Qualifications Framework level

EQF level

European Qualifications Framework (EQF) has 8 levels (1 – the lowest, 8 – the highest).

Levels reflect the complexity level of acquired knowledge, skills and competences (learning outcomes).


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LQF level

Latvian Qualifications Framework (LQF) has 8 levels (1 – the lowest, 8 – the highest).

Levels reflect the complexity level of acquired knowledge, skills and competences (learning outcomes).

LQF covers stages of education starting from the basic education (level 1 – special basic education) to the highest education (level 8 – doctoral studies).


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Level of professional qualification
Till 1 august 2022 in Latvia had a system of five professional qualifications levels (PQL, 1 – the lowest, 5 – the highest).

PQL system covers only professional qualifications (basic education, secondary and higher education stages).

PQL reflects readiness of a person to perform work of certain stage of complexity and responsibility.
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Learning outcomes

Learning outcomes are knowledge, skills and competences acquired during a certain period of learning.

In Latvia, learning outcomes are stipulated by state education standards and occupational standards (for the professional qualifications).

Learning outcomes of higher education are defined by higher education institutions.


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– Able to perform intellectual operations at the level of knowledge, understanding, use and simple analysis.
– Uses knowledge and theoretical understanding in wide-ranging complex activities.
– Able to obtain and evaluate information independently.
– Uses wide-ranging knowledge and skills for the solution of well-formulated, but unknown and unforeseeable problems.
– Has detailed, theoretical knowledge and understanding corresponding to the professional qualification.
– Has wide-ranging skills and proficiency essential for the profession corresponding to the professional qualification.
– Able to perform the work of executor independently, including the planning and supervision of the work to be performed.
– Knows and is able to apply appropriate technologies.
– Able to apply information acquisition and processing technologies in professional activity.
– Latvian language proficiency developed and foreign language(-s) proficiency improved.
– Knows and understands links between historical developments of their county, Latvia, Europe and world.
– Able to apply mathematical knowledge and skills in professional work.
– Able to apply knowledge about the facts and laws of natural sciences in professional activity.
– Able to evaluate the processes occurring in nature and society and comprehend them in their system and development.
– Understands the principle of coherence of ecological space and observes the environmental protection requirements in professional activity.
– Understands the basic principles of market economy.
– Able to find their place in the economic structures of society and able to operate therein.
– Understands the economic relationship between employer and employee and knows the relevant legislation.
– Has a conception of the political structure of the European Union, as well as of the principles of single economic area and the mobility of the labour force.
– Evaluates their abilities adequately.
– Plans activity in compliance with circumstances, possibilities and their abilities.
– Plans time in accordance with task.
– Able to make justified choice and make a decision independently in familiar and less familiar circumstances.
– Able to answer for the quantitative and qualitative result of their professional activities, assumes partial responsibility for the work performed by others.
– Is determined, systematic and rational when working.
– Is careful and accurate.
– Able to assume initiative.

 
 
 

Transport Structures Construction Technician

  • Knowledge

    PROFESSIONAL knowledge
    At the comprehension level:
    1. Legislation and standards (LVS) of the construction industry (transport structures).
    2. Composition of the work performance design.
    3. Types of transport structures, specific features of installation.
    4. Types of construction works for transport structures.
    5. Stages of performance of construction works for transport structures.
    6. Cost estimation of construction works for transport structures.
    7. Instructions for the construction and use of the communication system.
    8. Instructions for the construction and use of electrical systems.
    9. Instructions for the construction and use of water-supply and sewage systems.
    10. Regulatory framework for accounting work time.
    11. Specific conditions for accounting of bulk cargo.
    12. Content of declarations of conformity of materials and of performance.
    13. Specific features of the construction work estimates.
    At the application level:
    1. Types, technologies and organisation of construction works
    2. Types of construction materials and construction products and technologies for their use.
    3. Designations used in the building design.
    4. Terminology of the construction industry.
    5. Designations used in the building design, cartographic and topographic symbols.
    6. Geodetic network designations for transport structures.
    7. Types and use of geodetic instruments.
    8. Types of engineering communications and their protection areas.
    9. Types, technologies and organisation of construction works and construction materials.
    10. Requirements for preparation and elaboration of documents.
    11. Types of construction materials, requirements concerning their placement, storage and application for transport structures.
    12. Technology and organisation of construction works for transport structures.
    13. Types of construction products and their applicability for transport structures.
    14. Use of construction machinery, instruments and equipment for the transport structures construction works.
    15. Technical rules for the connection of electricity and communications.
    16. Technical rules for the connection of water-supply and sewage.
    17. Types of construction materials, requirements concerning their placement, storage and application.
    18. Characteristics of construction materials and their specific features.
    19. Types of road signs and traffic equipment.
    20. Instructions for the installation of road signs and traffic equipment.
    21. Legislative framework for equipping the workplace on roads
    22. Road traffic regulations.
    23. Cartographic and topographic symbols.
    24. Use of geodetic instruments with a technical precision class.
    25. Specialised geodetic software applications.
    26. Cartographic and topographic symbols.
    27. Use of geodetic instruments with a technical precision class.
    28. Requirements for equipping the workplace of engineering personnel.
    29. Hygiene requirements in construction.
    30. Construction technology.
    31. Types and technologies of use of construction machinery and work tools.
    32. Applicability of construction products and construction materials for transport structures.
    33. Construction technologies for transport structures.
    34. Types of accounts of work time.
    35. Types of measuring devices and their use.
    36. Methods for measuring the amount of the works performed.
    37. Applicability of construction products and construction materials for transport structures.
    38. Methods for the assessment of quality and conformity of construction products and construction materials.
    39. Legal regulations on laboratory testing of quality and conformity of construction materials.
    40. Documents proving the conformity of construction materials.
    41. Measuring devices and quality control devices and their use.
    42. Legal regulations on testing of quality and conformity of construction materials.
    43. Systems for the assessment of conformity of construction materials.
    44. Characteristics of construction materials for transport structures.
    45. Basic principles of statistical evaluation.
    46. Types and use of measuring instruments and measuring devices.
    47. Types of the materials accompanying documents.
    48. Requirements for preparation and elaboration of documents.
    49. Cartographic and topographic symbols.
    50. Laws and regulations for the performance of hidden works.
    51. Basics of technical drawing.
    52. Requirements for elaboration of construction volume certificates.
    53. Requirements for making up the building site’s volumes containing executable documentation.
    GENERAL knowledge
    At the concept level:
    1. Legal relations.
    2. Legal provisions specified in the Constitution of the Republic of Latvia in the view of a society subject to the rule of law and a civil society.
    3. Organisation of the labour protection system
    4. Principles of planning and decision-making.
    At the comprehension level:
    1. Vocabulary, grammar, and language functions of the official language and foreign language, types of verbal interaction. Styles, characteristics of intonation, and the versatility of communication of the official language and foreign language in different contexts.
    2. Laws and regulations regarding information technologies.
    3. Operating principles of computer and office equipment.
    4. Rights, obligations, and liability of an individual.
    5. Key issues of labour law.
    6. Essence of the civil society.
    7. Team creation.
    8. Principles for promoting cooperation.
    9. Role of employee motivation and talent management for enhancing the work quality
    At the application level:
    1. Official language.
    2. One foreign language.
    3. Intercultural interaction.
    4. Mathematical methods and tools.
    5. Mathematical calculations and work with tables.
    6. Application software according to the work task.
    7. Working with office equipment.
    8. Information systems security.
    9. Computer security software.
    10. Data protection measures.
    11. Contents of the employment contract.
    12. Fire safety and electrical safety requirements at the workplace.
    13. Labour protection requirements at the workplace.
    14. Types of personal and collective protective equipment and its use.
    15. Monitoring of the technical condition of protective resources and safety appliances.
    16. Ergonomic work practices and equipment.
    17. Groups of health risk factors, their effects, measures to prevent and mitigate risks.
    18. Environmental protection requirements in the relevant sector.
    19. Environmental protection measures, means to implement them.
    20. Action in the event of various hazards.
    21. Principles of the ABC scheme and its use.
    22. Methods and means of providing first aid.
    23. Health condition requirements for the performance of specific work duties.
    24. Groups of health risk factors, their effects, measures to prevent and mitigate risks.
    25. Preventive measures for the prevention of occupational risk factors.
    26. Activities to promote health at the workplace.
    27. Time planning techniques.
    28. Effective communication and collaboration techniques.
    29. Business communication process.
    30. Learning strategies.
    31. Self-assessment principles.

  • Skills

    PROFESSIONAL skills
    1. To read the building design.
    2. To recognize designations in technical drawings.
    3. To inspect engineering communications on-site.
    4. To read cartographic and topographical documentation.
    5. To recognise the temporary geodetic network of the transport structure’s building site.
    6. To use the technical geodetic tools in an accurate manner
    7. To coordinate excavation and other work permissions in the responsible institutions.
    8. To inform the land owners on commencement of construction works.
    9. To take part in selection of technologies and methods for the construction of a transport structure.
    10. To plan locations for materials on the transport structure’s site.
    11. To determine work technologies, labour intensity and deadlines
    12. To identify the necessary material and technical resources.
    13. To determine the allocation of resources of construction products according to the determined stages of work execution.
    14. To identify the sequence of the interrelated works on site.
    15. To participate in site planning meetings.
    16. To get the executors acquainted with the applicable construction practices and methods (including
    17. use of construction machinery, tools and equipment).
    18. To identify types of connection of the necessary engineering communications and the procedure for their use.
    19. To prepare temporary infrastructure for communication facilities and electricity connection.
    20. To prepare temporary infrastructure for water-supply and sewage connection.
    21. To determine the maintenance procedure for access roads.
    22. To determine the procedure for traffic management.
    23. To apply traffic management according to the approved scheme.
    24. To find geodetic control points on site.
    25. To provide control network points.
    26. To register control network points in the executable documentation.
    27. To make the necessary calculations to outline the parameters of the transport structure.
    28. To execute the outlined parameters of the transport structure.
    29. To organise installation of the mobile office and mobile residential modules and their connection to engineering communication.
    30. To organise installation of the elements of equipment required to meet sanitary, fire safety, and electrical safety requirements.
    31. To select the work force and technical resources to perform the work.
    32. To rationally use technical and work force resources.
    33. To identify necessary and technology-compatible construction materials, construction products, mechanisms and equipment.
    34. To control the performance of works according to the task given.
    35. To organise relocation of construction materials and construction products on site.
    36. To coordinate own actions with other persons involved in the process.
    37. To record the working time of the performers of construction works.
    38. To draw up reports on the working time of the performers of construction works.
    39. To measure the construction works performed.
    40. To calculate the volume of the construction works performed.
    41. To record the measurements and volume calculations.
    42. To assess the conformity of the construction works performed to the quality requirements.
    43. To assess the compliance of construction products and construction materials to the requirements specified in the building design.
    44. To correct inconsistencies appeared during the work performance process.
    45. To participate in sampling and/or testing of construction materials.
    46. To record the process of quality and conformity testing of construction materials.
    47. To evaluate the scope of inconsistencies and their significance.
    48. To report the test results to the manager.
    49. To assess material conformity to the accompanying documents.
    50. To keep records of the amount of construction material.
    51. To prepare reports on the flow of construction materials.
    52. To check the conformity of the quality documents to the materials supplied.
    53. To systematise the materials accompanying documents
    54. To read the design and executable schemes.
    55. To compare the sizes designed and built.
    56. To draw up hidden works reports and opinions.
    57. To draw up supplements to the hidden works reports.
    58. To count the presentable and constructed volumes.
    59. To record the presentable volumes in the construction works certificate.
    60. To arrange the executable documentation in the order specified.
    61. To submit the executable documentation to the manager for coordination.
    GENERAL Skills
    1. To communicate in the official language.
    2. To communicate in one foreign language both orally and in writing.
    3. To make correlations.
    4. To model the procedure regarding the solution of the planned task.
    5. To process information purposefully by selecting the most appropriate solution.
    6. To exchange information in a responsible manner.
    7. To take data protection measures.
    8. To independently draw up documents and organise the document flow by means of the appropriate software.
    9. To independently find the necessary information in the internet resources and data storage devices.
    10. To perform critical evaluation of information reliability.
    11. To comply with labour law.
    12. To comply with the company’s internal labour regulations.
    13. To be aware of own responsibility in view of the civil society.
    14. To conscientiously carry out work as specified in the job description.
    15. To control safe use of electrical equipment.
    16. To control compliance with fire safety regulations.
    17. To organise the workplace in compliance with the labour protection requirements.
    18. To ensure the use of protective equipment.
    19. To monitor the compliance of protective equipment.
    20. To use environmentally friendly technology.
    21. To take measures to reduce the consumption of energy and other resources and amount of waste.
    22. To assess the emergency situation.
    23. To organise prevention of causes of accidents.
    24. To provide first aid.
    25. To assess the relationship between mental overload, physical and mental health.
    26. To control own health and the impact of environmental risk factors on it.
    27. To assess the effects of environmental risk factors on health.
    28. To work in a team by being aware of own responsibility when performing a joint task.
    29. To plan own time and the time of the team in a reasonable manner.
    30. To communicate with the persons and institutions involved in the work process.
    31. To assess own professional experience and career development options.
    32. To perform critical assessment of the obtained information and use it when carrying out the professional activity.
    33. To use different learning strategies.

  • Competences/ autonomy

    PROFESSIONAL competences
    1. Ability to comprehend the building design, technical schemes, legislation of the construction industry and standards for transport structures.
    2. Ability to determine the precise location of the transport structure in-situ and assess the current condition of the structure.
    3. Ability to coordinate permissions for excavation works and other works under a particular building design.
    4. Ability to link the preliminary plan of the transport structure to the planning of resources.
    5. Ability to plan the resources in an efficient manner in compliance with the construction standards, the amount of the work to be carried out, and the actual situation on site.
    6. Ability to ensure the consequent performance of the interrelated works on the transport structure’s site according to the project.
    7. Ability to independently organise the required temporary infrastructure to perform the transport structure construction works and maintenance works on sites.
    8. Ability to efficiently plan and allocate material and technical resources on site.
    9. Ability to independently organise and maintain traffic on sites where transport structure construction works and maintenance works are performed.
    10. Ability to organise the creation of a geodetic control network on the transport structure site using geodetic and other measuring devices and instruments.
    11. Ability to manage and supervise transport structure measuring and demarcation works on site according to the building design.
    12. Ability to organise the installation of the building site’s necessary equipment elements and their connection to communications in compliance with hygiene, fire safety and electrical safety requirements.
    13. Ability to organise the transport structures construction works rationally using the resources available to perform the works according to the chosen type of work technology.
    14. Ability to ensure the course of technological processes for construction of the transport structure.
    15. Ability to record the working time of the performers of construction works on the transport structure’s site in accordance with the specified type of working time recording.
    16. Ability to assess the amount and quality of the works performed and correct inconsistencies appeared during the work performance process.
    17. Ability to organise and assess laboratory testing of quality and conformity of construction materials.
    18. Ability to precisely account of construction materials by selecting appropriate measuring instruments and calculation methods.
    19. Ability to compile and systematise documents certifying the quantity and quality of the materials supplied.
    20. Ability to to verify the compliance of the executable scheme with to the designed documentation, keeping records of the permissible tolerances.
    21. Ability to draw up hidden works reports in accordance with the regulatory framework.
    22. Ability to prepare a precise and justified construction volume certificate.
    23. Ability to to prepare the building’s site executable documentation in a timely manner and maintain the flow of requested documents.
    GENERAL competencies
    1. Ability to communicate in the official language both orally and in writing.
    2. Ability to communicate in one foreign language.
    3. Ability to use mathematical thinking when modelling work situations and planning the performance of the work task.
    4. Ability to use and select, in a confident and safe manner, information and communication technologies to perform the work task.
    5. Ability to comply with the employment relationship provisions.
    6. Ability to supervise fire safety and electrical safety requirements at the workplace.
    7. Ability to supervise the implementation of the labour protection measures on site.
    8. Ability to fulfil work tasks in accordance with the environmental protection requirements.
    9. Ability to act responsibly in emergency situations and provide first aid if needed.
    10. Ability to take responsibility for working abilities by assessing health risk factors.
    11. Ability to identify the adverse effects of the work conditions on health
    12. Ability to be effectively involved in teamwork.
    13. Ability to independently plan time by fulfilling the task individually or in a team.
    14. Ability to collaborate with the persons and institutions involved in the work process.
    15. Ability to plan and take decisions upon development of professional career.

Road Construction Technician

  • Knowledge

    1. The knowledge necessary for performance of the basic tasks of the professional activity at the level of notion:
    1.1. basics of business;
    1.2. geology;
    1.3. conformity assessment order of construction products;
    1.4. basic principles of sustainable construction;
    1.5. environment accessibility;
    1.6. economics.
    2. The knowledge necessary for performance of the basic tasks of the professional activity at the level of understanding:
    2.1. usage of building machines, main technical parameters;
    2.2. construction work cost structure;
    2.3. construction drawing and technical designations;
    2.4. dangerous mechanisms;
    2.5. construction laws and regulations;
    2.6. design software;
    2.7. waste collection technology;
    2.8. basics of communication;
    2.9. professional terms in the official language and in one foreign language.
    3. The knowledge necessary for performance of the basic tasks of the professional activity at the level of use:
    3.1. duties, rights and responsibilities of the construction participants;
    3.2. road traffic rules;
    3.3. laws and regulations regarding work place arrangement on roads;
    3.4. road construction materials;
    3.5. road construction technologies;
    3.6. geodesic technical accuracy class instruments, their usage;
    3.7. construction drawing;
    3.8. specifications and standards of the road building design;
    3.9. construction work organization plans;
    3.10. road and bridge maintenance work specifications;
    3.11. browsers;
    3.12. office applications software;
    3.13. labour protection instructions, means and its use;
    3.14. fire safety rules, fire extinguishing means and their use;
    3.15. first aid;
    3.16. standards of legal employment relations;
    3.17. requirements and technologies of the environmental protection laws and regulations;
    3.18. official language;
    3.19. one foreign language at the level of professional communication;
    3.20. basic principles of professional and general ethics.

  • Skills

    1. To have a good knowledge of the project documentation and other binding standards.
    2. To use road construction technologies.
    3. To use rating principles of labour force, necessary mechanisms, materials and other resources.
    4. To use office application software.
    5. To have good knowledge of the internal structure and document circulation procedures at the construction company.
    6. To have knowledge of the work organization project of the construction object.
    7. Use the construction object specifications.
    8. To communicate with the involved and interested parties and institutions in the implementation of the project.
    9. To understand traffic organization, road building design preparation, coordination and implementation sequence at the construction object.
    10. To understand general construction management organisation, know the duties, rights and responsibilities of the construction participants during the construction process.
    11. To know the characteristics and qualities of the materials to be used in the road construction.
    12. To understand the geological characteristics of the quarries attached to a particular road construction obbject.
    13. To use safe and rational quarry output technologies.
    14. To maintain and protect a temporary geodetic support network of the road construction object, as well as to renew it in case of damage.
    15. To observe the of work performance schedule and amount.
    16. To assess the resources necessary for the road construction, current employee’s qualification and performance of the practically available technological resources, as well as rationally organize it in the work process.
    17. To nderstand the impact of external conditions on the work productivity and quality.
    18. To deal with technical class geodetic instruments of a technical class, perform their inspection and adjustment;
    19. To control qualities of materials and their conformity with the building project before and during the deposition process.
    20. To use the express methods of work quality control.
    21. To act accordingly in case of detected technological violations, work quality or any other discrepancies.
    22. To know the requirements of the road construction specification, quality index value and allowed indents.
    23. To fill in the necessary documents.
    24. To know regulatory  road maintenance requirements.
    25. To use the materials utilized in theroad construction according to the weather conditions and road construction condition.
    26. To organize road maintenance, make independent decisions and act according to the changing weather conditions.
    27. To observe and analyse the condition peculiarities of the managed roads and their significance independently in choosing technical means and materials for road maintenance.
    28. To act operatively in non-standard situations.
    29. To se the traffic organisation project of the road construction site.
    30. To assess if the organised traffic movement arrangement corresponds to the project and ensure prevention of discrepancies.
    31. To perform inspection of the daily traffic movement organization condition and if it corresponds to the movement organization scheme.
    32. To provide the first aid, use means and methods of the first aid.
    33. To assess danger of accidents and possible consequences.
    34. To know and assess environmental protection factors.
    35. To observe the requirements of the environmental protection laws and regulations.
    36. To apply quality testing methods of materials and structural elements.
    37. To use sampling procedures of materials and structural elements for quality testing.
    38. To know the penalties and  responsibility of the employees in case of quality discrepancy.
    39. To know the final assessment principles of the completed road construction site.
    40. To assess the consequences of the allowed discrepancies and ensure their prevention.
    41. To accept the corrected construction works.
    42. To prepare the necessary documentation for commissioning of the road construction object.
    43. To identify hazardous waste, organize its collection.
    44. To understand the principles of environmental protection and manage them.
    45. To know labour protection organization and complex of events  at the site.
    46. To observe requirements of employment regulations and ensure their implementation.
    47. To identify and analyse labour protection and the problems of ensuring safe working methods at a particular road construction site.
    48. To organize preventive measures for risk elimination.
    49. To observe and organize fulfilment of the fire safety requirements  
    50. To se professional development opportunities in the field and acquire latest industry tendencies (materials, technologies and their use).
    51. To analyse, select and use the obtained knowledge in every day work.
    52. To communicate with other construction participants and justify own views.
    53. To have a good command of the official language.
    54. To have a good command of one foreign language at the level of communication.
    55. To organize work independently, analyse the work process and be responsible for the result of the own work
    56. To observe standards of the legal employment relations.
    57. To observe the basic principles of professional and general ethics.
    58. To use professional terminology in the official language and in one foreign language.

  • Competences/ autonomy

    1. Ability to understand the construction design, technical schemes and standards.
    2. Ability to organize and perform road construction works according to the building design, construction work organization project, other technical documentation, principles of sustainable building and the set requirements of quality, laws and regulations.
    3. Ability to be aware of the requirements of the building design and general specifications of materials, as well as available materials for a particular road construction project.
    4. Ability to communicate with the persons involved in building design, as well with state and local authorities and other institutions interested in theimplementation of the project.
    5. Ability to ensure the work process in accordance with the project implementation schedule by using the necessary labour force, materials and technical resources.
    6. Ability to ensure fulfilment of the quality requirements.
    7. Ability to apply the requirements of specifications to the used materials and structural elements, as well as choose appropriate testing methods.
    8. Ability to consider the assessment methods of the completed road construction site and its use, ensure objective evaluation of the work performance.
    9. Ability to obtain the necessary information and use it in practice.
    10. Ability to apply sampling and testing procedures.
    11. Ability to prepare the necessary documentation for commissioning of the road construction site.
    12. Ability to assess the consequences of uncomformities, ensure their prevention and accept the corrected construction works.
    13. Ability to know critical and non-standard situations, as well as make the necessary decisions.
    14. Ability to assess work safety risks and organise preventive measures to address them.
    15. Ability to provide the first aid.
    16. Ability to observe standards of the legal employment relations.
    17. Ability to identify threat in the field of environmental protection and to organize timely measures to prevent them.
    18. Ability to use safe working practices and observe requirements of the labour protection, fire safety and environmental laws and regulations.
    19. Ability to perform the work individually and to be responsible for the own work result.
    20. Ability to use professional terminology in the official language and in one foreign language.
    21. Ability to communicate in the official language and in one foreign language.

Construction worker

Roads Construction Worker

  • Knowledge

    PROFESSIONAL knowledge:
    At the concept level:
    1. Rules for installing road signs and traffic equipment.
    2. Regulatory framework for equipping the workplace on roads.
    3. Basics of geodesy.
    4. Basics of geodesy (support system, geodetic point, surveying, and demarcation). Types of construction materials.
    5. Structural layers of the road.
    6. Pavement types and construction technologies.
    7. Types of means of mechanisation, specificity of works.
    8. Pavement types and construction technologies.
    9. Regulatory framework for equipping the workplace on roads.
    10. Types of bitumen/ mastic.
    11. Structure of water discharge systems.
    At the comprehension level:
    1. Types of road signs and traffic equipment.
    2. Sawing techniques.
    3. Geometric parameters of ditches.
    4. Subgrade construction work technology.
    5. Types of geosynthetic materials and their laying technologies.
    6. Types of biodegradable materials and their laying technologies.
    7. Types and use of materials for the construction of the frost resistant (drainage) and bearing layer.
    8. Types of aggregates and their embedding technologies.
    9. Types of chippings and binders, their embedding technologies.
    10. Rules and technology for installing the equipment of stops. Cartographic and drawing designations.
    11. Location of the equipment at the stop.
    12. Traffic organisation scheme.
    13. Road sign placement scheme.
    14. Technical specification of horizontal markers.
    15. Rules for installing road signs and traffic equipment.
    16. Geometric parameters of the pit to be repaired.
    17. Geometric parameters of asphalt concrete road pavement.
    18. Geometric parameters of the construction of the profile bed.
    19. Geometric parameters of the construction of the road carriageway and shoulder.
    20. Structure and operating principles of work tools intended for roadworks.
    21. Structure, performance, and operating principles of the means of small-scale mechanisation intended for roadworks.
    22. Types of work tools intended for roadworks.
    23. Selection of repair materials.
    At the application level:
    1. Technology for installing fencing elements.
    2. Manual work tools and instruments, types and application of means of small-scale mechanisation.
    3. Types of structures and pavements, their disassembly technologies.
    4. Strapping works.
    5. Use of measuring instruments.
    6. Types of construction materials, requirements for their placement, storage, and securing.
    7. Technologies and techniques for securing ditch gutters and slopes.
    8. Sequence and technologies of performing culvert installation, repair, and cleaning works.
    9. Sealing instruments and technologies.
    10. Technology for slope securing works.
    11. Lawn sowing technology.
    12. Types of water discharge elements.
    13. Technology for installing and cleaning water discharge elements.
    14. Types and technologies of priming works.
    15. Auxiliary work for laying the pavement.
    16. Geometric parameters of the construction of road shoulders.
    17. Types of cobblestone pavements and their construction technologies.
    18. Types of the equipment of stops.
    19. Technology, instruments to be used, and materials for securing the height markings for the installation of the concrete curb.
    20. Rules for installing road signs and traffic equipment.
    21. Rules, technology, and types of installation of signal poles.
    22. Scheme of installing signal poles.
    23. Geometric parameters of the installation of safety barriers and fences.
    24. Technologies and types of the installation of safety barriers and fences.
    25. Road surface cleaning methods and technology.
    26. Technology of applying markings.
    27. Types of marking materials.
    28. Types of traffic organisation means.
    29. Labour protection requirements for work on the road.
    30. Types of bitumen/ mastic and aggregates and their embedding technologies.
    31. Types of cold asphalt.
    32. Cold asphalt embedding technologies.
    33. Types of hot asphalt and emulsions. Technologies for embedding hot asphalt and emulsions.
    34. Types of grinding equipment and their use.
    35. Types of absorbents and their application.
    36. Lawn mowing technologies.
    37. Technologies for cleaning water discharge systems.
    38. Types of repair materials. Technologies for embedding repair materials.
    39. Types of materials of road structural elements.
    40. Technologies for embedding materials of road structural elements.
    41. Types of disinfectants and their use.
    42. Snow clearing technologies.
    43. Differences in the use and maintenance of engine motors. Operating principles of engines.
    44. Types of manual work tools and instructions for their use.
    45. Types of means of small-scale mechanisation and instructions for their use.
    46. Basic principles of sharpening.
    47. Use of grinding wheel.
    48. Types of lubricants and their use.
    49. Selection and application of repair instruments.
    50. Structure and operation of motor-operated instruments.
    51. Operation of electrical/ battery-operated instruments.
    52. Operation of internal combustion engines.
    53. Principles of use of manual, motor-operated, electrical, and battery-operated equipment intended for roadworks.
    54. Maintenance of work tools, intended for roadworks, before/after work.
    55. Conditions for the storage of work tools intended for roadworks.
    56. Charging and storage of batteries.
    GENERAL knowledge:
    At the concept level:
    1. Laws and regulations regarding employment legal relationship.
    2. Laws and regulations regarding labour protection, electrical and fire safety, and nature and environmental protection. Essence of sustainable development.
    At the comprehension level:
    1. Vocabulary.
    2. Grammar and language functions.
    3. Types of verbal interaction. Language styles and characteristics of intonation. Diversity of language and communication in different contexts.
    4. Safety signals and signs. Work environment risk factors and assessment methods.
    5. Electrical and fire safety. Working conditions and human health as a precondition for life quality.
    6. Promotion of health at the workplace.
    At the application level:
    1. Official language.
    2. Calculation.
    3. Units of measurement and shapes.
    4. Mathematical terminology.
    5. Techniques for safe filling of internal combustion engine fuels and oils.
    6. Use of biodegradable oils and fuels.
    7. Correct filling, transportation, and storage of motor-operated instruments, fuels, and oils.
    8. Elimination of the consequences of emergencies.
    9. Application and types of personal and collective protective work equipment.
    10. Control of the technical condition of safety devices.
    11. Safe work practices.
    12. Principles of professional interaction.
    13. Provision of first aid.
    14. Basics of ergonomics.
    15. Safe and ergonomic work practices.
    16. Groups of risk factors affecting health, their effect, preventive measures to reduce risks.

  • Skills

    PROFESSIONAL skills:
    1. To select the necessary technical means of traffic organisation.
    2. To read the traffic organisation scheme.
    3. To place the technical means of traffic organisation.
    4. To secure the technical means of traffic organisation.
    5. To regulate transport movement according to the instructions of the work manager.
    6. To install temporary fencing elements.
    7. To perform auxiliary works for preparing the workplace.
    8. To maintain the territory of the workplace in order.
    9. To recognise the types of structures and pavements.
    10. To choose the appropriate instruments and disassembly technologies.
    11. To disassemble structures and pavements.
    12. To arrange the disassembly site.
    13. To choose the sawing technique and instruments.
    14. To assess risk factors in completing a task.
    15. To saw trees, shrubs, and branches.
    16. To utilise the useless materials.
    17. To pile the wood to be used in a stack.
    18. To measure structures and pavements.
    19. To place auxiliary equipment of demarcation.
    20. To unload construction materials.
    21. To load construction materials.
    22. To relocate construction materials at the site.
    23. To account the materials in stowages and embedding sites.
    24. To excavate ditches.
    25. To clean the existing ditches by removing earth drifts, periphyton, and other foreign objects.
    26. To secure ditch gutters and slopes.
    27. To clear culverts and their inlet and outlet beds from drifts or clogging.
    28. To restore the functional condition of culvert elements.
    29. To replace the damaged culvert elements.
    30. To install culverts.
    31. To prepare the subgrade base.
    32. To perform subgrade compacting works.
    33. To keep track of the geometric parameters of the constructed layer.
    34. To deliver the geosynthetic materials to their embedding site.
    35. To embed geosynthetic materials.
    36. To secure geosynthetic materials.
    37. To embed planting soil on the slope.
    38. To lay geosynthetic and biodegradable materials.
    39. To sow lawn.
    40. To clean water discharge elements and wells.
    41. To install water discharge elements and wells.
    42. To prepare the base.
    43. To seal non-bonded structural layers.
    44. To keep track of the geometric parameters of the layer to be constructed.
    45. To clear the surface to be primed from dust, unbound particles, and foreign objects.
    46. To apply the appropriate layer of bitumen binder.
    47. To lay asphalt compounds in small areas.
    48. To perform auxiliary works for laying pavement, assisting the means of mechanisation.
    49. To seal asphalt layers.
    50. To embed aggregates on the road shoulder.
    51. To profile the road shoulder.
    52. To seal the road shoulder.
    53. To prepare the smoothing layer.
    54. To lay pavement.
    55. To wedge spaces between the elements of the laid pavement.
    56. To seal the laid pavement.
    57. To clear the road surface.
    58. To service the chipping spreader.
    59. To perform surface post-treatment works.
    60. To choose the elements of the equipment of stops.
    61. To install the necessary elements.
    62. To bring the necessary materials with manual work tools.
    63. To carry up the necessary materials.
    64. To prepare the foundation of the concrete curb.
    65. To install the concrete curb.
    66. To select the required road signs in the warehouse.
    67. To install road signs according to the work task,
    68. To choose the required signal poles in the warehouse.
    69. To install signal poles according to the technical specification.
    70. To select the appropriate safety barriers and fences at the object.
    71. To replace the damaged safety barriers and fences.
    72. To install safety barriers and fences.
    73. To clear the surface to be painted.
    74. To mark the pavement surface.
    75. To place temporary means of traffic organisation.
    76. To apply marking.
    77. To remove the fencing of the workplace.
    78. To place temporary technical means of traffic organisation.
    79. To relocate the means of traffic organisation required to perform work.
    80. To clear the fissure to be repaired from dirt.
    81. To embed the bitumen emulsion/ mastic in the road pavement.
    82. To cover a fissure with aggregates.
    83. To wipe off the excessive aggregates.
    84. To arrange the road surface.
    85. To clear the pit to be repaired from dirt.
    86. To embed aggregates and bitumen emulsion.
    87. To cover the repaired surface with aggregates.
    88. To wipe off the excessive aggregates and arrange the road surface.
    89. To clear the pit to be repaired from dirt.
    90. To embed cold asphalt concrete.
    91. To compact cold asphalt concrete.
    92. To saw out the pit to be repaired.
    93. To prime the surface of the pit to be repaired.
    94. To embed hot asphalt concrete.
    95. To compact cold asphalt concrete.
    96. To grind the pavement.
    97. To collect the ground material.
    98. To wipe the pavement.
    99. To transport the ground material for its utilisation.
    100. To prepare the workplace.
    101. To create profile bed.
    102. To embed aggregates in depressions or potholes.
    103. To arrange the road carriageway.
    104. To collect waste and other foreign items.
    105. To clean the pavement by removing dirt, oils, mud and/or drifts.
    106. To secure the existing road signs and vertical markers.
    107. To cut grass and shrub sprouts.
    108. To remove the cut grass and shrub sprouts from road structures.
    109. To disperse grass and shrub sprouts along the road right-of-way.
    110. To clean water discharge systems of roads and bridges.
    111. To collect drifts.
    112. To prepare the damaged area.
    113. To embed repair materials.
    114. To prepare the wash-out area for filling.
    115. To embed the washed out or brought material.
    116. To clean up the washed out area and the affected territory.
    117. To evaluate the accident situation.
    118. To clear the carriageway from a dead animal body.
    119. To organise the utilisation of a dead animal body.
    120. To clear snow from pedestrian and bicycle paths, road overpasses, and public transport stops.
    121. To load snow for its removal.
    122. To apply work tools in accordance with the instructions of the manufacturer.
    123. To choose work tools for the specific roadwork.
    124. To perform thorough check of the technical condition of work tools.
    125. To sharpen cutting instruments.
    126. To oil work tools.
    127. To care for work tools and the means of small-scale mechanisation.
    128. To place the work tools, instruments and mechanisms in a temporary storage area.
    129. To maintain optimum oil level in the engine block or oil tank.
    130. To maintain optimum air filter condition.
    131. To replace the air filters and blades.
    132. To sharpen cutting surfaces.
    133. To oil mechanical linkages.
    134. To start motor-operated and electrical instruments.
    135. To assess the need for daily or more extensive repairs.
    136. To charge batteries of electrical instruments.
    137. To prepare the work tools for storage.
    138. To place the work tools for storage.
    GENERAL skills:
    1. To communicate in the official language.
    2. To substantiate the solution to a task mathematically.
    3. To apply the basic mathematical principles and techniques.
    4. To apply the norms of employment legal relationship.
    5. To organise own workplace in compliance with labour protection, electrical and fire safety, and environmental protection requirements.
    6. To comply with the requirements for the use of motor-operated instruments.
    7. To refrain from polluting environment with fuels, oils or other operating fluids.
    8. To act in the event of electrical damages and electrical injuries in compliance with the requirements of laws and regulations.
    9. To choose the appropriate personal protective work equipment and safety devices.
    10. To keep track of the technical condition of the protective work equipment and safety devices.
    11. To use the ABC method to prevent the most critical conditions and preserve and sustain life.
    12. To provide first aid in occupational accidents.
    13. To control work practices.
    14. To select own appropriate work instruments.
    15. To evaluate the relation between mental overload and physical and psychological health.
    16. To assess own health risk factors.

  • Competences/ autonomy

    PROFESSIONAL competences:
    1. Ability to install the technical means of traffic organisation according to the traffic organisation scheme.
    2. Ability to maintain the workplace in order and bring it in order after finishing the works.
    3. Ability to perform the works for disassembling structures and the existing pavements, choosing the appropriate instruments and technologies.
    4. Ability to perform works for sawing trees, shrubs, and branches, choosing the appropriate instruments and techniques.
    5. Ability to perform auxiliary surveying and demarcation works at the object under the supervision of a specialist.
    6. Ability to perform construction material logistics works, applying ergonomic work practices.
    7. Ability to excavate, clean, and secure ditches according to the intended structural solution.
    8. Ability to install, repair, and clean culverts according to the technical solution.
    9. Ability to perform auxiliary works for the construction of the subgrade, ensuring the geometric parameters of the layer to be constructed.
    10. Ability to lay geosynthetic materials according to the laying technology.
    11. Ability to perform works for securing slopes, applying the appropriate technologies.
    12. Ability to construct water discharge elements, applying the appropriate technology.
    13. Ability to construct non-bonded structural layers according to the geometric parameters of the layers to be constructed.
    14. Ability to prime the base and pavement layers according to priming technologies.
    15. Ability to construct non-bonded structural layers according to the appropriate construction technology.
    16. Ability to fill road shoulders according to the geometric parameters of shoulders.
    17. Ability to construct concrete and cobbled natural stone pavement according to the appropriate technology.
    18. Ability to perform surface treatment, applying the appropriate materials and technologies.
    19. Ability to perform works for the installation of the equipment of stops according to the work task.
    20. Ability to prepare and install the concrete curb, applying ergonomic work practices.
    21. Ability to perform works for the installation of road signs according to the traffic organisation scheme.
    22. Ability to install road signal poles according to the traffic organisation scheme.
    23. Ability to perform works for the installation of safety barriers and fences according to the geometric parameters.
    24. Ability to apply the horizontal road markers i according to the traffic organisation scheme.
    25. Ability to install the temporary technical means of traffic organisation in accordance with the regulatory framework for equipping the workplace on roads.
    26. Ability to fill road pavement fissures in accordance with the requirements of the technical specification.
    27. Ability to fill pits with bitumen emulsion and chippings in accordance with the requirements of the technical specification.
    28. Ability to fill pits with cold asphalt concrete in accordance with the requirements of the technical specification.
    29. Ability to fill pits with hot asphalt concrete, using full technology and in accordance with the requirements of the technical specification.
    30. Ability to perform auxiliary works for smooth grinding of the asphalt concrete pavement.
    31. Ability to repair unbound aggregate pavement depressions and potholes in accordance with the requirements of the technical specification.
    32. Ability to bring the carriageway and road right-of-way in order, ensuring road traffic safety.
    33. Ability to cut grass and shrub sprouts, using the appropriate instruments, mechanisms, and technologies.
    34. Ability to perform works for cleaning water discharge systems of roads and bridges, ensuring their proper functioning.
    35. Ability to repair minor damages to reinforced concrete structures of culverts and bridges/ tunnels according to the technical specification.
    36. Technologies of embedding materials of road structural elements.
    37. Ability to organise the clearing of the carriageway from dead animals according to the technical specification.
    38. Ability to perform snow clearing works accurately and carefully, using the appropriate snow clearing technologies.
    39. Ability to learn and apply the principles of operation and use of work tools intended for roadworks and safe work practices in accordance with the instructions of the manufacturer.
    40. Ability to select the most effective/ appropriate work tool to complete the specific work task of roadwork.
    41. Ability to maintain the work tools in working order by making minor repair works, if necessary.
    42. Ability to apply work tools for the completion of the work task safely and efficiently.
    43. Ability to prepare and place for storage the work tools intended for roadworks by assessing the storage conditions and retaining their operability throughout the entire period of storage.
    GENERAL competences:
    1. Ability to communicate in the official language both orally and in writing.
    2. Ability to apply mathematical thinking to complete a work task.
    3. Ability to complete work tasks, maintaining good health condition and complying with the labour protection, electrical and fire safety, and environmental protection requirements.
    4. Ability to perform works, using motor-operated instruments responsibly and avoiding possible environmental pollution.
    5. Ability to responsibly and independently use personal and collective protective equipment and safety devices, keeping up with their technical condition.
    6. Ability to provide first aid.
    7. Ability to use ergonomic work practices and inventory.
    8. Ability to assume responsibility for own working abilities by assessing health risk factors.

Qualification acquisition requirements

Previous education
Certificate of general basic education
Ways to acquire 
Qualifications can be acquired in the framework of education programs or in the evaluation and recognition of non-formal knowledge, skills and competences acquired (in vocational education LKI Levels 2-4).
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Formal (through education programmes)
Duration of study 
Duration of qualification in full-time studies
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4 years
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Qualification document

Awarding body

Type of awarding bodies:

- Smiltene Technical School

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Qualifications Framework level

EQF level

European Qualifications Framework (EQF) has 8 levels (1 – the lowest, 8 – the highest).

Levels reflect the complexity level of acquired knowledge, skills and competences (learning outcomes).


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LQF level

Latvian Qualifications Framework (LQF) has 8 levels (1 – the lowest, 8 – the highest).

Levels reflect the complexity level of acquired knowledge, skills and competences (learning outcomes).

LQF covers stages of education starting from the basic education (level 1 – special basic education) to the highest education (level 8 – doctoral studies).


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Level of professional qualification

Till 1 august 2022 in Latvia had a system of five professional qualifications levels (PQL, 1 – the lowest, 5 – the highest).

PQL system covers only professional qualifications (basic education, secondary and higher education stages).

PQL reflects readiness of a person to perform work of certain stage of complexity and responsibility.


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LQF PQ level:

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Theoretical and practical training corresponding to the LQF levels, characterized by the learning outcomes that can be achieved at the relevant level, which gives the opportunity to perform work corresponding to a certain level of complexity and responsibility.
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Qualification field, stage and type

Thematic field (ISCED 2013)
International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) developed by UNESCO.
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Architecture and construction (073)

Detailed field: (ISCED 2013)

Building and civil engineering (0732)

Education
Stages of Latvian education system included in the LQF:
- basic education
- secondary education
- higher education
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Secondary education

Qualification type
ITypes of Latvian education:
-General education
-Professional education
-Academic education
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Vocational

Full or partial

Full qualification

Sector Qualifications Structure: Construction sector

Kvalifikācijas tips:
Base qualification:
Connected to: DIPLOMA OF VOCATIONAL SECONDARY EDUCATION with professional qualification: Road Construction Technician , DIPLOMA OF VOCATIONAL SECONDARY EDUCATION with professional qualification: Road Construction Technician , Certificate of professional qualification: Building Structure Assembler , Certificate of professional qualification: Building Assembler with Specialisation Metal Structure Assembler; Reinforced Concrete Constructions Assembler; Glazed Construction Assembler; Wood Construction Assembler , Certificate of professional qualification: Reinforced Concrete Building Structure a Assembler , Certificate of professional qualification: Building Assembler with Specialization: Wood Building Assembler , Certificate of professional qualification: Building Assembler with Specialization: Metal Building Assembler , Certificate of professional qualification: Building Assembler with Specialization: Glazed Building Assembler , DIPLOMA OF VOCATIONAL SECONDARY EDUCATION with professional qualification: Hydro-structure Construction Technician , DIPLOMA OF VOCATIONAL SECONDARY EDUCATION with professional qualification: Hydro-structure Construction Technician , DIPLOMA OF FIRST LEVEL PROFESSIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION with professional qualification: Building Contractor , DIPLOMA OF VOCATIONAL SECONDARY EDUCATION with professional qualification: Construction and Road Building Machines Technician , DIPLOMA OF VOCATIONAL SECONDARY EDUCATION with professional qualification: Construction and Road Building Machines Technician

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Specialization of base qualification:
Connected to:

Link to the descriptions of the Sector Qualifications Structure levels

Other information

National Education Information System

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Last changes: 05.11.2025

Posted: 19.07.2022