claims and payments, insurance coverage, payroll systems and tax systems
• Collects, analyses and organises workplace information and data
• Plans and organises inspections
• Organises testing of construction materials to ensure suitability

Self management

• Manages own performance to ensure required levels of service standards, work quality and professional competence
• Manages work priorities and professional development
• Uses feedback to improve own performance
• Organises and completes daily work activities

Learning

• Is open to new ideas and techniques
• Seeks feedback on personal performance
• Uses information effectively to improve work performance
• Learns from colleagues as part of effective teamwork

Technology

• Operates office equipment
• Uses computer equipment and relevant software
• Uses cameras
• Assesses new and emerging technologies for application to construction processes
• Uses a range of tools and equipment, including technical instruments and surveying equipment
• Maintains tools and equipment as required
• Uses technology to improve efficiency and effectiveness of managing work

CPCCBC4001A

Apply building codes and standards to the construction process for low rise building projects

CPCCBC4002A

Manage occupational health and safety in the building and construction workplace

CPCCBC4007A

Plan building or construction work

CPCCBC4008B

Conduct on-site supervision of building and construction projects

CPCCBC4009B

Apply legal requirements to building and construction projects

CPCCBC4010B

Apply structural principles to residential low rise constructions

CPCCBC4011B

Apply structural principles to commercial low rise constructions

CPCCBC4012A

Read and interpret plans and specifications

BSBWOR402A

Promote team effectiveness

CPCCBC4005A

Produce labour and material schedules for ordering

CPCCBC4014A

Prepare simple building sketches and drawings

CPCCBC4015A

Prepare specifications for all construction works

CPCCBC4017A

Arrange resources and prepare for the building or construction project

CPCCBC4018A

Apply site surveys and set-out procedures to building and construction projects

CPCCBC4019A

Apply sustainable building design principles to water management systems

CPCCBC4020A

Build thermally efficient and sustainable structures

CPCCBC4021A

Minimise waste on the building and construction site

CPCCBC4023A

Plan and undertake site inspection and assessment of asbestos products and materials

CPCCBC4024A

Resolve business disputes

CPCCBC4025A

Manage personal work priorities and professional development

CPCCBC4026A

Arrange building applications and approvals

CPCCBC4028A

Prepare design brief for construction works

CPCSUS4001A

Implement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practices

BSBCUS301A

Deliver and monitor a service to customers

BSBITU201A

Produce simple word processed documents

BSBITU202A

Create and use spreadsheets

BSBITU301A

Create and use databases

BSBMGT403A

Implement continuous improvement

BSBPMG404A

Apply quality management techniques

BSBPMG407A

Apply risk management techniques

BSBPMG510A

Manage projects

BSBWOR401A

Establish effective workplace relationships

BSBWRT401A

Write complex documents

HLTHIR403B

Work effectively with culturally diverse clients and co-workers

TAEDEL402A

Plan, organise and facilitate learning in the workplace