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Job Description
Apply theory and principles of environmental engineering to modify, test, and operate equipment and devices used in the prevention, control, and remediation of environmental problems, including waste treatment and site remediation, under the direction of engineering staff or scientist. May assist in the development of environmental remediation devices.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 17-3025.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 52,500.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 25.00
- Currently, there are 16,550 people on this job
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Environmental Engineering Technicians”.
Also Known As…
- Environmental Engineering Technicians
- Senior Environmental Technician
- Industrial Waste Inspector
- Haz Tech (Hazardous Technician)
- Environmental Technician
- Environmental Specialist
- Environmental Field Technician
- Environmental Engineering Technician
- Environmental Engineering Assistant
- Engineer Technician
- Air Quality Instrument Specialist
- Water Pollution Control Technician
- Soil Technician
- Soil Field Technician
- Pollution Control Technician
- Pollution Control Engineering Technician
- Environmental Remediation Engineering Technician
- Environmental Field Team Member
- Environmental Field Professional
- Environmental Engineering Aide
- Engineering Technician
- Engineering Inspection Assistant
- Engineering Assistant
- Compliance Aide
- Air Technician
- Air Pollution Specialist
- Air Moving Technician
- Air Analysis Technician
- Air Analysis Engineering Technician
Tasks for “Air Analyst”
- Prepare permit applications or review compliance with environmental permits.
- Review technical documents to ensure completeness and conformance to requirements.
- Maintain process parameters and evaluate process anomalies.
- Assess the ability of environments to naturally remove or reduce conventional or emerging contaminants from air, water, or soil.
- Develop work plans, including writing specifications or establishing material, manpower, or facilities needs.
- Assist in the cleanup of hazardous material spills.
- Improve chemical processes to reduce toxic emissions.
- Create models to demonstrate or predict the process by which pollutants move through or impact an environment.
- Prepare and package environmental samples for shipping or testing.
- Receive, set up, test, or decontaminate equipment.
- Inspect facilities to monitor compliance with regulations governing substances such as asbestos, lead, or wastewater.
- Perform environmental quality work in field or office settings.
- Perform statistical analysis and correction of air or water pollution data submitted by industry or other agencies.
- Maintain project logbook records or computer program files.
- Oversee support staff.
- Collect and analyze pollution samples, such as air or ground water.
- Decontaminate or test field equipment used to clean or test pollutants from soil, air, or water.
- Produce environmental assessment reports, tabulating data and preparing charts, graphs, or sketches.
- Work with customers to assess the environmental impact of proposed construction or to develop pollution prevention programs.
- Record laboratory or field data, including numerical data, test results, photographs, or summaries of visual observations.
- Provide technical engineering support in the planning of projects, such as wastewater treatment plants, to ensure compliance with environmental regulations and policies.
- Evaluate and select technologies to clean up polluted sites, restore polluted air, water, or soil, or rehabilitate degraded ecosystems.
- Arrange for the disposal of lead, asbestos, or other hazardous materials.
- Obtain product information, identify vendors or suppliers, or order materials or equipment to maintain inventory.
- Review work plans to schedule activities.
- Model biological, chemical, or physical treatment processes to remove or degrade pollutants.
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- Incubators
- Visible spectrometers
- Spectrophotometers
- Graduated cylinders
- Chemical fume hoods
- Anaerobic laboratory glove bags
- Autotitration systems
- Erlenmeyer flasks
- Argon lasers
- Laser printers
- Electrophoresis tanks
- Single particle spectroscopes
- Mercury analysis equipment
- Autoclaves
- California bearing ratio CBR testing devices
- Benchtop nephelometers
- Conductivity meters
- Analytical balances
- Plasma spectrometers
- Anaerobic laboratory scale reactors
- Global positioning system GPS receivers
- Gas mass spectroscopes
- Personal computers
- Microscope slides
- Differential mobility analyzers
- Phase contrast microscopes
- Biological oxidizers
- Two-vortex mixers
- Freeze dryers
- Aerobic laboratory scale reactors
- Pan balances
- Gel documentation systems
- Blenders
- Groundwater sampling equipment
- Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay ELISA plate readers
- Laboratory ovens
- Total organic halide analyzers
- Desktop computers
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- Ion chromatographs
- Air monitoring equipment
- Hazardous material protective clothing
- Total internal reflection fluorescence TIRF microscopes
- Low pressure liquid chromatographs with fraction collectors
- Fermenters
- Air velocity meters
- Titrators
- Scintillation counters
- Furnaces
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- Binocular light compound microscopes
- Spectrofluorimeters
- Laboratory scales
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- Water samplers
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- Epifluorescence microscopes
- Photometers
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- Microcentrifuges
- Zeta meters
- Optical compound microscopes
- Mixer mills
- Digital cameras
- Laminar flow hoods
- Aeration pumps
- Biosafety cabinets
- Sterilizer chambers
- Microtox toxicity systems
- Electrophoresis equipment
- Liquid handling robots
- Camera-equipped microscopes
- Balances
- Toxicity analyzers
- Water quality monitors
- Soil vapor sampling equipment
- Soil permeability testers
- Anemometers
- Proton nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectrometers
- Particle size analyzers
- Low pressure reverse osmosis water treatment systems
- Video microscopes
- Filter press simulators
- High-speed centrifuges
- Inverted microscopes
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- Freezers
- Transmission electron microscopes TEM
- Glassware condensers
- Bailers
- Total organic carbon TOC analyzers
- Scanning probe microscopes SPM
- Particulate filters
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- Dessicator chambers
- Flow injection analyzers
- Surface area analyzers
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- SofTech CADRA
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- Laboratory information management system LIMS
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