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