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