Job Description:

Job Title: Water Hygiene Engineer

Location: Sheffield, South Yorkshire

Salary/Benefits: £26k - £35k + Training & Benefits

A growing name within the Water Hygiene / Legionella industry is recruiting in the Yorkshire region. They are looking for an experienced Water Hygiene Engineer with a good foundation of knowledge, and confidence to work independently on site. Our client has recently won new contracts in the region, spanning a range of commercial and public sector clients. The ideal candidate will have a hardworking attitude and diverse skillset, as you will be adapting to changing company requirements. For the successful candidate, our client is able to offer competitive salaries and benefits packages.

We can consider candidates from: Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster, Thorne, Goole, Barnsley, Holmfirth, Huddersfield, Wakefield, Dewsbury, Batley, Morley, Leeds, Garforth, Castleford, Pontefract, Selby, Bradford, Wetherby, Harrogate, Knaresborough, York, Otley, Shipley, Keighley, Oldham, Rochdale, Worksop, Chesterfield, Mansfield, Alfreton.

Experience / Qualifications:

• Experience working as a Water Hygiene Engineer
• Conversant in ACOP L8 and HSG 274 guidelines
• Will have worked across a range of client sites
• Good literacy, numeracy and IT skills
• Flexible to travel in line with company needs
• Professional manner

The Role:

• Carrying out pre-planned water hygiene duties across new and existing client sites
• TMV servicing and maintenance
• Showerhead descales
• Cleans and disinfections on cold water storage tanks
• Calorifier inspections
• Water sampling
• Temperature monitoring
• Updating site logbooks

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

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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