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