Title
Version
Level
NZSCED
1
5
030301
DAS classification
Qualification developer
282
Next review
Approval date
Strategic purpose statement
Graduate profile
Qualification type Certificate
Credits 110-120
Engineering and Related Technologies > Process and Resource
Engineering > Chemical Engineering
Manufacturing > Energy and Chemical Plant
Primary Industry Training Organisation
December 2019
The purpose of this qualification is to provide the energy and chemical plant industry with experienced employees who have attained the operational skills and knowledge required to work as control room operators..
This qualification is suitable for experienced energy and chemical plant employees working as control room operators, or those wishing to enter the role. The qualification provides a credential that will support career opportunities for graduates in a range of energy or chemical plant contexts.
Graduate would have established standards of competent performance to control the safe and efficient operation of an energy or chemical plant, and are able to carry out a range of complex operations without supervision.
The strands enable candidates to apply the specialist knowledge and skills required to control an energy or chemical plant or coordinate a plant outage.
Graduates of this qualification will be able to:
 apply safe and efficient work management systems in an energy or chemical plant
 control process conditions and operate plant systems in an energy or chemical plant
 analyse the commercial implications of an energy or chemical plant operation.
Graduates of the Chemical Plant strand will also be able to:
 control operations in a chemical plant.
Graduates of the Steam Generation Plant strand will also be able to:
 control operations in a steam generation plant.
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Education pathway
Employment pathway
Graduates of the Plant Outage Coordination strand will also be able to:
 coordinate an outage of an energy or chemical plant.
This qualification is for experienced people within the energy and chemical plant industry and builds on from the New Zealand
Certificate in Energy and Chemical Plant Field Operation (Level
4) with strands in Process Plant Equipment, Steam Plant,
Geothermal Operation, Petrochemical Operation, Petrochemical
Station, and Petrochemical Transfer and Storage [Ref: 2307].
There are no further qualifications in the Energy and Chemical
Plant field but this qualification may lead to qualifications in business management or in engineering related fields.
Graduates of this qualification may gain employment as a control room operator in an energy or chemical plant.
An energy or chemical plant context may occur in petrochemicals, agri-nutrients, power generation, dairy processing, meat processing and wood fibre manufacturing or other plants that operate with a combination of high temperature, pressures, steam and/or chemicals in gas, liquid or solid form.
Qualification award This qualification will be awarded by an organisation which either has programme approval and accreditation or an approved industry training programme.
The certificate will display the title of the qualification; the logos of the NZQF and PITO; and the name and/or logo of the awarding body.
Evidence requirements for managing consistency
All education organisations offering programmes leading to the qualification must engage with arrangements for managing consistency, including covering actual and reasonable related costs.
Each education organisation is responsible for deciding what specific evidence it will provide to demonstrate how well its graduates meet the graduate profile outcomes of the qualification.
Evidence of the following must be provided:
• Student feedback on course delivery and qualification achievement, their perception of the value of the training, and suggestions for improvements
• Feedback from employers on the level of skills, knowledge and behaviour demonstrated by graduates of the qualification
• Evidence of effective internal quality assurance systems
• Portfolios of work and/or assessment samples
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Credit transfer and recognition of prior learning arrangements
Minimum standard of achievement and standards for grade endorsements
Entry requirements (including prerequisites to meet regulatory body or legislative requirements) demonstrating the range of student performance within a programme
TEOs can also provide any other relevant evidence that supports the consistency review.
Organisations seeking approval to award the qualification are expected to have Recognition of Current Competency
(RCC) or Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) assessment processes in place. Credit transfer will be automatic where assessment standards are used for assessment within programmes of study or training leading to this qualification.
The minimum standard of achievement required for the award of the qualification will be the achievement of all outcomes. There are no grade endorsements for this qualification.
It is recommended that candidates hold the New Zealand
Certificate in Energy and Chemical Plant Field Operation
(Level 4) with strands in Process Plant Equipment, Steam
Plant, Geothermal Operation, Petrochemical Operation,
Petrochemical Station, Petrochemical Transfer and Storage, and an optional endorsement in Emergency Response [Ref:
2307].
Overarching conditions relating to the qualification
Conditions for programme structure
Candidates undertaking programmes leading to the award of this qualification will be required to complete the core graduate outcomes and one of the strands.
Conditions for programme context
TEOs arranging training or delivering programmes towards this qualification must ensure that the training arranged and programmes of learning are kept up-to-date with regard to amendments to, and replacements of, legislation and industry standards applicable to the energy and chemical plant sector.
None.
Other conditions
Specific conditions relating to the Graduate profile
Qualification outcomes Conditions Mandatory or Optional
1 Apply safe and efficient work management systems in an energy or chemical plant
Credits 30
This outcome may be demonstrated through assessment against these unit standards
28164
28167
Optional
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2 Control process conditions and operate plant systems in an energy or chemical plant
Credits 50
3 Analyse the commercial
4
5
6 implications of an energy or chemical plant operation
Credits 10
Chemical Plant strand:
Control operations in a chemical plant
Credits 20
Steam Generation Plant strand:
Control operations in a steam generation plant
Credits 25
Plant Outage Coordination strand:
Coordinate an outage of an energy or chemical plant
Credits 30
This outcome may be demonstrated through assessment against these unit standards
28162
28163
This outcome may be demonstrated through assessment against this unit standard
28166
This outcome may be demonstrated through assessment against these unit standards
18423
18733
Assessment may also include relevant unit standards at Level
4 or above in the following domains on the NZQF:
Petrochemical Process and
Product Management
Pulp and Paper - Chemical
Plants
Workplace Fire and Emergency
Response
This outcome may be demonstrated through assessment against these unit standards
3035
3037
This outcome may be demonstrated through assessment against this unit standard
28165
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
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Version 1 of this qualification was republished In February 2015 to update the Evidence requirements for managing consistency
Version 1 of this qualification was republished in December 2014 to update the credit value of the Steam
Generation Plant strand.
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