Overview
Confirms occupational competence in operating plant with attachments as carried out in your day-to-day work. Assessment is built around the plant you already operate, with your assessor gathering evidence on site rather than in a classroom.
Suitability and Requirements
You must be employed or working in a role where the relevant activity is carried out, so evidence can be gathered on live work.
Experience in the role is assumed; there is no classroom entry test for the qualification itself.
You must have passed the correct CITB Health, Safety and Environment test within the last two years to apply for the card.
Assessment and Evidence
Workplace observations by your assessor, professional discussion, witness testimony and a portfolio of work products. Your assessor plans visits around live work and supports you between them remotely.
Duration and Delivery
Delivery
Workplace Assessment
Typically 3–9 months depending on evidence availability and access to work. Assessment takes place in your real workplace across Norfolk, Suffolk and the wider East of England, with remote portfolio support.
Where this NVQ takes you
Card colour signals occupational level, competence and professional standing.
Blue Skilled Worker Card
NVQ Level 2
Proven skilled occupational competence, supporting application for the Blue Skilled Worker card.
Card issue depends on your qualification, pathway and current CSCS scheme rules, including the relevant CITB test. We'll confirm what applies before you enrol — this page does not guarantee a card outcome.
Pricing
Haswell Charge
£750
Includes registration, assessment, assessor visits and certification claim. VAT position confirmed on quotation.
CITB grant funding
Levy-paying construction employers may be able to claim CITB grant support towards this NVQ. Grant is claimed by the employer after registration; it is not a discount deducted at checkout, and the amount you pay Haswell Training is unaffected by whether a claim is later made.
Additional Unit
£300.00 per unit
Subject to employer, qualification and current CITB grant eligibility; the employer remains responsible for claiming.
Check your eligibility
We will confirm whether your organisation currently attracts grant support for this qualification, and what you need to claim.
Request a quote or assessment
You're enquiring about Level 2 NVQ Diploma in Plant Operations (Construction) – Excavating. Tell us about the work you or your team already do and we'll confirm price, evidence needed and whether grant funding applies before you commit to anything.