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**Job Advert Summary**: To ensure the organisational mandate of providing safe and quality drinking water is maintained in order to meet mandatory standards by providing accurate testing, analysis, and reporting within Rand Water’s area of distribution.
**Minimum Requirements**:
**Minimum Education**:

- NQF 9 - MBA/MBL or equivalent qualification or Postgraduate Diploma in Business
- NQF 8 - Honours Degree in Applied or Biological/Chemical Sciences

**Desired Education (Added Advantage)**:

- NQF 9 - MSc

**Minimum Experience**:

- Ten years Scientific Services experience or similar in related services, with at least five to eight years’ experience in a leadership role within a large-scale environment
- Exposure in the commercialisation of a laboratory services is a must
- Strategy setting
- Understanding of Governance Processes
- Stakeholder Management

**Desired Experience**:

- Large scale Budget Management valued at approximately R200 million

**Primary Duties**:

- Develop the Scientific Services Division strategy to enable Rand Water to continuously meet the mandatory standards for providing safe and quality drinking water, i.e., certification and accreditation status for (ISO 17025, ISO 9001, OHSAS 18001/ISO 45001, ISO 14001, SANS241, as well as legislative requirements such as Blue Drop and Green Drop.
- Drive partnerships with key internal and external stakeholders, as well as providing scientific water quality inputs (Professorial Chairs, WISA, IWA, Rand Water Institute, Portable Water Quality Committee, Management Committees and Board, etc.).
- Ensure that the laboratories provide uncompromised quality of sampling, monitoring of analysis and information reporting (data integrity and reliable statistical modelling).
- Ensure effective knowledge management of historical data and projections used for reporting is safely secured and tracked.
- Oversee effective financial management practice regarding budgeting, forecasting, expenditure
- control and reporting, future forecast planning, project cost control, and debtor controls are maintained.
- Advise on Water Management initiatives conducted internally and externally for academic, socio-economic, and public enhancement.
- Safeguard fixed and moveable assets to mitigate financial loss and Rand Water asset ratio (laboratory and water treatment technology instruments).
- Ensure accurate evaluation of polymeric coagulants efficiency for metal removals.
- Monitoring trends and participate in research to provide solutions on water treatment technology, advancement of scientific methods and innovation benchmarks.

Oversee the implementation of the Water Quality Safety Plan to ensure that Rand Water meets all legal requirements.

**Attitude**: - Conscientious & energetic leader with a passionate commitment to water quality assurance operations, - Ability to interact positively with the fraternity at the scientific and management level. - Sets management example with a firm yet understanding approach, assisting colleagues while respecting all in the workplace - Promoting productivity with goal driven approaches - Consistently steering excellent productivity to new heights in respect of quality and turn-around time - Driving scientific excellence within all aspects of scientific water assurance operations - Enabling growth and development of employees and pipeline of new talent into the organisation - Promotes equity and inclusivity in the spirit of Rand Water’s values