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The Water Security Agency, a Treasury Board Crown corporation, ensures sustainable water supplies are available to support growth, a healthy environment and our quality of life.
Reporting to the Manager, Environmental Services (North), an employee in this job provides technical advice and expertise to stakeholders specific to the operation, maintenance and monitoring of water and wastewater treatment facilities with a primary focus on ensuring safe drinking water supplies for Saskatchewan residents.  This employee undertakes facility inspections and conducts water quality tests, providing guidance and expertise to plant operators to ensure compliant operations and to help diagnose problems and find solutions, including issuing advisories as required. In addition, this employee reviews applications, determines operational, monitoring and reporting requirements and issues permits to operate.  This employee responds to and provides advice in the event of water and/or wastewater works related upsets, emergencies or disease outbreaks and conducts formal investigations where contraventions of legislation or regulations are discovered.  This employee contributes to the development of drinking water and wastewater related external policies and internal and external operational protocols. This is a fast paced, high pressure, complex, highly dynamic position with a high stress factor where the incumbent is challenged to balance a number of conflicting factors in achieving compliance such as financial status, capacity of owners, changing operators or managers, and other highly relevant factors.  The importance in ensuring waterworks owners and operators safe drinking water increases the stress and complexity given the potential public health consequences of a waterborne disease outbreak. The successful candidate should possess Degree in natural or physical sciences, environmental or civil engineering, integrated environmental sciences, biology, chemistry, or physics.