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Location:
Carlisle
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Water Technician

Location: Cumberland Infirmary - Carlisle
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 per week

Are you looking to take the next step in your technical career and play a vital role in ensuring safe, compliant, and high‑quality water systems?

We're looking for a committed and skilled Water Technician to support the delivery of safe water services across the site. This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to essential compliance, protect building users, and help maintain the smooth running of critical systems every day.

What You'll Be Doing

Monitor, treat, and maintain water systems to ensure safety, compliance, and environmental standards are met.
Test water quality through sampling, chemical testing, and analysis for purification.
Maintain systems such as TMVs and storage tanks.
Identify contamination risks — including Legionella — and take proactive steps to resolve issues.
Perform maintenance on water treatment equipment, networks, and sewerage systems.
Support compliance processes and contribute to detailed reporting for audits across quality, health & safety, and environmental standards.

What We're Looking For

We're seeking a technically capable and proactive individual with:

Experience working with water systems, water treatment processes, or building services.
Strong understanding of compliance requirements such as L8 and water safety standards.
A methodical and solutions‑focused approach to problem‑solving.
Great communication skills and confidence working with internal teams and external contractors.
The ability to work efficiently, manage workload, and contribute to continuous improvement.

Key Skills & Behaviours

Customer‑focused with a professional, “can‑do” attitude.
Strong attention to detail and commitment to high standards.
Ability to prioritise tasks effectively and remain calm under pressure.
Keen to promote safe systems of work and uphold QHSE best practice.

Essential Qualifications & Experience

Experience in water hygiene, water treatment, or a similar technical environment.
Knowledge of water system maintenance, compliance, and safe operating procedures.
Previous experience in a technical, estates, or facilities role is highly desirable.

Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

Since 1987, Mitie’s 80,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

Join our Mitie Team.

Together our diversity makes us stronger.