Facilities Maintenance Operations
The multi-skilled building technician: planned maintenance, minor repairs across trades, fault reporting and contractor supervision.
- Award
- Occupational Certificate
- Level
- Level 3
- Duration
- 20 weeks · 380 hours
- Delivery
- 45% online · 55% in person
- Units
- 7 units
- Intake
- Phase 01 · Kampala
Overview
Every hotel, school and office needs someone who can diagnose a fault, fix what is safely within their competence, and know exactly where that competence ends.
This programme builds that breadth — basic electrical, plumbing, carpentry and finishing work — alongside the planned maintenance and permit discipline that keeps a building compliant.
What you study
7 units · 380 notional hours. Hours shown are the notional allocation used for planning and progression.
Planned versus reactive maintenance, asset registers, service levels and helpdesks.
Risk assessment, isolation, working at height, confined spaces and permits to work.
Safe isolation, lamp and accessory replacement, fault reporting and the competence boundary.
Leaks, traps, cisterns, taps, drainage clearance and water hygiene awareness.
Door and furniture repair, fixings into different substrates, filling and decorating.
Schedules, checklists, meter readings, spares control and job records.
Briefing contractors, supervising work on site, sign-off and reporting to occupants.
How you are assessed
Practical competence is assessed in person by a qualified assessor against written criteria. No practical competence is assessed online.
Live maintenance tasks observed across at least three trade areas
Real job sheets, checklists and planned maintenance records
Unseen faults diagnosed and either resolved or correctly escalated
Recorded questioning on safety, isolation and competence limits
Entry requirements
- 18 years or older at the start of the programme
- Senior Four (UCE) or equivalent — or recognition of prior learning for maintenance workers
- Working English sufficient for job records and safety documents
- Physical capability for maintenance work
Certification
Learners receive the ASIEA award and the evidence behind it. External certification is being sought: the units, notional hours and assessment on this page are written so a certification body can map them to its own qualifications.
Where it leads
Roles shown are indicative of the sector this course is designed for, not guaranteed placements.
Next steps
Two minutes. No documents needed yet.
A guided call on fit, schedule and prior experience.
Entry evidence reviewed and a placement matched to you.
Enrolment, induction date and your learner record opened.
Phase 01 fees are published at admission. Payment plans and employer-sponsored places form part of the intended Phase 01 model.