Job Reference: 005364
Closing Date: 08/09/2025
Department: CWH-SWH Water Hygiene
Location: Remote
Sector: Environment & Safety
Posted Date: 16/06/2025

Job Description

Legionella Trainer and Consultant

Job Role

Must be South East based and willing to travel.

Due to the nature of our clients you must pass security checks.

Do you work in Legionella Management and Control? This could be your opportunity to excel as a Legionella & Water Hygiene Trainer & Consultant, and play a vital role in helping our business succeed.

As our company grows and develops, we are ever expanding our teams. We have a great opportunity for a dedicated Legionella & Water Hygiene Trainer & Consultant to join our Environment & Safety Division and wear the SOCOTEC badge with pride.

We are looking for a driven, dependable, and flexible person to join us a member of the Water Hygiene technical team, it is key that you are able to work efficiently as part of a team, as well as having the capabilities to work independently. Due to the nature of the job, travelling will be part of your day to day role. Primarily, your role will be to undertake external training at clients sites, write Legionella written schemes, undertake Legionella management audits, carry out Legionella risk assessments, and complete internal quality checks.

The tasks you will undertake will include (but are not limited to):

  • Legionella General Awareness and Responsible Person Training.
  • Water Hygiene Consultancy, including writing written schemes and undertaking audits
  • Legionella risk assessments.

To be successful in this role, you will be able to demonstrate:

  • Experience and knowledge in the field of Legionella Management and Control.
  • Extensive knowledge of L8, HSG274 and other guidance and British Standards relating to Legionella management and control.
  • Being client focused and deliver high standard of services in Legionella training and other Legionella and water hygiene related work in a customer facing role.

About Water Hygiene

Our Water Hygiene team is split into two main areas: Water Hygiene and Legionella Risk assessment and works all over the UK. The Water Hygiene teams main focus is ensuring water systems are working safely in line with regulations. We undertake a broad range of tasks including water temperature monitoring, cleans and disinfections, shower descaling, water sampling, and TMV servicing. Our Legionella risk assessing team will undertake risk assessments, written scheme audits all to make sure our clients are complying with their legal obligations.

As part of the technical team your role will bridge both area of work.

What’s in it for you?

As well as a competitive salary we can offer you a wide range of benefits including 25 days holiday with the opportunity to buy more, an electric car scheme (where applicable), employee recognition schemes, family friendly support, employee benefits and discounts app, employee assistance programmes, and enhanced company pension. SOCOTEC UK are proud to be Disability Confident accredited.

Why SOCOTEC?

Here at SOCOTEC UK, we have over 2,000 colleagues across our divisions delivering world-class services to our customers. We provide an unrivalled range of testing, inspection, and certification services throughout the UK, and we deliver excellence to our customers by recruiting and retaining the very best industry talent. You will play a pivotal role in providing these services.

We offer transversal career pathways as well as linear pathways, and we will support you in attaining a portfolio career in one place. Not to mention the possibility of working locally and nationally in the office or remotely. We are committed to your personal and professional development, and you will be supported in every step of your journey with us. #YouGrowWeGrow

Think you’ve got what it takes to add value to our success? We would love to hear from you and look forward to receiving your application.

Building a safer and more sustainable world is the core mission we set out to achieve at SOCOTEC, it is at the heart of everything that we do. We are committed to acting as a key player in society, investing in innovative solutions to ensure social and environmental concerns are at the forefront of all of our business operations.

Take a look around the company https://www.socotec.co.uk/careers