Make the call.
See what happens.
Step into a real engineering role on a real UK project. Work the judgement calls the job actually demands — then let the coach walk you through the why. Each scenario exercises verified competencies you can carry toward an apprenticeship or chartership.
See it as a programme5 scenarios live — more in production.
Ground truth on the A14
You're a civil engineering technician on the A14 Cambridge–Huntingdon scheme. A new embankment has to cross former quarry land, and the ground investigation has come back patchy — peat and made ground where the design assumed firm clay. The design engineer needs your interpretation today. Whatever you issue, the road sits on it for the next hundred years.
Night depot exam on a dual-voltage Electrostar
You are a rail engineering operative — traction & rolling stock — on a night-shift depot exam. The unit is a Class 387 Electrostar: dual-voltage, working off 25 kV overhead on some routes and 750 V DC third rail on others, so it carries both pantograph and shoegear. Your job is to work the exam to instruction, find what's wrong, and know what you can and can't sign off.
On the line: building a 777 bodyshell sub-assembly
You are a mechanical manufacturing operative on a rolling-stock build line, producing aluminium bodyshell sub-assemblies for a new metro fleet. It's a publicly owned fleet — the customer carries the asset, not a leasing company — so quality flows straight back to the people who'll run it for thirty years. Today is about getting components to spec, repeatably, at fleet volume.
A Pacific's ten-year boiler overhaul
You are a heritage steam mechanical overhaul technician. A preserved express Pacific is mid-way through its ten-year overhaul. The boiler is out of the frames and on the stand. Today you assess the firebox and decide what it takes to get a safe boiler certificate — to the HRA guidance, under the insurer's inspector, with the operating season counting down.
Rebuilding a withdrawn Class 47 into a Class 57
You are a heritage vehicle mechanical technician at a locomotive works. A withdrawn 1960s Class 47 has arrived to be remanufactured into a Class 57 — new EMD power unit, modern control systems, but reusing the original bodyshell and bogies. Your call: what can be safely carried over, and what has to be re-manufactured?