Job Description
1. Job Title: Legionella Risk Assessor
2. Job Type: Permanent
3. Hours: 40 hours per week
4. Job Location: Field based - South
5. Salary: £25-£30k
We have an excellent opportunity for a Legionella Risk Assessor to join our global organisation on a permanent basis. As a Legionella Risk Assessor, you will be responsible for carrying out Legionella risk assessments in line with ACOP L8/HSG274, as well as to LCA and UKAS standards. A good working knowledge of water systems, supplies and water regulations governing these is required.
Home based role but must be able to travel to the Wolverhampton office when needed.
Key responsibilities
6. To conduct Legionella risk assessments in line with current standards.
7. To conduct any additional water hygiene related tasks that are required by the business in line with current standards (as applicable)
8. Highlighting unusual results and referring them for further investigation to the appropriate staff member.
9. Proof reading of his/her finished reports, as well of those of others where required.
10. Client liaison where required
11. Maintaining equipment / consumables in an operational state and notifying line manager of any lost, damaged, exhausted equipment / consumables as appropriate.
12. Checking all uploaded risk assessments, as frequently as required, on the SGS digital project management platform to ensure accuracy of data upload from the associated field work app.
13. Undertaking water hygiene orientated tasks as required by the needs of the business such as water temperature monitoring, water sampling, TMV servicing, shower head descales etc.
Qualifications
How to be a successful candidate
14. We are looking for someone who has experience in undertaking risk assessments on domestic hot and cold water systems.
15. Experience in using hand-held digital devices on a daily basis to input risk assessment data.
16. Experience in water temperature monitoring.
17. Experience in water sampling (Legionella TVC & PSA).
18. Experience in TMV servicing.
19. Experience in performing risk assessments on a range of building types and water systems.
For this role it is also essential to have at least one of the following qualifications:
20. Appropriate BOHS proficiency module certificates for Legionella risk assessment and management (BOHS P901, P903, P904) with P901 as a minimum (or City & Guilds Equivalent WH004).
21. Water Management Society Risk Assessor Course.
22. Ofqual nationally regulated qualification credit framework (QCF): Relevant Level 3 diploma in Legionella risk assessment.