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EKURHULENI WATER CARE COMPANY (ERWAT)
SENIOR PROCESS CONTROLLER
Kempton Park, Gauteng
Permanent
Closing Date 29 October 2026
Job Details
Division: Operations
Business Unit: DD4 Daveyton
Minimum experience: Mid-Senior
Company primary industry: Environmental Services
Job functional area: Operations
Job Description
Job Content
Responsible for the 24-hour operation of wastewater treatment plants to ensure compliance of effluent and disposal of sludge according to Water Use License conditions, Sludge Guidelines and Departmental targets.
Description of Job
1. Operational Management effectiveness
- Manage chemical dosing to ensure process performance, compliance and cost efficiency.
- Manage activated sludge modules/plants for optimal nutrient removal and effluent compliance.
- Manage the operation of trickling filters to ensure compliance.
- Manage schedules for disposal, removal of dried sludge or compost from sludge lands or drying beds.
- Coordinate and manage sludge transport off site and submit cost breakdown.
- Manage sludge feed schedules and monitor and control performance of anaerobic digesters to ensure well stabilized sludge disposed.
- Manage cost effective operation and control of mechanical dewatering plant.
- Prepare schedules for and control frequency and duration of sludge draw off from various modules (primary sedimentation tanks, thickeners, humus tanks, digesters and reactors) as per Standard Operating Procedures.
- Manage all processes and equipment and ensure corrective action is taken when necessary.
- Manage and record all process changes on plant.
2. Financial Effectiveness
- Manage variable costs through optimization and efficient operation of all modules.
- Report to Works Manager any financial deviation, which might occur as a result of plant operation anomalies.
- Assist in compiling plant operational and capital budgets
3. Quality effectiveness
- Manage the implementation of Incident Management Protocol for any incident
- Manage sample schedules and process sampling and liaise with Laboratory to perform ad hoc sampling when required.
- Ensure implementation of all SOP’s, review and adjust when necessary
- Ensure Lab analysis results are interpreted correctly and subsequent process adjustments are performed.
- Ensure all documentation required for Green Drop program is compiled and presented to auditors
4. Administrative effectiveness
- Compile daily/weekly/monthly and quarterly reports in terms of process performance, compliance and efficiencies.
- Record all incidents and spillages according to the ERWAT incident management protocol.
- Assist with compiling of specifications and scopes of works and assist with the evaluation of quotations received.
- Verify calculation of overtime /short time hours worked of shift workers.
- Generate all ad-hoc, break downs and planned Work Orders according to Maintenance Programme
5. Subordinate effectiveness
- Supervise all subordinates to ensure the efficient and cost-effective operation of the plant.
- Manage shift rosters and leave to ensure availability of staff at all times as required.
- Assist with training and mentoring of subordinates, in-service trainees and graduates.
- Convey management decisions and instructions to subordinates/shift leaders.
6. Safety/ Health, Environmental and Risk requirements
- Ensure OHS Act and applicable Regulations, ERWAT safety policy, procedures, signs and instructions to prevent incidents and accidents.
- Ensure good housekeeping.
- Assist with compiling of SOP’s and ensure implementation thereof.
- Ensure daily toolbox talks are conducted.
- Assist with review of plant risk register and identification of emerging risks.
- Ensure implementation of mitigating controls.
- Report any incidents /accidents and near misses as per IMP
Minimum Requirements:
Wastewater Treatment NQF 5 and 8 years’ relevant experience of which 2 years’ experience on Process Controller level or equivalent.
OR
National Diploma, National Technical Diploma, NTC VI or BSc Degree (all in appropriate field) and 6 years’ experience of which 2 years at Process Controller level or equivalent.
Special Requirements
- Registration with DWS as a minimum class V process controller
- Driver’s license
