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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
- Pollution Control Engineer
- Irrigation Engineer
- Industrial Hygiene 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 “Project Engineer”
- Develop site-specific health and safety protocols, such as spill contingency plans or methods for loading or transporting waste.
- Develop or present environmental compliance training or orientation sessions.
- Prepare or present public briefings on the status of environmental engineering projects.
- Prepare, review, or update environmental investigation or recommendation reports.
- Serve as liaison with federal, state, or local agencies or officials on issues pertaining to solid or hazardous waste program requirements.
- Coordinate or manage environmental protection programs or projects, assigning or evaluating work.
- Assist in budget implementation, forecasts, or administration.
- Obtain, update, or maintain plans, permits, or standard operating procedures.
- Provide technical support for environmental remediation or litigation projects, including remediation system design or determination of regulatory applicability.
- Direct installation or operation of environmental monitoring devices or supervise related data collection programs.
- Monitor progress of environmental improvement programs.
- Provide administrative support for projects by collecting data, providing project documentation, training staff, or performing other general administrative duties.
- Collaborate with environmental scientists, planners, hazardous waste technicians, engineers, experts in law or business, or other specialists to address environmental problems.
- Advise corporations or government agencies of procedures to follow in cleaning up contaminated sites to protect people and the environment.
- Inform company employees or other interested parties of environmental issues.
- Advise industries or government agencies about environmental policies and standards.
- Provide assistance with planning, quality assurance, safety inspection protocols, or sampling as part of a team conducting multimedia inspections at complex facilities.
- Prepare, maintain, or revise quality assurance documentation or procedures.
- Request bids from suppliers or consultants.
- Write reports or articles for Web sites or newsletters related to environmental engineering issues.
- Inspect industrial or municipal facilities or programs to evaluate operational effectiveness or ensure compliance with environmental regulations.
- Assess the existing or potential environmental impact of land use projects on air, water, or land.
- Prepare hazardous waste manifests or land disposal restriction notifications.
- Provide environmental engineering assistance in network analysis, regulatory analysis, or planning or reviewing database development.
- Develop, implement, or manage plans or programs related to conservation or management of natural resources.
- Develop proposed project objectives and targets and report to management on progress in attaining them.
- Assess, sort, characterize, or pack known or unknown materials.
- Design or supervise the design of systems, processes, or equipment for control, management, or remediation of water, air, or soil quality.
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- Organic carbon analyzers
- Fume hoods
- Universal fractionators
- Ambient air measurement devices
- Laboratory ovens
- Glove box systems
- Headspace autosamplers
- Notebook computers
- Particulate filters
- Consolidometers
- Thermal/catalytic oxidizers TCO
- Environmental probe systems
- Flow meters
- Particle counters
- Microbics toxicity analyzers
- Seismographs
- Electron capture detectors ECD
- Gas meters
- Sample concentrators
- pH meters
- Colorimeters
- Anaerobic growth chambers
- Air velocity meters
- Atomic absorption AA spectrometers
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- Individual burner air measurement IBAM probes
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- Balances
- Wave gauges
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- Chemostats
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- Soil electrical conductivity measurement devices
- Electric pumps
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- Flame emission detectors
- Autoclaves
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- Epifluorescence microscopes
- Fluorescence spectrophotometers
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- Flame ionization detectors FID
- Respirometers
- Charge-coupled device CCD cameras
- Core drill rigs
- Air incubators
- Photometers
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- Thermocouples
- Liquid ring pumps
- Nutrient analyzers
- Trace metal analyzers
- Sorbent tubes
- Sampling trains
- Ultraviolet UV light detectors
- Conductivity meters
- Solid shear failure testing devices
- Capillary electrophoresis systems
- Spectrophotometers
- Atomic absorption AA spectrophotometers
- Stem augers
- Soil carbon-nitrogen CN analyzers
- Thermal conductivity detectors
- Incubators
- Ion chromatographs
- Liquid scintillation counters
- Biological oxidizers
- Sampling pumps
- Plasma-mass spectrometers
- Desktop computers
- Total organic carbon TOC analyzers
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- Liquid chromatography detectors
- Mercury/hybrid atomizers
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- Centrifuges
- Luminometers
- California bearing ratio CBR testing devices
- Ultraviolet water purification systems
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- XP Software XPSWMM
- LINDO
- Greenhouse gas management software
- Geomechanical design analysis GDA software
- Material safety data sheet MSDS software
- Microsoft Word
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- Simulation software
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- Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D
- Gas dispersion model software
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- SofTech CADRA
- Rockwell Automation Arena
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- Simultaneous location and mapping SLAM
- ANSYS
- Microsoft Office
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- Image analysis software
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- Continuous emission management software
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- Water flow modeling software
- Insightful S-PLUS
- Computer aided design CAD software
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Ecological risk assessment software
- Bentley Microstation
- Stormwater runoff modeling software
- ESRI ArcGIS software
- Finite element method FEM software
- Air dispersion modeling software
- Microsoft Project
- Wind flow modeling software
- Hazardous materials management HMS software
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Formula translation/translator FORTRAN
- C++
- ESRI ArcView
- Fugitive emission leak detection software
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- Site remediation management software
- Oil mapping software
- RockWare MODFLOW
- Hydrologic simulation program fortan HSPF software