ProQual Level 6 NVQ Diploma in Construction Site Management (Construction) – Highways and Maintenance Repair
ProQual
Ofqual Regulated Awarding Body
Level 6
18 Mandatory +8 Optional Units
Course Overview
What is this course
The ProQual Level 6 NVQ Diploma in Construction Site Management (Construction) – Highways and Maintenance Repair is an Ofqual-regulated qualification designed for professionals managing road construction, maintenance, and repair projects across the UK. It provides a practical and industry-focused understanding of highways site management, helping learners deliver safe, efficient, and compliant infrastructure works.
This course covers key areas such as highways planning, pavement repair, drainage systems, traffic management, and maintenance of road structures. Learners develop the skills to coordinate teams, manage public safety, and ensure projects are completed to a high standard while minimising disruption.
The qualification aligns with key UK legislation, including the Highways Act 1980, the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991, and the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015. It also reflects environmental and traffic management requirements. Overall, the course supports professional, compliant, and effective highways project management in line with UK standards.
Course Content
Detailed Curriculum Structure
To achieve the qualification candidates must complete all Units.
Key Topics Covered in the Highways and Maintenance Repair Course:
The curriculum delivers in-depth knowledge through core modules:
Mandatory Units – candidates must complete all units in this group
- Developing and maintaining good occupational working relationships in the workplace
- Allocating work and monitoring people’s performance in the workplace
- Contributing to the identification of a work team in the workplace
- Establishing, implementing and maintaining organisational systems for managing health, safety, welfare and wellbeing in the workplace
- Establishing, controlling and monitoring environmental factors and sustainability in the workplace
- Evaluating and confirming work methods in the workplace
- Planning the preparation of the site for the project in the workplace
- Monitoring project activities in the workplace
- Ensuring that work activities and resources meet project work requirements in the workplace
- Organising, controlling and monitoring supplies of materials in the workplace
- Identifying and maintaining communication systems and organisational procedures in the workplace
- Controlling project progress against agreed quality standards in the workplace
- Controlling project progress against agreed programmes in the workplace
- Managing your personal development in the workplace
- Planning highways maintenance and repair activities in the workplace
- Identifying, allocating and planning the deployment and use of plant, equipment or machinery in the workplace
- Controlling project quantities and costs in the workplace
- Evaluating feedback and making recommendations in the workplace, monitoring and removal of temporary works in the workplace
Optional Units – TWO unit
- Enabling learning opportunities in the workplace
- Providing customer services in the construction workplace
- Planning activities to traditional and heritage buildings and structures in the workplace
- Planning demolition activities in the workplace
- Establishing dimensional control criteria in the workplace
- Planning and scheduling the maintenance activities of property, services or systems in the workplace
- Managing the project handover in the workplace
- Managing the installation, maintenance, monitoring and removal of temporary works in the workplace
Additional Units – Not mandatory
- Supervising activities to traditional and heritage buildings and structures in the workplace
- Supervising tunnelling activities in the workplace
- Planning tunnelling activities in the workplace
- Planning the installation of retrofit works in the workplace
- Managing installation, commissioning and handover of retrofit works in the workplace
Who Should Attend
Target Audience and Participants
The ProQual Level 6 NVQ Diploma in Construction Site Management (Construction) – Highways and Maintenance Repair is an Ofqual-regulated qualification designed for experienced professionals working on road construction, maintenance, and repair projects. It provides clear and practical knowledge of highways management, traffic control, and legal compliance in line with UK standards such as the Highways Act 1980, New Roads and Street Works Act 1991, and CDM 2015.
This course is ideal for:
- Highways Site Managers: Managing daily roadworks, resurfacing, and maintenance projects on local roads and major networks
- Project and Contracts Managers: Overseeing highways programmes within civil engineering or local authority teams
- Supervisors and Foremen: Looking to progress into senior site management roles
- Street Works Managers: Ensuring permits, inspections, and reinstatement meet legal requirements
- Traffic Management Coordinators: Managing road signs, signals, and diversions safely
- Health and Safety Managers: Handling risks related to traffic, plant, and public safety
- Winter Service Managers: Managing gritting, snow clearance, and emergency response operations
- Bridges and Structures Managers: Overseeing repair and maintenance of highway structures
- Local Authority Officers: Managing highways projects and contractor performance
- Progressing Learners: Moving from Level 4 or 5 into senior highways management roles
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