Career ladders leave people guessing what the next level asks of them. This template sets out each job level with its scope and decisions, the expectations that go with it, the behaviors measured every quarter and the steps a promotion case follows. The six pages run from a cover and a level summary through to a guide page that you delete before you share the document.

Every page is filled with sample content for Ivywell Group, a fictional engineering contractor with 412 field engineers, so you can see what a finished standard looks like. The names, figures, chart values and promotion dates are invented sample data. Replace them with your own levels, criteria and timetable, and keep the layouts and styles as they are.