Water Hygiene Technician - Plumbing
Location: Field based, with Nationwide travel, occasional travel to Tamworth head office
Salary: £26,500 - £30,000, DOE + overtime (c. £10k) + Vehicle and benefits
Contract: Full time, Permanent
Hours: 40 hours a week with regular overtime.
Benefits:
- Join a growing, strong and experienced company, backed by multi-million pound group
- Friendly, supportive team structure
- Role is open to newly qualified or experienced technicians
- In-house training provided, with opportunity for external accredited courses
- Competitive salary with progression available
- All travel is paid (increasing your earnings by c. £10k p.a. with overtime)
- Stop out additional pay per night inc lunch
- 29 days holiday per annum- Holidays increase with tenure (up to 33 days)
- Regular staff conferences and social events paid for by the company
- PPE Equipment & Uniform supplied
- Working pension
- Vehicle for company use including fuel card
- Vehicle made available for private use
- 40 hours field based per week (full-time) permanent contract with available overtime.
- On-going career progression within an expanding business
- Free access to employee support services including; (health & wellbeing, financial advice, mental health, counselling.
Water Environmental Treatment Limited (W.E.T) are a well-established Legionella compliance and water treatment company managing 1000s of sites throughout the UK.
We are looking for Water Hygiene Plumbers to join its head office team in Tamworth working throughout the UK due to continuing sales success and new client contracts.
This is a fantastic role for someone who is looking to increase their knowledge and training within the industry and looking to gain new skills and is looking to develop themselves over time.
Water Hygiene Technician - The Role:
This position would be ideal for an experienced Water Hygiene Technician with plumbing experience or a qualified plumber.
As a qualified Water Hygiene Technician, you will be responsible for the remediation / fitting of domestic water systems as described in key accountabilities below. You will be supervised by the company's operations compliance manager. Other duties may be extended in to this role as the business requires.
You will attend a wide range of client sites to deliver Legionella Compliance works across the UK, to clients such as schools, healthcare premises, facility managers, retailers and construction contractors, delivering water hygiene / treatment services throughout the UK.
The roles have excellent development opportunities through the levels of pay grades the company offers.
Main Duties & Responsibilities:
This position is most ideal for a newly qualified plumber or' a plumber currently going through qualification.
Required:
- Servicing / replacing thermostatic mixer valves
- Remediation works to domestic hot and cold-water systems to include removal of pipework, installing new fittings, re-routing pipework.
- Installation of water heaters
- Good to have, trained can be provided
- Pipework chlorination's, handling chemicals and recording procedures
- Clean and disinfection of water storage tanks
- Disinfection of hot and cold system pipework
- Inspecting site assets such as water heaters, calorifiers etc...
- Taking microbiological samples from commercial and healthcare settings
- Previous experience of press fittings (crimp)
Water Hygiene Technician - About You:
A good salary is offered to attract reliable and practical candidates who can demonstrate an attention to detail and who relish the opportunity of being face-to-face with clients on the front line.
Experience, Skills & Requirements - The candidate must have skills that match some of the above main duties and must be a qualified plumber or currently going through qualification.
- Either be a qualified plumber or currently achieving qualification.
- If no qualification, time served working in plumbing disciplines will be positively looked at.
- Excellent organisational skills
- Able to consistently achieve KPI's where work is distributed
- Works well under pressure and time constraints with a flexible work attitude
- Able to communicate at all levels within the business
- Good IT skills, able to use mobile devices to collate data
- Able to adapt to new IT implementation
How to Apply: If you are ready to take the next step in your career and join our team as a Water Hygiene Technician, we want to hear from you! Please submit your resume and a cover letter outlining your relevant experience and why you are passionate about this role.
Water Environmental Treatment Limited (W.E.T) is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply.
Join us in our mission to ensure clean and safe water for everyone. Apply today and be part of something meaningful!
No agencies please!