Water Hygiene Engineer

Job Title: Water Hygiene Engineer

Location: Watford, Bedfordshire

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

Our client is a successful and respected name within the Water Hygiene / Water Treatment industry, who have recently won new contracts in the South East and Home Counties. They are seeking an experienced Water Hygiene Engineer to operate across healthcare and public sector sites, ensuring to deliver a high level of service. Applicants must be able to work independently on site and must have a strong foundation of hands-on experience. Ideally, applicants will have an understanding of the HTM 0401 guidelines. Our client is offering attractive salaries and benefits, in addition to excellent further training opportunities within the industry.

You will be travelling across: Watford, St Albans, Hatfield, Welwyn Garden City, Potters Bar, Chesham, High Wycombe, Aylesbury, Tring, Beaconsfield, Maidenhead, Slough, Leighton Buzzard, Milton Keynes, Letchworth Garden City, Stevenage, Cheshunt, Enfield, Harpenden, Biggleswade, Thame, Bicester, Oxford, Abingdon, Didcot.

Experience / Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience working as a Water Hygiene Engineer
• Can demonstrate strong technical knowledge, including HSG 274 and ACOP L8 guidelines
• Experience working within teams and independently
• Good literacy and numeracy skills
• Proficient in using IT software
• Hardworking attitude

The Role:

• Conducting pre-planned water hygiene duties as per client needs
• Showerhead descales
• Inspections, cleans and disinfections on cold water storage tanks
• Outlet descales and flushing
• TMV servicing and failsafe checks
• Water sampling
• Temperature monitoring
• Keeping accurate notes on works completed and compiling into regular service reports
• Representing the company in a professional manner

Alternative job titles: Water Hygiene Operative, Legionella Operative, Environmental Service Technician, Water Management Engineer, Water Hygiene Technician, Water 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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