Lead Water Treatment Engineer

Future Select Ltd; Croydon Shire; On-site; AUD 48,095 - 71,181; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training opportunities

Competitive salary

Benefits package

Job summary

A leading water treatment company is seeking a dynamic Lead Water Treatment Engineer to head new client contracts. You will manage both hands-on engineering duties and supervise a team, ensuring projects are completed efficiently and in compliance with industry standards. Applicants should demonstrate strong technical knowledge, leadership, and the ability to work collaboratively. Competitive salaries and benefits are offered for qualified candidates.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in Water Treatment within specialist companies required.
• Ability to lead on projects and support other engineers essential.
• It is beneficial to have plumbing or associated qualifications.

Responsibilities

• Act as lead engineer on ACOP L8 compliance projects.
• Oversee allocation of works for efficiency.
• Lead on cleans and disinfections of CWST.
• Provide technical support to team members.

Skills

Experience as a Water Treatment Engineer

Understanding of ACOP L8 & HSG 274

Project leadership

Good literacy and numeracy skills

IT literacy

Job description

Job Title: Lead Water Treatment Engineer
Location: Croydon, Greater London
Salary/Benefits: £25k – £37k + Training & Benefits

We are recruiting for a dynamic Lead Water Treatment Engineer to head up new client contracts in the South East of England. You will be joining a privately-owned Water / Legionella outfit, who have a growing team of site engineers. The role will involve a mix of hands‑on engineering duties as well as overseeing the successful completion of PPM duties from a team of Water Hygiene / Treatment Engineers. Candidates must have strong technical knowledge as well as interpersonal and team‑leading skills. They are offering competitive salaries and packages for the successful candidate.

Consideration will be given to candidates based in / around: Croydon, Bromley, Orpington, Sevenoaks, Caterham, Oxted, Redhill, Snodland, Aylesford, Gravesend, Dartford, Erith, Sidcup, Bexleyheath, Mitcham, Sutton, Epsom, Weybridge, Woking, Windsor, Slough, Reading, Wembley, Harlow, Watford, Ilford, Enfield, Barking, Dagenham, Rainham, Romford, Grays.

Experience / Qualifications

• Can demonstrate strong experience working as a Water Treatment Engineer within a specialist Water / Legionella company
• Excellent understanding of ACOP L8 & HSG 274 guidelines
• Ideally will have undertaken training courses, such as: TMV Servicing, Cleans & Disinfections
• It would be beneficial to hold plumbing / remedial experience and / or associated qualifications, but this is not essential
• Able to confidently lead on projects and support other engineers
• Good literacy and numeracy skills
• IT literate

The Role

• You will be acting as a lead engineer on ACOP L8 compliance projects, ensuring works are completed to timescales and in accordance with industry guidelines
• Overseeing the allocation of works to ensure optimum efficiency
• Taking the lead on cleans & disinfections of CWST
• Showerhead descales
• TMV servicing
• Basic outlet flushes
• Routine water sampling and temperature monitoring
• Supporting new and existing members of the team, to offer training and technical support
• Acting as a key point of contact for clients, in order to answer technical or logistical questions and troubleshoot issues
• Travelling to client sites in line with company requirements
• Completing regular service reports

Future Select are recruiting in the Water Treatment/Hygiene industry; we work with the best clients & candidates and supply the majority of permanent jobs in the market.

We would be interested in speaking to candidates with experience in any disciplines from Risk Assessors, Service Engineers, Account Managers and Business Development/Operational Managers through to Director level.

We are inundated with applications, we will endeavour to get back in touch, however if you have applied to Future Select and you have not heard from us after a week, on this occasion, you will not have been successful. Your details will be saved on our system and you will be contacted in the future if a vacancy matches your skills.