Qualification details

Employability skill

Industry/enterprise requirements for this qualification include:

Communication

• Analyses, evaluates and interprets a range of complex and technical documents, including relevant regulatory, legislative, licensing requirements, codes and standards, plans, drawings and specifications, contracts, reports, reference materials, building approvals, awards and workplace agreements
• Maintains and reports records and information
• Understands relevant definitions, terminology, symbols and language
• Communicates effectively with a range of relevant parties and provides expert testimony
• Establishes site communication procedures
• Prepares complex business documents, including project expenditure schedules and reports, such as technical and legal reports, drawings and project briefs
• Advises others regarding their obligations as well as company procedures
• Negotiates dispute resolution
• Sketches service layouts
• Implements feedback systems

Teamwork

• Demonstrates leadership within work teams and business units
• Collaboratively and effectively develops and implements operational plans
• Supervises work processes and systems, and delegates to others as required
• Works with others to overcome problems and achieve outcomes
• Establishes and maintains effective working relationships
• Seeks advice from senior management as required
• Works collaboratively with relevant stakeholders
• Relates to people from diverse social, cultural and ethnic backgrounds and with varying physical and mental abilities

Problem solving

• Analyses construction, environmental management, and energy conservation problems and applies appropriate and compliant remedial solutions
• Assesses structural integrity of medium rise buildings
• Ensures processes that identify faults and required remedial action
• Develops strategies to address project delays
• Performs various complex calculations relating to cost-benefit analysis, rise and fall amounts, pessimistic overdraft requirements, statistical analysis, costs, set out of construction work, structural analysis and service installations
• Analyses reasons for cost variations and takes remedial action
• Establishes and implements dispute resolution procedures
• Maintains site safety and manages risks
• Provides advice on dispute resolution
• Uses and analyses data in decision making

Initiative and enterprise

• Develops and initiates strategies to use resources effectively
• Ensures effective systems' development
• Implements effective project quality management and continuous improvement processes
• Recommends improvements to environmental management and energy conservation plans
• Develops strategies that maximise resource effectiveness
• Develops and reviews workplace sustainability policy

Planning and organising

• Supervises planning processes and organisation of on-site building or construction work projects, including instituting procedures and systems
• Develops sound and safe practices in relation to structural procedures on site
• Coordinates and manages construction and demolition processes
• Monitors building or construction costing systems
• Manages preparation of project expenditure schedules
• Supervises materials' procurement systems
• Manages selection, engagement and performance of building and construction contractors
• Administers legal obligations of building or construction contracts
• Establishes construction work policies, practices and procedures
• Prepares and implements environmental management and energy conservation plans, including workplace sustainability policy
• Advises and coordinates design process and obtains planning approval

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
• Takes responsibility as required by the work role
• Uses discretion and judgement when required in complex environments
• Deals with contingencies

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
• Manages induction and pre-engagement training processes

Technology

• Operates office equipment
• Uses computer equipment and relevant software
• Understands building construction materials and technologies
• Understands construction equipment and its use
• Operates and tests levelling equipment
• Uses technology to improve efficiency and effectiveness of managing work

To achieve this qualification, the candidate must demonstrate competency in:

• 18 units of competency:

• 13 core units
• 5 elective units.

The elective units may be selected from Groups A and B below as follows:

• a minimum of three elective units must be selected from Group A units below
• one of the five elective units may be selected from another endorsed Training Package or CPC08 Construction, Plumbing and Services Training Package, provided that the industry context of the qualification is maintained and that the unit is at Diploma level
• two of the five elective units may be selected from any Certificate IV in CPC08
• one of the five elective units may be selected from any Advanced Diploma in CPC08.

Core units of competency 

Unit code

Unit title

CPCCBC4001A

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

CPCCBC4003A

Select and prepare a construction contract

CPCCBC4004A

Identify and produce estimated costs for building and construction projects

CPCCBC4010B

Apply structural principles to residential low rise constructions

CPCCBC4013A

Prepare and evaluate tender documentation

CPCCBC5001B

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

CPCCBC5002A

Monitor costing systems on medium rise building and construction projects

CPCCBC5003A

Supervise the planning of on-site medium rise building or construction work

CPCCBC5010B

Manage construction work

CPCCBC5018A

Apply structural principles to the construction of medium rise buildings

BSBOHS504B

Apply principles of OHS risk management

BSBPMG505A

Manage project quality

BSBPMG508A

Manage project risk

Elective units of competency 

Elective units – Group A 

Unit code

Unit title

CPCCBC5004A

Supervise and apply quality standards to the selection of building and construction materials

CPCCBC5005A

Select and manage building and construction contractors

CPCCBC5006B

Apply site surveys and set-out procedures to medium rise building projects

CPCCBC5007A

Administer the legal obligations of a building or construction contract

CPCCBC5009A

Identify services layout and connection methods to medium rise construction projects

CPCCBC5011A

Manage environmental management practices and processes in building and construction

CPCCBC5012A

Manage the application and monitoring of energy conservation and management practices and processes

CPCCBC5013A

Develop professional technical and legal reports on building and construction projects

CPCSUS5001A

Develop workplace policies and procedures for sustainability

Elective units – Group B 

Unit code

Unit title

CPCCBC4005A

Produce labour and material schedules for ordering

CPCCBC4006B

Select, procure and store construction materials for low rise projects

CPCCBC4009B

Apply legal requirements to building and construction projects

CPCCBC4011B

Apply structural principles to commercial low rise constructions

CPCCBC4012A

Read and interpret plans and specifications

CPCCBC4014A

Prepare simple building sketches and drawings

CPCCBC4018A

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

CPCCBC4024A

Resolve business disputes

CPCCBC5004A

Supervise and apply quality standards to the selection of building and construction materials

CPCCBC5005A

Select and manage building and construction contractors

CPCCBC5006B

Apply site surveys and set-out procedures to medium rise building projects

CPCCBC5007A

Administer the legal obligations of a building or construction contract

CPCCBC5009A

Identify services layout and connection methods to medium rise construction projects

CPCCBC5011A

Manage environmental management practices and processes in building and construction

CPCCBC5012A

Manage the application and monitoring of energy conservation and management practices and processes

CPCCBC5013A

Develop professional technical and legal reports on building and construction projects

CPCCBC5014A

Conduct asbestos assessment associated with removal

CPCCOHS1001A

Work safely in the construction industry

BSBCUS501B

Manage quality customer service

BSBFIM501A

Manage budgets and financial plans

BSBHRM509A

Manage rehabilitation or return to work programs

BSBINN502A

Build and sustain an innovative work environment

BSBITA401A

Design databases

BSBITU402A

Develop and use complex spreadsheets

BSBITU404A

Produce complex desktop published documents

BSBLED502A

Manage programs that promote personal effectiveness

BSBMGT502B

Manage people performance

BSBMGT515A

Manage operational plan

BSBRSK501A

Manage risk

BSBSLS502A

Lead and manage a sales team

BSBWOR501B

Manage personal work priorities and professional development

BSBWOR502B

Ensure team effectiveness

CPPDSM5022A

Implement asset management plan