Water Risk Manager – Surrey or London
Job Reference: NLD-002193Salary: £48,779 rising to £50,852 following successful probation, standard benefitsEmployment Type: Permanent
Can you bring water safety to life in our communities?
We’re looking for an experienced and pragmatic Water Risk Manager to join our team. This is a key role focused on keeping our homes safe and compliant, ensuring every PA Housing property meets our Legionella Policy standards.
This role would suit someone who has worked in a client-side, housing, or property environment and is confident balancing technical compliance with real-world delivery.
What’s in it for you.
In addition to the salary, we offer a number of benefits, including:
- High street discount schemes
- Health cash plans
- 26 days’ annual leave, increasing to 29 after three years, with the opportunity to buy more
- Flexible bank holidays take them when it suits you
- Car leasing scheme
- Hybrid working offering you the flexibility to thrive in your role. You’ll have the opportunity to blend the best of both worlds, spending approximately two to three days per week in the office once settled in the role. This is flexible and depends on meeting cycles and board activity. We also offer an optional nine-day fortnight scheme, allowing you to compress your hours if it suits the role.
What you’ll be doing
- Leading on water safety compliance across PA Housing properties in line with our Legionella Policy
- Managing and coordinating water safety programmes, including inspections, servicing, and remedial works
- Monitoring contractor performance against KPIs and SLAs, ensuring high-quality delivery
- Working closely with internal teams and contractors to plan and prioritise works effectively
- Providing clear, practical technical advice and reports to support decision-making
- Supporting resident safety by ensuring issues are resolved efficiently and professionally, with a customer-focused approach
- Overseeing subcontractors across water systems, sewage pumps, and associated services
We’d love to hear from you if you:
- Have solid experience working in water safety, ideally within housing, property, or a client-side environment
- Are comfortable managing compliance programmes rather than solely delivering hands-on contractor work
- Have experience working with contractors and holding them accountable for performance
- Are confident engaging with residents when required, handling queries professionally and empathetically
- Have a strong understanding of HSE ACoP L8 and wider Health & Safety regulations
- Are comfortable using IT systems to manage compliance and reporting
- Have a solid technical understanding of building services and maintenance
If specific qualifications are required, please upload them with your application to demonstrate your eligibility.
At PA Housing, we believe in respect, integrity, and accountability. Our work is about people not just properties and we’re always looking for ways to do better. If that sounds like your kind of place, we’d love to hear from you.
Disclosure and Barring Service:
This role requires of the successful candidate to complete a standard DBS check. A standard DBS check will show any spent and unspent convictions.
So why do we need to know this information? This role will be required to visit / support PA Housing residents in their own homes on a regular basis. Therefore we have a duty to our residents to ensure that we have taken precautions regarding who will be visiting them and representing PA Housing.
Having unspent convictions will not necessarily preclude you from being recruited into the role; if you are potentially the successful candidate, we will complete a risk assessment with you to understand the circumstances around your conviction, how relevant they are to the post you have applied for and what remedial action , if any, have you have taken since your conviction. Suitable references will also need to be obtained prior to commencement of employment.
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To apply for this role please click on the apply button or for any enquiries please email recruitment@pahousing.co.uk – We reserve the right to close this job advert early if we receive a sufficient number of applications. Therefore, we advise you to apply promptly to ensure your application can be considered.
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