Water Operations and Maintenance Expert

Vor 4 Tagen


Hamburg, Hamburg, Deutschland GFA Consulting Group Vollzeit
Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Water Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Expert to join our team at GFA Consulting Group. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in supporting the implementation of water and sanitation investments at utility level.

Key Responsibilities
  • Conduct comprehensive technical reviews of utility infrastructure, including water supply and sewer networks, treatment works, pumping stations, and stormwater drainage.
  • Identify gaps in existing O&M procedures and develop holistic capacity development measures to maximize asset utilization and improve service delivery.
  • Support technical infrastructure planning that promotes gender-balanced and inclusive community participation, civil society, and disability organization engagement.
  • Develop and implement modular training systems and support their rollout.
  • Review and update Public Service Agreements that define O&M obligations for utilities and third-party service providers.
  • Support the procurement of equipment for effective implementation of O&M measures.
  • Support asset management, including GIS-based asset inventory, preventive maintenance, and repair for water supply, wastewater, and stormwater systems.
  • Establish a team for repair that can efficiently respond to pipe breaks and other system failures.
  • Develop an asset management and maintenance plan that ensures cost-effective service delivery.
  • Support the development and update of O&M manuals.
  • Review, update, and/or define Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for key assets in water supply, sewerage, and stormwater drainage.
  • Utilize and maintain technical databases and software applications (SCADA, GIS, hydraulic modeling, etc.).
Requirements
  • A minimum of 8 years of experience working as a Water Supply/Wastewater Engineer with a focus on O&M processes, with experience in rural contexts being desirable.
  • Strong knowledge of water utility operations and performance improvement, including definition and monitoring of key performance indicators and benchmarking, incorporation of Gender Equality, Disability, and Social Inclusion considerations, and climate mitigation and adaptation initiatives into infrastructure planning.
  • Proven record of know-how in asset management, preventive maintenance, and organization of repair works, with understanding of dynamic infrastructure criticality and prioritization of measures in resource-scarce environments in the context of climate change.
  • Proven experiences in implementation of capacity development measures related to O&M processes.
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Strong communication, presentation, and report writing skills.
  • Ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams and collaborate with diverse stakeholders.
  • Experience in development cooperation projects in different countries is preferred.
  • Engineering degree in a relevant field.
  • Excellent command of written and oral English language is a prerequisite, with proficiency in French language being desirable.


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