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