UEEEL0058 - Plan large electrical projects

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Unit code: UEEEL0058 | Study level: TAFE
Credit points
N/A
Location
Sunshine
Prerequisites
UEECD0007 - Apply work health and safety regulations, codes and practices in the workplace
(Or equivalent to be determined by unit coordinator)
Overview
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Overview

This unit involves the skills and knowledge required to plan large electrical projects.It includes preparing and developing project plans for approval. It also includes establishing budgets and critical path analysis; developing workflow strategies; and documenting, presenting and negotiating budgets and timelines.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce & extend knowledge and skill competence within set & controlled parameters in accordance with each unit's learning outcomes & performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:

  • determining the project requirements accurately
  • establishing a project budget
  • developing effective workflow strategies
  • documenting project plan proposal
  • negotiating alterations to the proposed project plan successfully
  • obtaining approval of the final plan
  • dealing with unplanned events
  • applying relevant work health and safety (WHS)/occupational health and safety (OHS) requirements, including using risk control measures
  • identifying project scope and requirements, including plant, material, labour and related costs.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

  • electrical project planning and analysing progress, including:
  • project planning encompassing:

    purpose of project planning

  • defining project parameters encompassing:

    project scope
    project stakeholders and clients
    project phases and the relationship between phases

  • time requirements and limitations
  • resource requirements and limitations

    quality requirements and limitations
    time-management concepts and standard practices
    financial management encompassing:
    financial management concepts
    standard practices for managing project finances
    project budgets
    costs
    variations and estimations
    invoicing against project phases/deliverables
    acquittals

  • quality management concepts and practices
  • human resource management concepts and practices within a project
  • communication management concepts and practices within a project
  • risk management and contingencies encompassing:

    risk management concepts
    internal risks
    external risks
    contingencies
    standard practices for managing risk within a project
    risk minimisation
    risk removal

  • procurement management concepts and practices
  • physical resource management concepts and practices relating to equipment, technology, information and facilities
  • contracts encompassing:

    contract format
    contract content
    interpreting contract clauses
    legal obligations of contract parties
    working to contract specifications
    documentation accompanying contracts, such as schedules

  • performance assessment and continuous improvement
  • engineering ethics principles
  • customer/client relations encompassing:

    importance of customer/client relations
    interpersonal skills that enhance customer/client relationships
    dispute resolution
    customer/client relations strategies

  • electrical industry sector customs and practices encompassing:

    equipment procurement, cost-benefit analysis and performance testing
    typical approaches to planning and management
    successful planning techniques
    best practice management methods and styles
    documents needed to plan a project
    factors influencing sequence and restraints of project activities
    critical path analysis covering graphical representation methods and methods of representing time/rates

  • critical path and project analysis encompassing:

    purpose of critical path analysis
    essential data
    relational sequence of work activities
    graphical representation methods
    methods of representing time/rates
    monitoring methods

  • relevant manufacturer specifications and operating instructions
  • relevant plant, material, labour and related costs to project
  • relevant WHS/OHS legislated requirements
  • relevant workplace documentation
  • relevant workplace instructions, policies and procedures.

Required reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by the VU Polytechnic and/or via the Victoria University Polytechnic e-Learning system.

As part of a course

This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):

Advanced Diploma of Engineering Technology - Electrical
UEE62122 | Advanced diploma | Duration:

Refer to the course page for information on how to apply for the course. VU takes care to ensure the accuracy of this unit information, but reserves the right to change or withdraw courses offered at any time. Please check that unit information is current with the Student Contact Centre.

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