Water Hygiene Technician / Trainee Water Hygiene Technician

Franks Portlock; Westhoughton; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading environmental management consultancy is seeking a Water Hygiene Technician/Trainee for a position covering the Staffordshire area. The role involves monitoring water systems, including temperature monitoring and legionella risk assessment, with full training provided. Candidates should possess essential experience in hygiene-related responsibilities and have a clean driving license. Benefits include a generous holiday package, hybrid vehicle, company pension, and personal development opportunities, making this an exciting career starter in the Water Industry.

Benefits

Generous holiday package

Hybrid vehicle & fuel card

Company pension

Employee Assistance Programme

Social Value Volunteering opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in water hygiene tasks such as temperature monitoring and legionella risk assessment.
• Ability to work nationwide and communicate effectively with customers.
• Full clean driving license required.

Responsibilities

• Monitor temperature and report exceptions.
• Clean and descale shower heads and taps.
• Perform cold water system inspections and report findings.
• Conduct microbiological sampling.

Skills

Temperature monitoring

Legionella risk assessment

Cold Water Storage tank cleaning

Customer communication

Tools

AutoCAD

Job description

Job Title

Water Hygiene Technician / Trainee Water Hygiene Technician – Staffordshire – Salary: £25,000 – £28,000 (dependent on experience)

About the client

Franks Portlock is a leading environmental management consultancy that provides water hygiene and treatment services. We 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 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.

Role Overview

The role will be undertaking all aspects of Water Hygiene related work, mainly dealing with the requirements within the HSG 274 part 2. The role also offers full training and support to kick start a career in the Water Industry. A full clean driving licence is required. The Technician will be covering the Severn Trent area.

Responsibilities

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

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 you must be willing to travel and stay away from home as and when required.

Required Experience

Essential experience required include the duties listed in the Responsibilities section. Experience with expansion vessel flushing, cold water inspection, and legionella risk assessment is essential. Experience in cry installing or similar is desired but not essential.

Benefits

• Generous holiday package: 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, with option to choose one extra day or Vitality health insurance
• Hybrid vehicle & fuel card: All tools needed 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 wellbeing
• Family friendly policies
• Employee of the month award
• Employee representative at each site to boost engagement
• Personal Development Plan to help support and develop employees
• Social Value Volunteering opportunities
• National Living Wage employer