Your CPCS red Trainee Operator card is temporary and cannot be renewed. Complete your NVQ Level 2 with us — assessed on your own site, while you work — and upgrade to the blue Competent Operator card that employers and principal contractors ask for.
Start My UpgradeA red trainee card lasts two years from issue and cannot be renewed or extended. If it lapses without an NVQ, you go back to square one.
The NVQ Level 2 is achieved by on-site evidence and professional discussion with your assessor — no classroom, no written exams.
Your blue Competent Operator card is valid for five years and renewable — the qualification that proves you can operate for a living.
We handle the registration, the assessment visits and the card application. You keep working and earning throughout.
Call us with your red card details and the categories you operate. We register you for the NVQ Level 2 in Plant Operations and assign your assessor.
Your assessor visits you on site to observe you working, gather evidence and hold professional discussions. Most candidates complete the portfolio in a matter of weeks.
Once the NVQ is achieved we submit your blue Competent Operator card application to CPCS on your behalf and track it until the card is in your hand.
The sooner you call the better. If your card is still in date we can usually register you and get evidence gathering started quickly. If it has already lapsed, call us anyway — we’ll talk you through your options honestly.
No. The NVQ Level 2 is a workplace qualification. Your assessor observes you operating on your own site and builds the portfolio with you. There are no written exams.
It depends on how often you’re on the machine, but most working operators complete the evidence in a matter of weeks. We’ll give you a realistic timescale when you register.
Call us on 07934 141467 for a straight price for your category — and ask about group rates if several operators on your site need upgrading at the same time.
Yes — we regularly run multiple NVQs on the same site in one set of visits, which keeps the cost per operator down and the disruption minimal.
Call or message us with your card details and category — we’ll confirm your route and price the same day.
07934 141467Diggertrainer@gmail.com · Rear Unit, Graff-City Building, Lower Monk Street, Abergavenny NP7 5LU
