Senior Process Engineer at Rand Water

Rand Water is currently looking for a Senior Process Engineer to, as part of the Process Asset Management Section, assist in Infrastructure Asset Management of Water Treatment Process Plants based on the approaches advocated by best practice engineering

Minimum Requirements    

•  Formal Chemical Engineering qualifications (BSc Eng or B Eng)
• 4 to 6 years’ applicable post qualification experience in engineering / infrastructure
• management
• Pr Eng registration with the Engineering Council of South Africa.
• Preferred Qualifications and Experience include:
• Water industry experience
• Asset Management experience and/or qualification

Primary Duties    

• Perform a full range of varied and responsible process engineering work independently,
• requiring a high level of judgment and independent evaluation, selection, and adaptation, of
• standard techniques, and where required, devising new improved approaches to meet
• unique situations
• Involvement in work where no clear precedents exist, and which requires going beyond
• existing parameters and adaptation of plans to fit the situation
• Assist the Process Asset Manager to lead and manage all activities of the section that will
• result in optimal lifecycle performance of the specific category of assets
• Assist the Process Asset Manager to develop, compile, execute and manage the section
• annual Asset Improvement Plan that feeds into the integrated Asset Improvement Plan
• Assist the Process Asset Manager to develop, maintain, and implement asset lifecycle
• management strategies (covering asset lifespan, maintenance, replacement / renewal
• approaches)
• Conduct, Document, Report on, Review, and assist in managing Plant Performance and
• Condition Assessments (PPCAs) and agreed standards and frequencies – at times either
• independently or with other process asset engineers and/or larger multidisciplinary teams
• Undertake pre-project investigations, develop alternative solutions and prepare pre-project
• investigation reports (PPIRs) to agreed standard - either initiating projects or proposing
• other interventions
• Review Pre-Project Investigation Reports (PPIRs) prepared by others
• Present Pre-Project Investigation Reports (PPIRs) at Asset Management Committee
• meetings
• Review project Scope of Work Recommendations
• Review specifications and designs for new assets to ensure lifecycle performance is
• adequately addressed
• Participate in and/or provide input to the Potable Water Quality Working Committee and
• Water Quality Management System Task Team
• Collaborate with Scientific Services and Operations Divisions in resolving water quality and
• operational challenges (where required)
• Participate in Maintenance Planning activities where required including Plant Criticality
• Analyses, Reliability Centred Maintenance, Planned Maintenance Optimisation and Root
• Cause Analyses
• Undertake technical investigations and provide technical advice/reports to the Process Asset
• Manager, on which Rand Water may base significant decisions
• Assist the Process Asset Manager in developing and preparing annual section budget and
• practice financial management and control
• Create and encourage a culture of teamwork, and achievement, through the application of
• frequent feedback and communication with colleagues

Knowledge    

• Specification, design, operation and maintenance of the Process Assets category
• Financial and economic principles, including life cycle costing
• Condition assessment and performance measurement techniques and evaluation
• Asset rehabilitation technology
• Principles of plant maintenance and reliability
• Principles of asset management

Skills    

• Critical evaluation
• Decision making
• Planning and organizing
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills
• People management
• Self-management
• Conceptual thought and well developed analytical and coordinating skills
• Problem solving
• Project management planning principles, tools and techniques
• Networking skills
• Spatial analysis and interpretation
• Attitude    
• Customer service
• orientation
• Team player and willingness to lead
• Highly motivated and innovative
• Diligent and performance driven
• Attention to detail
• Self-motivated
• Results driven