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Institute of Advanced Technological and Commercial Studies

TP14 · Level 5

Senior Automation and Instrumentation Technician

Target occupation: industrial automation technician.

Target occupation
industrial automation technician
Level
5 — Senior technician and supervisor
Duration
12 months
Taught hours
800 h
Credits
80

Framework

Competency blocks

Each block is assessed separately and stays acquired. That is what lets you resume an interrupted path without starting over.

  1. Programmable logic controllers

    220 hours

    Architecture, programming, inputs and outputs, industrial networks

  2. Instrumentation and control

    200 hours

    Sensors, measurement, control loops, calibration

  3. Supervision and interfaces

    170 hours

    Human-machine interfaces, SCADA, historians, alarms

  4. Diagnosis and improvement

    150 hours

    Fault finding, programme modification, optimisation

  5. Professional conduct

    60 hours

    Documentation, lockout, functional safety

Questions

How is this title awarded?

Through a workplace simulation before a panel of practitioners, together with a professional portfolio recording what you actually produced. An occupation is proven by practising it, not on paper.

What employment rate do you publish?

None, and that is deliberate: no cohort has yet completed this title. The six-month employment rate is this family's own indicator, and we will publish it once a cohort has produced one — not before. An invented figure here would be the first thing an employer checks.

Senior Automation and Instrumentation Technician — IHETC