Water Quality Team Leader

The City of Edinburgh Council is looking for dedicated and enthusiastic individuals to work with us and deliver key services across our capital city. We’re the second largest local authority in Scotland with a workforce of over 19,000 who all play a crucial role in maintaining and supporting vital services to over 500,000 residents. We offer an incredible variety of career opportunities across a broad range of sectors. 

Through effective team management, the post will deliver high quality, fully compliant customer-focused technical, operational, and strategic outcomes to internal and external customers in an environment of continuous improvement.

• Identify opportunities to improve service delivery taking into account compliance, performance and cost effectiveness and lead team on the implementation of these.
• Promote and manage customer relationships effectively and ensure your team correctly identify customer needs and provide satisfactory solutions.
• Leads and manages their respective team, ensuring adequate resources are in place. This includes ensuring that the team continuously has all required training, tools, equipment and PPE.
• Monitor quality of service, progress against agreed service targets and take corrective action to ensure priorities are met and customer expectations of quality and turnaround time are achieved.
• Provide professional advice, support, and assistance to the Water Quality Manager.
• Monitor and manage service plans, budgets, and programmes to ensure both strong financial and performance management and identify corrective action where appropriate.
• Design and develop strategy and lead on implementation, identifying strategic objectives and outcomes.

• Educated to an appropriate SVQ4/HND or technical level qualification, or have considerable relevant experience and demonstrated competence, including managing services and projects, budgets, staff and customers.
• A good working knowledge of Legionella Management and have completed Legionella Risk Assessment training by a recognised industry supplier (e.g., City and Guilds, British Occupational Hygiene Society, The Water Management Society).
• Knowledge of managing budgets, risk management, resource planning, performance monitoring and control, programme, and project management skills.
• A full UK driving licence.
• IOSH H&S Working / Managing safely or equivalent certificate.