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Manage marine construction contracts
Level
6
Credits
20
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: establish clients'
requirements for marine construction; reach agreement with clients and
specify the work required; liaise with clients during the construction process;
and hand over completed work to clients.
This unit standard applies to the construction of complete boats, and to major
boat components, such as hulls, decks, superstructures, under water
appendages, masts and spars, that can be manufactured in isolation from
each other.
Subfield
Boating Industries
Domain
Boatbuilding
Status
Registered
Status date
7 May 1997
Date version published
20 March 2009
Planned review date
31 December 2012
Entry information
Open.
Accreditation
Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA and
industry.
Standard setting body (SSB)
Boating Industry Training Organisation
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference
0136
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Special notes
1
The credit value of this unit standard has been calculated on the basis that people
seeking credit have acquired knowledge and skills in the building of boats in the
medium chosen.
2
Evidence of the elements of this unit standard must be presented across the
following contexts:
a Boat media – timber, fibre-reinforced composites (FRC), aluminium, or steel.
Evidence is required for one.
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The following apply to the performance of all elements of this unit standard:
a All work practices must meet documented worksite quality management
requirements. These include documentation of activities, events, and decisions.
b All communications made in relation to this unit standard must be made in
accordance with company procedures for content, recipient, timing, and method.
c All activities must comply with any policies, procedures and requirements of the
organisation/s involved; the ethical codes of relevant professional bodies; and any
relevant legislative and/or regulatory requirements, which can include but are not
limited to the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992, Resource Management
Act 1991, Employment Relations Act 2000, Fair Trading Act 1986, and the
Consumer Guarantees Act 1993, and subsequent and delegated legislation.
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This unit standard can be assessed on and off job in combination.
Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Establish clients' requirements for marine construction.
Performance criteria
1.1
Analysis of clients' requirements establishes the principal features of the
proposed construction.
Range
1.2
Clients' requirements are confirmed as being within the capability of the
company to provide.
Range
1.3
principal features – size, type, materials, internal systems,
regulatory requirements.
from own resources and/or by outsourcing and/or subcontracting.
Advice on design aspects enables clients' requirements to be achieved.
Range
design aspects – materials, shape, motive power, choice of
designer or published designs.
Element 2
Reach agreement with clients and specify the work required.
Performance criteria
2.1
Agreed terms are quantified, and documented to company and clients'
requirements.
Range
terms – design to be used, costings and payments, construction
method, target dates, time and cost factors, systems, fittings,
furnishings, surfaces.
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2.2
The work is specified in accordance with company requirements for work
sequence, materials, and timings.
Element 3
Liaise with clients during the construction process.
Performance criteria
3.1
Progress reporting is carried out in accordance with contractual and
subsequently-agreed clients' and/or company requirements.
3.2
Variations to contracts are documented in accordance with company
requirements.
Element 4
Hand over completed work to clients.
Performance criteria
4.1
Completed work is checked as completed and operational to clients' agreed
requirements.
4.2
Clients’ acceptance that the work has been completed as agreed is
documented in accordance with company procedures.
Please note
Providers must be accredited by NZQA, or an inter-institutional body with delegated
authority for quality assurance, before they can report credits from assessment against
unit standards or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be accredited by NZQA before they can register
credits from assessment against unit standards.
Accredited providers and Industry Training Organisations assessing against unit standards
must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards.
Accreditation requirements and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this
standard are outlined in the Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP). The
AMAP also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations
wishing to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for
tutors and assessors, and special resource requirements.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact the Boating Industry Training Organisation training@bia.org.nz if you wish
to suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
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