Job Description:

Job Title: Water Hygiene Engineer

Location: Leicester, East Midlands

Salary/Benefits: £26k - £36k + Training & Benefits

Due to continued company growth, our client is seeking an experienced and hardworking Water Hygiene Engineer to join their Midlands team. They are seeking someone who has a well-rounded skillset and strong industry technical knowledge, who can hit the ground running. Ideally, you will have good access to the M1 for easier travel to client premises. Our client is a privately owned outfit, who specialise within water hygiene, risk assessing and plumbing services and can offer great further training for engineers. Salaries on offer are competitive and benefits include: company vehicle, fuel card and overtime earning.

We are seeking someone based around: Leicester, Hinckley, Nuneaton, Lutterworth, Loughborough, Coalville, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Swadlincote, Burton upon Trent, Derby, Nottingha, Ilkeston, Lichfield, Tamworth, Burntwood, Walsall, Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Marston Green, West Bromwich, Dudley, Stafford, Cannock, Rugeley, Coventry, Royal Leamington Spa, Rugby.

Experience / Qualifications:

• Experience working as a Water Hygiene Engineer within a well-established outfit
• Strong industry knowledge, including: ACOP L8 and HSG 274 guidelines
• Flexible to travel in line with company needs
• Good literacy and numeracy competencies
• Proficient in using IT software
• Hardworking attitude

The Role:

• Undertaking a wide variety of ACOP L8 compliance tasks across commercial, local authority and public sector sites
• Showerhead and outlet descales
• TMV servicing and failsafe checks
• Inspections, cleans and disinfections on cold water storage tanks
• Calorifier inspections
• Water sampling
• Temperature monitoring
• Completing regular service reports
• Updating site logbooks

Alternative job titles: Water Treatment Engineer, Water Management Engineer, Legionella Operative, Water Hygiene Technician.

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.

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