Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Permanent
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Water Hygiene Compliance Officer to join our Property Compliance team, responsible for maintaining safe water systems across the Council’s commercial & operational property portfolio.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in ensuring compliance with all current water hygiene and Legionella control regulations across a diverse range of buildings including, but not limited to, offices, schools, leisure centres, depots, libraries, and community facilities.
Reporting to the Compliance Manager, you’ll support and oversee the Council’s water hygiene compliance programme, ensuring all properties operate in line with current legislation and best practice including ACOP L8, HSG274, COSHH, and associated health and safety requirements.
The successful candidate will work closely with the wider teams within Estates and Building Services, contractors, facilities teams, and operational managers to maintain robust compliance systems, monitor performance, and reduce risk across the estate.
This is a full time, permanent position working 37 hours per week. You’ll have flexibility in hybrid working being both office based, at City Hall or working remotely from home/site to suit service needs with an expectation of working in the office 2 days a week minimum.
What you’ll be doing
You’ll manage and monitor water hygiene compliance across the Council’s broad property portfolio. Ensuring compliance with ACOP L8, HSG274, COSHH, and the relevant legislation. In addition, you’ll review Legionella risk assessments and ensure remedial actions are completed, accurately and in a timely manner.
No one day will be the same in this varied role. Not only will you be providing expert technical advice and support to colleagues, stakeholders and site managers, you’ll also be responsible for monitoring contractor performance and KPIs to ensure that services are compliant with the contract thus monitoring overall service delivery.
Within this role, you’ll be accountable for coordinating water sampling, temperature monitoring, flushing regimes, and inspections. With results then feeding in to compliance records, logbooks, and reporting systems which you’ll be liable for the maintenance and accuracy. Utilising said documents to provide audits and compliance inspections.
You’ll also investigate compliance failures and implement corrective actions. And assist in developing water safety procedures and improvement plans.
What you’ll need
The ideal candidate will have proven experience working within water hygiene, Legionella compliance and building compliance environments. As well as experience of managing contractors and compliance records. You’ll have substantial knowledge of ACOP L8, HSG274, and water hygiene regulations.
As an individual you’ll have strong organisational skills, with the ability to work to tight deadlines and manage competing priorities. You’ll have excellent interpersonal skills, being a confident communicator who can build well established working relationships with a variety of different stakeholders.
This role will offer autonomy, as well as team working so you must be able to work independently and as part of a team.
Due the subject of this role, you’ll need a full UK driving license and the ability to travel when needed.
What we can offer you
As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You’ll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from a number of flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses and trains. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.
Join us
We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the ‘our approach to recruitment’ page.
If you’d like to have a chat before applying, feel free to contact Kevin Smith, Hard FM Service Manager – [email protected]
Interviews will take place on Monday 3rd August 2026.
