Technical Services Course Catalogue

Academic Training

National Certificate – Power Generation Operations

NVQ level 3 – Power Plant Operations

Electrical Skills

ACB Distribution Systems

Battery maintenance   

Brush gear maintenance

Contactors and relays

Disconnect/reconnect motor cables up to 3.3Kv

Electrical actuators

Electrical appreciation

Electrical drawings

Electrical protection

Appreciation of IEE regulations – 16th edition

Installation and repair of cables

Portable appliance testing

Inverter drives

Switchgear to 650v

Switchgear to 11Kv

Transformers

Use of test equipment and fault finding

Control & instrumentation skills

Automatic Control Equipment

Flue gas monitors

Indicators and recorders

Introduction to programmable logic controllers

OIS system diagnostics

Plant condition monitoring

Pneumatic/hydraulic actuators

Process measurement & control

Temperature, pressure & flow

Telemetering systems

Turbine supervisory equipment and vibration analysis

Water & gas analysis

Mechanical skills

Cutting and burning

Couplings

Drives

Gland maintenance

Hydraulics and Pneumatics

Mechanical rotating plant

Non destructive testing techniques

Oil burner maintenance

Rigging and slinging

Scaffold appreciation and inspection

Small bore pipework

System scaffold

Use of hand tools

Valve & gland maintenance

Welding – manual metal arc

Welding – MIG/TIG

Welding – oxy/acetelyne

Operations training

Module 2, 3, 4

Fundamentals of water treatment

Plant operator - C.H.P. plant

Gas turbine driven generators or CHP

Diesel generation and operation (new 2006)

Plant operator - coal plant

Plant operator - gas plant

Plant operator - ash plant

Plant operator - oil plant

Safety and the environment

Abrasive wheels

Asbestos awareness

Accident investigation

Breathing apparatus escape sets

C.C.N.S.G. National Accredited Safety Passport (2 day basic course)

C.C.N.S.G. National Accredited Safety Passport (1 day supervisor course)

C.C.N.S.G. National Accredited Safety Passport (1 day refresher)

Chainsaw / brushcutting

Confined space rescue

Confined space supervisors

COSHH regulations

CDM appreciation

DSEAR

Electricity at work regulations

Environmental awareness

Environmental management

Fire safety and fire fighting

Fire marshall

Fire extinguisher (practical & theory)

First aid at work

First aid at work (refresher)

First aid at work appointed person

First aid (high voltage substations)

Gas pipeline audits

Gas awareness

Harness / fall arrest

Hearing (noise)

Hearing protection officer

HeSaC representative-initial course

HeSaC representative-refresher course

Hot working risk assessment

Incident controller training

Lifting & moving

L.O.L.E.R.

L.O.L.E.R./P.U.W.E.R.

Machinery guarding

Managing safety (in house)

Managing safety (IOSH)

Manual handling assessor

Manual handling instructors

Manual handling competent person (C.I.E.H.)

NEBOSH national certificate

Pressure regulations

Personal protection equipment

Radiography adviser

Risk assessment

Risk assessor (2 day)

Risk assessor refresher (1 day)

Safety rules – designated person

Safety rules – issuer

Safety rules – safety controller

Safety rules – national grid appointed person

S.A.P. senior authorised persons

A.P. authorised person

Safety representatives

Safety representatives refresher

Working at heights

Working safely (IOSH)

Steam/water pressure cleaning equipment (jet washing)

Mobile plant and equipment

Agricultural tractor

Access towers (aluminium mobile)

Bulldozer

Front end dumper trucks

Excavators above and below 5 tonnes

Industrial counterbalance fork lift truck

Fork lift reach truck

Fork lift sideloader truck

Fork lift counterbalance truck

Very narrow aisle fork lift truck

Pedestrian & rider operated pallet truck

Rough terrain fixed mast lift truck

Rough terrain variable reach lift truck (telescopic handler)

Front end loading shovels (wheeled & tracked)

Lorry loaders

Mobile elevated work platforms

Scrapers (euclids)

Slinger / signaller

Steps, ladders & staging

Mobile crane

Overhead gantry cab crane (hook & grab)

Pendant crane (remote)

Pendant crane

Simons hoist

Kone ship unloader

Narrow aisle trucks

Lorry mounted crane

Crane supervisor course

Information and Communication Technology

APMS ACS configuration

Lotus Notes

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Project 98

Microsoft Word

Using the intranet/internet effectively