ProQual Level 6 NVQ Diploma in Construction Site Management – Building & Civil Engineering Pathway
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Earn Your Black CSCS Card and Advance Your Site Management Career The ProQual Level 6 NVQ Diploma in Construction Site Management is designed for experienced Assistant Site Managers and Site Managers ready to formalise their leadership skills. This qualification is approved for the Black CSCS Card and is a recognised route for site managers in the UK construction sector. No exams—assessment is based on the evidence of your work. You’ll complete a comprehensive portfolio of work with full support from a dedicated assessor. CITB Levy-paying employers may also reclaim a £600 achievement grant.
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Accredited Certification
Earn a ProQual Level 6 NVQ Diploma.
Flexible Study
Start anytime. Learn at your own pace.
18 Months Access
Work at your own pace around your current role.
CITB Grant Available
£600 reclaimable for eligible levy payers.
Approved for Black CSCS Card
Qualify for advanced site roles. Card applications subject to eligibility.
You will build your portfolio across 20 units—19 mandatory and 1 optional—based on real work activities.
19 Units – Optional Unit Required
Designed for working Site Managers and Assistant Site Managers looking to formalise their skills, progress their careers, and gain their Black CSCS Card.
A practical and credible pathway to senior-level site management roles in building and civil engineering.
Secure a recognised qualification and formalise your expertise to progress in construction site management roles.
Diploma for Advanced Construction Site Managers
Formalise your site management skills through real-world evidence, with no exams.
Support from Construction Industry Experts
Our assessors have deep industry experience and support you one-to-one from start to finish.
Real-World, Evidence-Based Assessment
Submit site records, toolbox talks, method statements, meeting minutes, and other work-based documents.
Structured Learning with Flexibility
Study around your job with clear milestones and professional feedback at every stage.
Qualify for Black CSCS Card & CITB Grant
Meet the industry benchmark and unlock access to the £600 CITB achievement grant if eligible.
This qualification is a work-based diploma for Site Managers and Assistant Site Managers. It assesses your practical experience and technical knowledge in construction site operations and leadership, qualifying you for the Black CSCS Card.
ProQual specifies 2,180–2,290 hours of Total Qualification Time, depending on the pathway. This estimates overall qualification activity, not compulsory classroom attendance or a guaranteed completion time. View the ProQual qualification specification.
For experienced construction site managers who control site delivery, coordinate teams and resources, and make decisions about safety, quality and progress. Gain a ProQual qualification through supported assessment of your real workplace evidence. Check that your current site-management responsibilities cover the qualification before enrolling.
Review the Black CSCS Manager Card pathway alongside this qualification. The accepted route depends on your construction occupation and the qualification pathway completed, with the required CITB Managers and Professionals test and current CSCS application requirements. Qualification completion does not itself award a card.
Your evidence comes from managing construction work on site: planning delivery, coordinating people and resources, monitoring standards and resolving problems. Select the pathway that matches the type of construction work you manage.
Your management evidence centres on commercial, procurement, planning, tendering, surveying or other technical contracting functions. Compare Level 6 Construction Contracting Operations Management and its optional units before choosing a site-focused qualification.
Level 4, Level 6 or Level 7? Compare Level 4 Site Supervision if you supervise work without overall site-management responsibility. Consider Level 7 Senior Management when you can evidence senior leadership and wider construction management decisions; it is not an automatic requirement after Level 6.
A qualification alone does not award a card. Our Black CSCS Manager Card guide explains the occupational-route checks and separate application requirements.
Check whether your site-management responsibilities match this NVQ. Include your role, site type and examples of work you personally manage.
SHEC Learning® supports you to demonstrate knowledge, decisions and real workplace performance. This competence-based NVQ is for experienced practitioners with access to suitable evidence.
Plan and control site delivery, programme, quality, safety and resources.
Hold sufficient real management responsibility to demonstrate the selected standards.
Coordinate construction work, teams and project requirements.
Manage residential, highways, heritage, demolition, tunnelling or retrofit activity where an appropriate route is available.
These pathways relate to ProQual. SHEC Learning® confirms the awarding body, available pathway and unit requirements before enrolment.
This structure applies to the ProQual Building & Civil Engineering pathway. Other pathways and awarding-body routes have their own requirements.
There is no single traditional final written examination. Assessment establishes your knowledge, understanding and competence against the selected units.
Site-management plans, programmes and look-aheads, progress and quality records, safety and welfare systems, environmental records, work-method reviews, workforce and supplier coordination, meeting records, resource plans, cost controls and temporary works or handover evidence where relevant.
Documents must show your contribution and be authentic, relevant and sufficiently current.
Demonstrate competence through genuine work products, projects, reports and assessor observation where required. Complete knowledge workbooks for knowledge outcomes. Your assessor agrees a plan matched to your awarding-body route; professional discussion and witness testimony are not used for competence outcomes.
Your assessor confirms evidence sufficiency, with internal quality assurance and the awarding body’s external quality assurance.
Complete the qualification and pathway appropriate to your site-management role.
Check and complete the applicable CITB Managers and Professionals HS&E test within the required validity period.
CSCS checks your occupation, qualification and current application requirements before issuing a card.
Before choosing a qualification for your card application, read the Black CSCS Manager Card requirements and NVQ route guide. It explains occupation matching, SMSTS, the Managers and Professionals test and the separate CSCS application.
Level 4 focuses on supervisory responsibility. Level 6 suits managers planning and controlling site delivery and management systems. You do not need to take Level 4 first where your current role and evidence justify Level 6.
Level 6 focuses on site operations. Level 7 suits experienced senior managers with broader strategic or organisational responsibility. Choose the level you can genuinely evidence.
Consider a contracting route where your role centres on commercial, planning or contracting functions.
Choose Senior Site Inspection when your work centres on inspecting workmanship, reporting quality findings, managing technical information and supporting handover. Choose Site Management when you plan and control site delivery, programmes, people and resources.
SHEC Learning® offers the ProQual route. We confirm your awarding body, available pathway and assessment requirements during the suitability review.
You need genuine site-management responsibility and access to workplace evidence. A job title alone does not establish suitability.
The ProQual Building & Civil Engineering pathway requires 19 mandatory units and one optional unit. Other ProQual pathways have different requirements, confirmed before enrolment.
Assessment is competence based through a workplace portfolio and professional assessment, rather than a single traditional final examination.
No. The qualification, occupational match, applicable test and separate CSCS application requirements must all be met.
No. SMSTS is safety-management training; the NVQ assesses occupational competence. Check the qualification requirements for your intended CSCS card.
No. Qualifications can share a framework level while differing in type, purpose and assessment. This qualification is an NVQ Diploma.
The course fee is £1,895. VAT may apply. Payment options, applicable VAT and programme arrangements are confirmed at enrolment.
Eligible employers may be able to claim support subject to current CITB rules and eligibility. Confirm the position before relying on funding.
Tell SHEC Learning® about your current role, site responsibilities and evidence access so we can confirm the right awarding-body route and evidence plan before enrolment. If your main duties are supervision, contracting operations or inspection, we will compare the appropriate alternative with you.