Water and environmental engineer

The project

An integrated €31M water and sanitation project on an island with fast-growing tourism. It includes a desalination plant, already built, meant to supply sufficient, high-quality and safe water, plus a wastewater treatment plant, a sewer network and household connections. The works contract has been awarded.

Your role

• Plan water quality monitoring, interpret results, and assess how discharges affect the marine environment.
• Check the quality of the water produced by the desalination plant and of the water delivered to households.
• Follow the operation of the wastewater treatment plant: treated water quality, sludge and discharge compliance.
• Monitor the marine environment around the brine and treated-water outfalls.
• Prepare and update the impact studies and the environmental and social reports required by the authorities.
• Coordinate the works contractor, the operator and government services on water and environment issues.
• Manage measurement data: sampling plan, tracking tables and alerts when limits are exceeded.
• Deliver a monthly monitoring report.

Your profile

You have monitored a water treatment facility or conducted environmental monitoring. You can turn your findings into practical steps for the operations team. You know desalination or collective sanitation. You work in the field with site and operations teams, on an island.

Requirements

Languages

Professional Portuguese and English.

Education

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in water engineering, environmental engineering, civil engineering or chemistry, or equivalent experience. Equivalent Cape Verdean degrees accepted.

Software

Preferred: Excel, QGIS, AutoCAD, hydraulic modeling software (EPANET).