Water Quality Expert

Water Quality Expert

Responsibilities

1.Develop verified system descriptions and process flow diagrams. Conduct field inspections by visiting all of the Oman assets. All site facilities will be visited to collect all the required information and data and to conduct sanitary inspections of infrastructure to assess condition and verify the information. This will cover all seawater and brackish water source waters, well recharge areas, treatment plants, and storage reservoirs, and representative samples of customer connections. Allow up to be determined days of field work.

2.Summaries relevant aspects of historical water quality data, such as identifying exceedances of guideline values, or unknowns for parameters not tested.

3.Facilitate a workshop to identify drinking water quality hazards and hazardous events and conduct risk assessments with the WSP Team in the form of tabular summaries.

4.Identify existing control measures, and note improvements required to reduce risks to acceptable levels if there are shortfalls, and document the validation of the process controls.

5.Summarize operational monitoring strategies for control measures, including setting target criteria and critical limits. This will be set out as process control (monitoring, target, limit, corrective action) in simple format for operators.

6.Develop the verification monitoring program for water quality, customer satisfaction, and regulatory compliance.

7. Support development of asset and infrastructure monitoring and management and Standard Operational Procedures (SOPs).

8.Develop supporting programs, such as training, education, asset management, inspection and preventive maintenance of processes and equipment (including calibration of monitoring devices), and material and chemical selection and QA.

9.Develop the continuous improvement and revision process.

10.Produce the WQP manual and supporting documents to a standard suitable for submission to the public government regulator and auditing department. The WQP manual will be constructed in a simple, straightforward context to ensure that it will be easily implemented by the WQP team.