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Job Description
Research, design, plan, or perform engineering duties in the prevention, control, and remediation of environmental hazards using various engineering disciplines. Work may include waste treatment, site remediation, or pollution control technology.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 17-2081.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 88,530.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 42.00
- Currently, there are 52,280 people on this job
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Environmental Engineers”.
Also Known As…
- Environmental Engineers
- Sanitary Engineer
- Regulatory Environmental Compliance Manager
- Marine Engineer CPVEC (Marine Engineer Commercial Passenger Vessel Environmental Compliance)
- Hazardous Substances Engineer
- Global Director Air and Climate Change
- Environmental Remediation Specialist
- Environmental Engineer
- Environmental Analyst
- Chief, Pesticides and Toxic Substances Branch
- Air Pollution Control Engineer
- Water Treatment Plant Engineer
- Water Supply Engineer
- Water Resources Engineer
- Wastewater Treatment Engineer
- Waste Management Engineer
- Solid Waste Management Engineer
- Solid Waste Engineer
- Soil Engineer
- Sewage Disposal Engineer
- Sanitation Engineer
- Reservoir Engineer
- Remediation Project Engineer
- Radiation Protection Engineer
- Public Health Engineer
- Project Manager
- Project Engineer
- Pollution Control Engineer
- Irrigation Engineer
- Hazardous Waste Management Specialist
- Hazardous Waste Management Control Engineer
- Flood Control Engineer
- Environmentalist
- Environmental Systems Coordinator
- Environmental Scientist
- Environmental Safety Specialist
- Environmental Remediation Engineer
- Environmental Project Manager
- Environmental Planner
- Environmental Designer
- Environmental Coordinator
- Environmental Consultant
Tasks for “Industrial Hygiene Engineer”
- Inform company employees or other interested parties of environmental issues.
- Develop site-specific health and safety protocols, such as spill contingency plans or methods for loading or transporting waste.
- Develop proposed project objectives and targets and report to management on progress in attaining them.
- Assist in budget implementation, forecasts, or administration.
- Assess, sort, characterize, or pack known or unknown materials.
- Write reports or articles for Web sites or newsletters related to environmental engineering issues.
- Develop, implement, or manage plans or programs related to conservation or management of natural resources.
- Advise industries or government agencies about environmental policies and standards.
- Design or supervise the design of systems, processes, or equipment for control, management, or remediation of water, air, or soil quality.
- Inspect industrial or municipal facilities or programs to evaluate operational effectiveness or ensure compliance with environmental regulations.
- Prepare or present public briefings on the status of environmental engineering projects.
- Collaborate with environmental scientists, planners, hazardous waste technicians, engineers, experts in law or business, or other specialists to address environmental problems.
- Monitor progress of environmental improvement programs.
- Prepare, review, or update environmental investigation or recommendation reports.
- Provide environmental engineering assistance in network analysis, regulatory analysis, or planning or reviewing database development.
- Advise corporations or government agencies of procedures to follow in cleaning up contaminated sites to protect people and the environment.
- Request bids from suppliers or consultants.
- Prepare, maintain, or revise quality assurance documentation or procedures.
- Serve as liaison with federal, state, or local agencies or officials on issues pertaining to solid or hazardous waste program requirements.
- Develop or present environmental compliance training or orientation sessions.
- Provide assistance with planning, quality assurance, safety inspection protocols, or sampling as part of a team conducting multimedia inspections at complex facilities.
- Provide technical support for environmental remediation or litigation projects, including remediation system design or determination of regulatory applicability.
- Assess the existing or potential environmental impact of land use projects on air, water, or land.
- Provide administrative support for projects by collecting data, providing project documentation, training staff, or performing other general administrative duties.
- Direct installation or operation of environmental monitoring devices or supervise related data collection programs.
- Prepare hazardous waste manifests or land disposal restriction notifications.
- Coordinate or manage environmental protection programs or projects, assigning or evaluating work.
- Obtain, update, or maintain plans, permits, or standard operating procedures.
Related Technology & Tools
- Soil modulus failure testing devices
- Ambient air measurement devices
- Chemostats
- Liquid chromatography detectors
- Spectrophotometers
- Microwave digestion instruments
- Organic carbon analyzers
- Electric pumps
- Soil electrical conductivity measurement devices
- Universal fractionators
- Dissolved oxygen meters
- Soil-erodability testing devices
- Sampling pumps
- Core drill rigs
- Gas chromatographs GC
- Mercury/hybrid atomizers
- Sorbent tubes
- Limnological coring drills
- Graphite furnaces
- Solid shear failure testing devices
- Total organic carbon TOC analyzers
- Gas meters
- Combustible gas meters
- Direct shear testing devices
- Fume hoods
- Flame emission detectors
- Whole air canisters
- Fluorescence spectrophotometers
- Stem augers
- Thermocouples
- Environmental probe systems
- Air velocity meters
- Limnological core loggers
- Centrifuges
- Ozonators
- Air incubators
- California bearing ratio CBR testing devices
- Desktop computers
- Particulate filters
- Plasma-mass spectrometers
- Consolidometers
- Conductivity meters
- Individual burner air measurement IBAM probes
- Nutrient analyzers
- Ultraviolet water purification systems
- Surface area analyzers
- Fluorescence detectors
- Wave gauges
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- Nitrogen oxide burners
- Particle counters
- Flow meters
- Supercritical fluid extractors
- Notebook computers
- Trace metal analyzers
- Microbics toxicity analyzers
- Capillary electrophoresis systems
- Water level recorders
- Freeze dryers
- Flame ionization detectors FID
- Anaerobic growth chambers
- Laboratory ovens
- Interferometeric refractormeters
- Automatic titrators
- Mass spectrometers
- Autoclaves
- Luminometers
- Geoprobes
- Argon ionization detectors
- Soil carbon-nitrogen CN analyzers
- Mud rotary drills
- Photometers
- Shakers
- Glove box systems
- Global positioning system GPS receivers
- Atomic absorption AA spectrometers
- Ion chromatographs
- Liquid ring pumps
- Laser photometers
- pH meters
- Hydrological current meters
- Multi gas detector tubes
- Sample concentrators
- Atomic absorption AA spectrophotometers
- Scanning potentiostats
- Incubators
- Liquid scintillation counters
- Ultraviolet UV light detectors
- Thermal/catalytic oxidizers TCO
- Biological oxidizers
- Charge-coupled device CCD cameras
- Multiparameter water quality instruments
- Thermal conductivity detectors
- Colorimeters
- Epifluorescence microscopes
- Electron capture detectors ECD
- Pitot tubes
- Sampling trains
- Balances
- Seismographs
- Respirometers
- Headspace autosamplers
- Finite element method FEM software
- XP Software XPSWMM
- Rockwell Automation Arena
- Greenhouse gas management software
- Water flow modeling software
- Microsoft Excel
- Oil mapping software
- Formula translation/translator FORTRAN
- Simultaneous location and mapping SLAM
- WAM software
- Computer aided design and drafting software CADD
- Microsoft Project
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- Hydrologic simulation program fortan HSPF software
- Material safety data sheet MSDS software
- Fugitive emission leak detection software
- Hazardous materials management HMS software
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- Microsoft Access
- Image analysis software
- Python
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- DHI Water and Environment MIKE SHE
- Maplesoft Maple
- Photogrammetric software
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Insightful S-PLUS
- Wind flow modeling software
- C++
- Air dispersion modeling software
- Continuous emission management software
- RockWare MODFLOW
- Microsoft Word
- SofTech CADRA
- Ecological risk assessment software
- Bentley Microstation
- Regulatory compliance management software
- HEC RAS
- Environmental health and safety documentation software
- ESRI ArcGIS software
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- Stormwater runoff modeling software
- SAS
- ESRI ArcView
- LINDO
- Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D
- Gas dispersion model software
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- ANSYS
- Microsoft Office
- Geomechanical design analysis GDA software
- Computer aided design CAD software