Water Hygiene Technician

Location: This role will be based primarily in the West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and North Yorkshire region with travel required to get to all site locations.

Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday 8:00am – 4:30pm (can be worked flexibly to meet the needs of the business & successful candidate)

Salary: £14.61 per hour

Bonus opportunity: Measurement based on company and personal performance

Role Overview:

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Reporting to the Water Hygiene Supervisor, the Water Hygiene Technician will be responsible for delivering all aspects of the water hygiene program. With tasks varying from taking water samples and temperatures to assisting cleaning and disinfecting systems. The Water Hygiene Technician will ensure high standards of task completion, paperwork and regulations are met at all times. The role will require mobile working from our customer sites across Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and the North East. Company vehicle is included within this role, tablet, tools and phone will be provided.

Key Responsibilities:

• Planned and reactive maintenance as required. Responding to all allocated task requests ensuring jobs are completed within allocated service level agreements
• Routine water hygiene monitoring
• Tank and pipework insulation inspections
• Sampling (when required)
• Shower clean and disinfections
• Flushing of expansion vessels (when required)
• TMV maintenance including cleans, temperature checks and replacement
• Basic building Inspections/operational checks to include (emergency lights, fire extinguishers and weekly fire alarm testing)
• Health & Safety duties; ensuring that the task is completed in a safe and legally compliant manner at all times by following risk assessments and method statements

• Liaising with customers on a daily basis to complete tasks and gain access to areas causing minimal disruption
• To support other areas of the business where required
• To keep on top of current regulations and any changes that take place
• Checking paperwork regularly and updating tasks as required

Requirements

Skills and Attributes:

As well as exhibiting the Sewell Behaviours of being Positive, Professional, Team and Customer Focused, with a mentality of Doing the Right Thing, the successful person will have the following:

Essential:

• A satisfactory Enhanced DBS (criminal background) check
• A Good understanding of hot and cold-water systems
• Full Driving License, valid in the UK
• Have a positive and professional attitude
• Be computer literate
• Possess good organisational skills with the ability to prioritise a variety of tasks
• Possess a positive approach to learning, development and progression
• Have a flexible outlook towards hours worked (some out of hours working may be required)
• Have working knowledge of current Health and Safety practice, and accelerate your own Health & Safety culture

Desirable: ·        

• Be first aid at work trained
• Have a trade background or building knowledge
• NVQ Level 2 in Plumbing

Sewell Group is an equal opportunities employer, recruiting within the guidelines of the Equality Act 2010. We are committed to the promotion of diversity and equal opportunity, as an employer and in the delivery of our products and services.

As a committed safe employer, an enhanced DBS (criminal record) check will be carried out for the successful candidate of this role.

Benefits

• £14.61 per hour
• Bonus opportunity
• 22 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays), rising with length of service to 25 days
• Being a Co-Owner of Sewell Estates, learn more here: Employee Ownership - Sewell Group (sewell-group.co.uk)
• Auto Enrolment pension
• Staff discounts
• High Street & Retail discount schemes
• Bike 2 Work Scheme
• Technology Scheme
• Paid Parental Leave and Sickness Absence schemes

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