Full-Time Legionella Risk Assessor
SGS is hiring a remote Full-Time Legionella Risk Assessor. The career level for this job opening is Experienced and is accepting UK Field Based, United Kingdom based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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Job Title: Legionella Risk Assessor
Job Type: Permanent
Hours: 40 hours per week
Job Location: Field based
Salary: £30-£35k
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 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:
- Conduct Legionella risk assessments in line with current standards.
- Conduct any additional water hygiene related tasks required by the business in line with current standards (as applicable)
- Highlight unusual results and refer them for further investigation to the appropriate staff member.
- Proof read of his/her finished reports, as well as those of others where required.
- Client liaison where required
- Maintain equipment/consumables in an operational state and notify line manager of any lost, damaged, exhausted equipment/consumables as appropriate.
- Check 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.
- Undertake 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.
How to be a successful candidate:
We are looking for someone who has:
- Experience in undertaking risk assessments on domestic hot and cold water systems.
- Experience in using hand-held digital devices on a daily basis to input risk assessment data.
- Experience in water temperature monitoring.
- Experience in water sampling (Legionella TVC & PSA).
- Experience in TMV servicing.
- 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:
- 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).
- Water Management Society Risk Assessor Course.
- Ofqual nationally regulated qualification credit framework (QCF): Relevant Level 3 diploma in Legionella risk assessment.