Water Services Manager Wcc

Salary range: £58,299 - £64,815 per annum. Salary negotiable depending upon experience

Work location: 137 Lupus St, Pimlico, London, SW1V 3HE

Hours per week: 36

Contract type: Temporary up to 12 months

Closing date: 19 October 2026

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As Water Services Manager with Westminster’s high profile Housing Services you can make your own powerful contribution to our success. Responsible for the strategic and operational management of water hygiene, water quality and Legionella risk across our housing portfolio, your work will involve risk assessments, written schemes of control, monitoring, inspection, testing, sampling, remedial works, record keeping and emergency response. Managing specialist water hygiene contractors and consultants, and providing assurance that control measures remain effective, you’ll also lead continuous improvements in resident safety, compliance, service quality and value for money.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will be many and varied, and include developing our Legionella management policy, water hygiene written scheme of control, management plan, risk registers and escalation arrangements, and ensuring the correct risk assessments are completed. Overseeing monitoring, inspection, testing, sampling, flushing, temperature control, tank and calorifier inspections, we’ll also expect you to work on TMV maintenance, cleaning and disinfection in accordance with the necessary requirements.

Maintaining robust records, logbooks, certificates, test results and remedial actions, you’ll also manage and supervise our specialist contractors, ensuring their competence, accreditation and performance.

Leading the investigation of positive samples, abnormal results, service failures, suspected contamination and Legionella incidents will be another key focus, as will planning and delivering water quality and infrastructure improvement programmes. Ensuring new, altered and refurbished water systems are correctly designed, installed, commissioned, disinfected, tested and handed over, you’ll be ready to provide technical advice on safety, quality and Legionella control to senior officers and other stakeholders.

Maintaining a competency framework and training programme for Responsible Persons, deputies, operational teams and relevant contractors, we’ll also expect you to manage delegated budgets, procurement and investment plans.

To be a success in this vital role you should have well developed experience of leading water hygiene, water quality and Legionella risk management across a large and complex property portfolio, be capable of acting as a Responsible Person under ACoP L8, implementing effective written schemes of control and managing associated risk assessments, monitoring programmes and preventative…