Apprenticeship training course
Port operative (level 2)
Carrying out a range of tasks involving handling cargo, passengers or marine craft.
- Qualification level
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2
Equivalent to GCSE. - Typical duration
- 12 months
- Apprenticeship category
- Transport and logistics
- Maximum funding
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£8,000
Maximum amount government will fund
for apprenticeship training. - Also known as
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- Cargo operative
- Container operative
- Ferry operative
- Passenger operative
- Port operative
- Port plant operator
- Port warehousing operative
- Roll-on roll-off operative
- Stevedore
- Skills
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Skills an apprentice will learn
- Follow port sector procedures in line with sector regulations and legislation.
- Follow procedures in line with health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Identify and report hazards and risks in the workplace. Take action to mitigate hazards and risk.
- Comply with safe systems of work and apply control measures.
- Identify hazardous goods.
- Follow standard operating procedures (SOPs).
- Comply with port security measures.
- Follow instructions provided from information, for example, text, data, job card, work instructions, risk assessments, method statements, operation manuals, or permits to work.
- Use equipment and machinery.
- Follow procedures to ensure safe movement of traffic, goods, or pedestrians around the port.
- Carry out pre-operational checks.
- Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Follow techniques for waste management across the port.
- Escalate issues of concern.
- Follow equity, diversity, and inclusion principles.
- Use information systems. General data protection regulation (GDPR). Cyber security.
- Communicate in writing with others for example, colleagues and stakeholders.
- Communicate with others verbally for example, colleagues and stakeholders.
- Record or enter information - paper based or electronic.
- Apply team working and wellbeing principles.
Full information on Port operative (level 2) is available from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.
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Apprenticeship location
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