Water Hygiene Technician / Trainee Water Hygiene Technician

Franks Portlock Consulting Limited; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading environmental consultancy is seeking a Water Hygiene Technician to manage water hygiene tasks across the UK. This role involves temperature monitoring, system inspections, and cleaning services to ensure compliance with safety standards. The candidate must have strong communication skills, a dedication to practical work, and be willing to travel nationwide. Benefits include a generous holiday package, hybrid vehicle provision, and comprehensive employee support programs.

Benefits

25 days of holiday plus bank holidays

Hybrid vehicle & fuel card

Company pension

Employee assistance programme

Personal development plan

Qualifications

• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels.
• Willingness to travel and stay away from home when required.

Responsibilities

• Conduct water hygiene related work nationwide.
• Carry out inspection and reporting of water systems.
• Perform cleaning and disinfection of water storage tanks.

Skills

Temperature monitoring

Customer communication

Shower head cleaning

Microbiological sampling

Tools

AutoCAD

Job description

Water Hygiene Technician / Trainee Water Hygiene Technician

Location: Staffordshire
Salary: £25,000 - £28,000 (dependent on experience)

About Us

A leading environmental management consultancy, Franks Portlock provides a range of water hygiene and treatment services. Our water hygiene services help maintain safe water systems within any premises you own or occupy, in accordance with the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, enabling you to be fully compliant with the requirements of HSE’s L8 ACOP.

We are UKAS accredited to ISO / IEC 17025 and 17020 with offices based in London, Midlands, the North East and North West of England and Rosyth.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome all applications.

The role

The role will be undertaking all aspects of Water Hygiene related work, mainly dealing with the requirements within the HSG 274 part 2.

You must be able to communicate at all levels as you will be customer facing for most of your time.

The area covered is nationwide so must be willing to travel and stay away from home as and when required.

Essential experience required in

• Temperature monitoring and accurate exception and action reporting.
• Shower head and tap cleaning and descaling.
• Expansion vessel flushing
• Cold Water and Calorifier internal inspection and reporting.
• Calorifier blow downs.
• Microbiological collection and sampling
• TMV removal, servicing and failsafe testing
• Cold Water Storage tank cleaning and system disinfection.
• Mains injection disinfection

Experience desired but not essential

• Logbook review and reporting.
• Legionella Risk Assessing of hot and cold-water systems.
• CAD production on AutoCAD

Why Join Us

• Generous Holiday Package : Enjoy 25 days of holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to choose one extra day of holiday or Vitality health insurance
• Hybrid Vehicle & Fuel Card : All the tools you need to get the job done
• Staff uniform and PPE
• Working away allowance
• Company Pension
• Employee Assistance programme (EAP) and fully qualified Mental Health First Aiders to support with your wellbeing!
• Family friendly policies
• Employee of the month award
• Employee representative at each of our sites to boost employee engagement
• Personal Development Plan to help support and develop our employees
• Social Value Volunteering opportunities

National Living wage employer

Ready to take the next step in your career? Apply now to join our team.