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