Water Quality Specialist (Production) at Rand Water

• NQF 8 - in science, water quality engineering or chemical engineering
• NQF 6 - General management education
• 8 years of post-graduate experience in the science and or engineering industry
• 5 years of post-graduate experience in the water industry
• 2 years of post-graduate experience in project management
• 3 years experience in managing science or engineering staff
• Code 8 driver’s licence
• Competent in WORD, EXCEL, PowerPoint, pro-ADOBE, Outlook, etc.

OTHER DESIRABLE NEEDS

• NQF 6+ in project management
• NQF 5+ digital technology including:
• Water supply system digital modelling
• Artificial Intelligence

Experience in:

• Water supply system digital modelling
• Artificial Intelligence
• Quantitative risk assessment

Primary Duties

The overall duty of the job is to assure the supply of safe and acceptable quality drinking water to consumers produced from raw water sources such as:

• surface water,
• groundwater,
• domestic wastewater treatment plant effluent,
• industrial wastewater treatment plant effluent,
• mine wastewater treatment plant effluent, or
• saline water.

The following are the specific duties of the position:

• Conducting long-term water quality risk assessments on raw water sources and determining the suitability of water treatment infrastructure to continuously produce safe and acceptable quality drinking water.
• Assuring capability of water supply system infrastructure (treatment plants and distribution networks) to produce safe and acceptable drinking water supplies, including:
• Comment and participate in the development and establishment of new water supply system infrastructure
• Reviewing and optimising of existing water supply system infrastructure
• Developing, optimising, and implementing Water Quality Management Systems (Water Safety Plans) for Rand Water’s current, and potential new water supply systems.
• Troubleshooting and optimising/commenting on water quality operations for the entire water supply system.
• Conducting consumer quantitative water quality risk assessments / epidemiological studies
• Conduct department services to commercial projects
• Conducting ongoing assessment and optimisation of all outputs/services provided by the department
• Incorporating digital technologies (modelling, AI, etc) in all the department outputs/services
• Providing leadership to the section
• Planning, organising, implementing, and controlling section work (projects, project program)
• Managing section human resources, including staff temporally seconded from other sections
• Managing section finance and procurement
• Managing SHEQ aspects for the section