Senior Water Quality & Standards Chemist

Job Purpose Their role involves monitoring and ensuring water quality through testing and analysis, guaranteeing compliance with regulatory standards, and overseeing laboratory operations. It also includes managing laboratory equipment and coordinating with relevant stakeholders to ensure the highest levels of quality and safety in water treatment and testing processes. Key Roles and Responsibilities Ensuring that work is carried out in accordance with approved policies, processes, procedures and instructions. Identifying opportunities for continuous improvement of systems and practices, cost optimization, productivity improvement, and efficiency. Ensuring compliance with all applicable laws, rules, regulations and standards within the water transport company and related roles such as (human capital, safety, industrial security, risks, cybersecurity, etc.). Escalating problems to ensure challenges and issues are resolved efficiently and in a timely manner. Laboratory work environment management: Ensuring the continuous cleanliness and organization of laboratories, and verifying that the storage environment complies with sample preservation requirements to ensure the accuracy of tests and their effective analysis. Collecting and analyzing samples according to sampling programs, conducting laboratory tests to ensure that the water conforms to approved standards, and coordinating with external laboratories when needed. Monitoring the performance of laboratory equipment, ensuring its periodic maintenance, and coordinating with the relevant authorities to carry out corrective maintenance when malfunctions occur. Track the laboratory's inventory of chemicals and equipment, and ensure their timely availability to avoid any disruption to laboratory operations. Guidelines were established for water sampling and testing, including sampling point locations, collection frequency, labeling and storage procedures to ensure the reliability of results. Assessing water quality, identifying potential hazards, and developing corrective plans and procedures to ensure business continuity with optimal water quality. Analyzing test results, submitting reports to the relevant departments, and recommending the necessary actions to improve water quality and comply with regulatory standards. Key Roles and Responsibilities 2 Evaluate the test results, request additional tests when needed, and investigate the root causes of any inconsistencies or deviations in water quality. Collaborating with various business units and regulatory bodies to develop sampling procedures, and adopting the latest laboratory technologies to ensure the accuracy of analysis results. Keeping up with the latest standards and developments in water analysis methods and techniques, and ensuring the application of best practices in laboratories to maintain global quality levels. Ensure that the laboratory work area is consistently clean and organized to facilitate testing . Ensuring that the storage room meets the requirements for preserving samples to guarantee test reliability. Track the inventory of required chemicals and equipment and ensure timely delivery of required supplies and instruments in accordance with the relevant schedule in order to avoid disruption of laboratory activities. Key Roles and Responsibilities 3 Collect and analyze samples in accordance with sampling programs and assist external laboratories in case poor water quality persists. Keep and store the samples in the storage room in accordance with the storage instructions. Coordinate with the chemist in case of equipment failure to ensure corrective maintenance is carried out in a timely manner. All laboratory instruments, tools and equipment are coded in accordance with the coding system prepared in order to track laboratory assets. Conduct an inventory of all equipment and tools from the various laboratories and their locations to effectively track all tools and equipment. Participating in and following up on all related work with relevant parties such as (internal audit, business continuity, operational plan, emergency plan, etc.) Participating in the work of committees (internal and external) and providing support and assistance to other transportation systems. Job Requirements Key Communications internal stakeholders All departments External stakeholders Consultants/Contractors Maintenance service providers Governmental bodies and agencies Entities/Individuals