Water Hygiene Engineer
Job description
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Water Hygiene Technician
Location: West Midlands
Salary: £28,000 - £32,000
Job Type: Permanent | Full Time | Monday - Friday
About the Role
An established facilities management and compliance company is seeking a Water Hygiene Technician to join its mobile engineering team covering sites across the West Midlands.
This role will involve delivering planned preventative maintenance and reactive water hygiene services across a variety of commercial sites, ensuring compliance with current Legionella control regulations and industry standards.
Benefits
- Up to 33 days annual leave
- Excellent company pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Ongoing training and development opportunities
- Discounted private healthcare scheme
- Discounted gym membership
- Company health assessments
- Company vehicle and tools provided
Key Duties
- Carrying out routine monitoring and maintenance of water systems in line with ACoP L8 and HSG274 guidelines
- Conducting temperature monitoring, water sampling, TMV inspections, and showerhead disinfection
- Inspecting cold water storage tanks and hot water systems
- Completing plumbing remedial works and minor installations on domestic hot and cold water systems
- Servicing, inspecting, and replacing TMVs
- Completing cleaning and disinfection works on hot and cold water systems
- Updating electronic logbooks and using handheld devices to complete reports
- Travelling across multiple client sites throughout the region
- Supporting additional water hygiene monitoring, maintenance, and remediation tasks as required
Requirements
- Experience carrying out plumbing remedials or water system maintenance works
- Legionella training qualifications such as City & Guilds or equivalent
- Good understanding of ACoP L8, HSG274, and Water Regulations
- Experience servicing and maintaining chemical water treatment systems
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Application advice
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⭐ Lead your CV with your ACoP L8 and HSG274 knowledge prominently in your Personal Statement, as the advert lists these as core requirements for every site visit.
📊 Quantify your maintenance experience: e.g. 'Carried out PPM and reactive water hygiene services across 30+ commercial sites, maintaining 100% compliance with Legionella control regulations.'
🎯 Explicitly list your Legionella training qualification (City & Guilds or equivalent) in a dedicated Certifications section — the advert calls this out as a key requirement.
🔧 Detail your TMV servicing experience separately, noting volume or frequency (e.g. 'Serviced and replaced 50+ TMVs annually across NHS and commercial premises'), as TMV work is listed multiple times in the duties.
🚗 Highlight any experience working across multiple client sites or regions in your work history, as the role requires regular travel across the West Midlands.
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- •Delivered ACoP L8-compliant PPM and reactive water hygiene services across 25 commercial sites in the West Midlands, achieving zero non-conformances over 12 months of quarterly audits.
- •Serviced, inspected, and replaced over 60 TMVs annually across healthcare and commercial premises, reducing temperature deviation incidents by 40% year-on-year.
- •Completed cold water storage tank inspections and full system disinfection works on 15 sites, updating electronic logbooks via handheld devices and ensuring HSG274-compliant records for client review.
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Dear Hiring Manager,
Penguin Recruitment's Water Hygiene Technician vacancy covering the West Midlands is a strong match for my background in Legionella control and ACoP L8 compliance. Having delivered planned preventative maintenance and reactive water hygiene services across commercial sites, I am well-versed in temperature monitoring, TMV inspections, showerhead disinfection, and maintaining electronic logbooks to HSG274 standards.
My background in water system maintenance includes inspecting cold and hot water systems, carrying out plumbing remedials, and servicing chemical water treatment systems across multi-site contracts. I hold a City & Guilds Legionella qualification and have consistently ensured client sites remain audit-ready and fully compliant with current Water Regulations.
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Interview questions
10 questions generated from this advert.
Technical
- ›Walk me through the steps you take when carrying out a Legionella risk-based temperature monitoring survey on a large commercial site.
- ›How do you ensure compliance with ACoP L8 and HSG274 when inspecting cold water storage tanks?
- ›Describe the process you follow for cleaning and disinfecting a hot water system that has recorded elevated Legionella counts.
- ›What checks do you perform when servicing and replacing a TMV, and how do you verify it is set correctly post-installation?
- ›How do you manage and update electronic logbooks to ensure audit-ready records for a client site?
Behavioural
- ›Tell me about a time you identified a significant compliance issue on a water system and how you resolved it.
- ›Describe a situation where you had to manage multiple reactive call-outs across different sites in a single day — how did you prioritise?
- ›Give an example of when you had to explain a technical water hygiene issue to a non-technical client or facilities manager.
- ›Tell me about a time you completed a plumbing remedial task under time pressure without compromising quality or safety.
- ›Describe a situation where you had to adapt your planned schedule due to an unexpected site issue — what did you do?
STAR answer examples
Model answers using the Situation-Task-Action-Result framework. Adapt to your own experience.
Tell me about a time you identified a significant compliance issue on a water system and how you resolved it.
Describe a situation where you had to manage multiple reactive call-outs across different sites in a single day — how did you prioritise?