Overview
Join us to grow your career, shape sustainable homes and make a real difference in water efficiency across new housing developments.
Affinity Water is looking for a Sustainable Homes Auditor to help ensure new housing developments meet water efficiency and neutrality standards inline our adoption of Ofwat’s Environmental Incentives Common Framework.
You will be hands-on with site inspections, pre-occupancy audits, and compliance checks, ensuring that new homes meet water efficiency and water neutrality standards. You will review technical plans, analyse water usage trends, and produce clear, actionable reports to support developers and internal teams. You’ll also collaborate closely with engineers, developers, and supply chain partners to help improve water-efficient designs and resolve any compliance issues.
This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys problem-solving, working on the spot, and making a real impact on sustainable homes.
You will:
- Conduct thorough audits and inspections of new developments to verify compliance with water efficiency standards
- Analyse water usage data and identify trends or areas for improvement
- Produce clear, evidence-based audit reports with recommendations for developers and internal teams
- Work closely with developers, engineers, and internal stakeholders to drive improvements
- Own audit outcomes, manage risks, and deal professionally with any challenging compliance situations
- Stay up to date with changing regulations and industry standards
About you
Essential:
- Experience in audits or inspections (compliance or sustainability preferred)
- Strong attention to detail and ability to spot issues others might miss
- Confident communicating with developers, engineers, and other stakeholders
- Problem-solving mindset and able to manage challenging situations on site
- Collaborative approach, working well with internal teams and external partners
- Able to analyse data, interpret trends, and turn insights into practical recommendations
- This is a regional role, so travel across developments will be required, as well as attendance at our Hatfield office
Desirable:
- Knowledge of water neutrality, sustainability standards, or environmental incentive schemes
- Willingness to learn, grow, and share knowledge with the team
As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to offering interviews to disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria and opt in on the application form. Ask the Talent Acquisition lead for the full job description to see all the criteria. If we have a very high volume of applicants and we’re not able to offer interviews to all, we’ll take a fair and proportionate number of disabled candidates through.
