Water Quality Specialist (Production) at Rand Water

Minimum Requirements

• NQF 8 - in science, water quality engineering or chemical engineering
• NQF 6 - General management
• 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

The following are the specific duties of the position:

• Understand and conduct short, medium and long-term water quality risk assessments on raw water sources and determining the suitability of the drinking water supply system infrastructure (treatment plants and distribution networks) to continuously produce safe and acceptable quality drinking water.

Verifying capability of drinking water supply system infrastructure to produce safe and acceptable drinking water supplies, including:

• Review and provide operations optimisation comments for existing drinking water supply system infrastructure,
• Comment and participate in process audits (process capability and process condition assessments), and/or
• Comment on suitability of proposed new / changed drinking water supply system infrastructure.
• Develop, optimising, and implementing Water Safety Plans (Water Quality Management Systems) for Rand Water’s current, and potential new water supply systems. This includes the ability to define, optimise and ensure implementation of water quality monitoring programmes and incident management protocols.
• Conduct department services to commercial projects.
• Incorporating digital technologies (modelling, artificial intelligence - AI, etc) in all the department outputs/services.

Providing leadership:

• Planning, organising, implementing, and controlling section work,
• Managing human resources, and Managing finance and procurement.