| Important Core Job Duties (in order of importance) For the Top 5 most important - How can you build experience and skill doing these? This will help now, to begin preparing for this type of occupation. |
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| Importance (%) | Description |
| Importance: 100 (%) | Description: Assess the existing or potential environmental impact of land use projects on air, water, or land. |
| Importance: 100 (%) | Description: Attend professional conferences to share information. |
| Importance: 100 (%) | Description: Request bids from suppliers or consultants. |
| Importance: 100 (%) | Description: Obtain, update, or maintain plans, permits, or standard operating procedures. |
| Importance: 100 (%) | Description: Assist in budget implementation, forecasts, or administration. |
| Importance: 100 (%) | Description: Prepare or present public briefings on the status of environmental engineering projects. |
| Importance: 100 (%) | Description: Design, or supervise the design of, systems, processes, or equipment for control, management, or remediation of water, air, or soil quality. |
| Importance: 100 (%) | Description: Develop proposed project objectives and targets and report to management on progress in attaining them. |
| Importance: 100 (%) | Description: Collaborate with environmental scientists, planners, hazardous waste technicians, engineers, experts in law or business, or other specialists to address environmental problems. |
| Importance: 95 (%) | Description: Prepare, maintain, or revise quality assurance documentation or procedures. |
| Importance: 95 (%) | Description: Develop, implement, or manage plans or programs related to conservation or management of natural resources. |
| Importance: 95 (%) | Description: Provide assistance with planning, quality assurance, safety inspection protocols, or sampling as part of a team conducting multimedia inspections at complex facilities. |
| Importance: 95 (%) | Description: Provide environmental engineering assistance in network analysis, regulatory analysis, or planning or reviewing database development. |
| Importance: 95 (%) | Description: Provide administrative support for projects by collecting data, providing project documentation, training staff, or performing other general administrative duties. |
| Importance: 95 (%) | Description: Inspect industrial or municipal facilities or programs to evaluate operational effectiveness or ensure compliance with environmental regulations. |
| Importance: 95 (%) | Description: Direct installation or operation of environmental monitoring devices or supervise related data collection programs. |
| Importance: 95 (%) | Description: Coordinate or manage environmental protection programs or projects, assigning or evaluating work. |
| Importance: 90 (%) | Description: Advise corporations or government agencies of procedures to follow in cleaning up contaminated sites to protect people and the environment. |
| Importance: 90 (%) | Description: Advise industries or government agencies about environmental policies and standards. |
| Importance: 90 (%) | Description: Monitor progress of environmental improvement programs. |
| Importance: 90 (%) | Description: Develop or present environmental compliance training or orientation sessions. |
| Importance: 90 (%) | Description: Prepare, review, or update environmental investigation or recommendation reports. |
| Importance: 90 (%) | Description: Write reports or articles for Web sites or newsletters related to environmental engineering issues. |
| Importance: 86 (%) | Description: Inform company employees or other interested parties of environmental issues. |
| Importance: 81 (%) | Description: Serve as liaison with federal, state, or local agencies or officials on issues pertaining to solid or hazardous waste program requirements. |
| Importance: 81 (%) | Description: Provide technical support for environmental remediation or litigation projects, including remediation system design or determination of regulatory applicability. |
| Importance: 81 (%) | Description: Develop site-specific health and safety protocols, such as spill contingency plans or methods for loading or transporting waste. |
| Importance: 76 (%) | Description: Prepare hazardous waste manifests or land disposal restriction notifications. |
Engineering and Construction Technology Careers and Jobs
Select, Find and Prepare for Engineering and Construction Technology Careers and Jobs - all on one page
For hands-on people who want to work on construction sites and projects rather than in a design office. Use the tools below to see which engineering and construction technology roles fit your background and goals.
This major is applied and field-focused, preparing students for construction management and technical support roles rather than design-engineer roles. Use the tools below to explore Engineering and Construction Technology-related job titles sorted by growth rate, salary, or required education. You can start with entry points like Construction Technician, or look ahead to advanced roles such as Construction Project Manager or Estimator. Along the way, you will see specific certifications, such as OSHA 30-Hour Construction Certification, that can help you move up the career ladder.
Here is a short Helper Video 
This page will take you through 4 steps to (1) Select from Engineering and Construction Technology careers/jobs, (2) Find Engineering and Construction Technology job listings, (3) Prepare for Engineering and Construction Technology careers, and (4) Provide Engineering and Construction Technology career-specific resources.
Step 1: Select a Career/Job: This page starts with 4 ways for you to identify and select from listings of Engineering and Construction Technology careers/jobs:
A) Fastest Growing Engineering and Construction Technology Careers - 2023 to 2033 (est.)
These listings are based on job growth estimates and helps you to identify the fastest growing and evolving Engineering and Construction Technology careers. Some careers may not initially seem related to Engineering and Construction Technology, so relevant Engineering and Construction Technology jobs are listed alongside each listing. This can also help us to identify which careers (bottom of the listing) may have negative growth - perhaps due to automation or planned obsolescence.
B) Median Annual Salary U.S. Engineering and Construction Technology Careers
These listings are sorted (descending) by median annual salary in the U.S. This may help us to identify our ideal career. We may not qualify at this time for the desired career, but this listing and the results provided can help us to explore job details, as well as learn how to appropriately prepare for the career.
C) Engineering and Construction Technology Career Ladders (Educational Requirements)
These listings will help us to identify Engineering and Construction Technology careers sorted by educational requirements (with the most difficult to obtain listed first). This may help us to identify career ladders (as we scroll down the list), and help us to get jobs that we qualify for now.
D) Select From a Listing of 43 Engineering and Construction Technology Jobs.
The list may be quite long. There are two ways you might like to use this list:
1) Filter - As you enter a word, you will filter (limit) the list of job titles
2) Browse the list (Don't Filter) - You can simply explore the list of job titles. There may be many that you might never have considered to be of interest.
Once you have identified a job title of interest, simply click on it.
Step 2: Find a Job: After you have selected a career/job title above, you will see a form asking for your location. You will see several radio selection choices to utilize the job search site of your choice.
Step 3: Prepare For a Career: In this section you will gain access to detailed information to help you prepare for the chosen career. Information may include (not every career choice includes all of the elements below - updates occur quarterly):
Core Duties: Lists the primary worker-related tasks performed in this occupation
Supplemental Duties: Lists additional tasks that are performed but are secondary to the core duties
Work Activities: Summarizes the broad types of behaviors and actions related to this career
Specific Work Activities: Provides more granular day-to-day activities tied to the work performed
Essential Skills: Provides foundational skills that are core to performing this specific occupation
Transferable Skills: Provides career-portable skills that can be applied across multiple occupations and industries
Day-in-the-Life Summaries: Provides a snapshot of the key activities performed on a typical workday in this career
Knowledge Required: Provides the requirements regarding the acquisition of facts and principles
Software Skills: Lists software tools commonly used in this occupation, organized by category and priority
Preparation Required: Provides a summary of the required experience and education
Education Required: Detailed breakdown of the education required
Training and Experience Required: Detailed breakdown of the training and Training and Experience Required
Local Salary Information: Provides national and local salary ranges
Certifications: Provides appropriate government and private-sector certifications and/or credentials that may be required
Professional Associations: Provides professional associations that are related to the career selected
Job Listings: Provides links to active current job listings for the selected career, along with multiple similar job titles to explore. All information appears on this page without navigating away.
Related Careers to Consider: Lists up to 20 careers that might be of interest to you (related to your initial choice - what they do, what they know, and what they're called), ranked by best fit.
** If you clicked on a link from section D (as described in Step 1 above), you will see one or more links to an occupation that is usually a bit more general than your initial job selection - the link(s) is directly related to the specific job you identified through your prior selections.
*NOTE: It is possible that there may not be a career path identified for the specific job you selected in Step 1. If this is the case, scroll up the page and click on a different career/job.
Step 4: Career-Specific Resources (detailed and constantly updated): Continue to scroll down the page and you will find tabs that provide detailed (updated) links specific to the career you selected. This information includes:
Videos: Provides a listing of video links related to this career. A great way to get a quick overview of the occupation.
Resumes: Sources for resume materials and techniques. This can help to get you started.
Job Description: Sources that provide job descriptions, which are vital to resume and interview preparation.
Interviews: Provides links that can help you to prepare for and successfully complete the job interview. Can also assist with coffee chats.
Step by Step: Provides links to resources that can help to organize the career search process.
LinkedIn: One of the best professional social media sites that provides links, opportunities, and networking specifically for careers and career development.
Step 1 of 4: Select a Career/Job
16 Engineering and Construction Technology careers are listed below (sorted by Percentage Change in Total Job Openings - 2023 to 2033 est.). Engineering and Construction Technology-related jobs specific to each career are also provided. This shows which careers are emerging and growing the fastest. Please Scroll and Select below:
| Occupations | U.S. Job Openings 2023-2033 (% change) | Engineering and Construction Technology-Related Jobs |
18 Engineering and Construction Technology careers are listed below (sorted by U.S. National Median Salary). Engineering and Construction Technology-related jobs specific to each occupation are also provided. Please Scroll and Select below::
| Occupations | National Median Salary | Engineering and Construction Technology-Related Jobs |
20 Engineering and Construction Technology careers are listed (sorted by Education/Preparation Requirements - descending) to provide career ladders. Engineering and Construction Technology-related jobs specific to each career are also provided.
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Education/Preparation Categories: 5 = Usually requires graduate school (e.g., Master's degree, Ph.D., M.D., or J.D.) 4 = Usually requires a four-year Bachelor's degree 3 = Usually requires vocational training, related on-the-job experience, or Associate's degree 2 = Usually requires a high school diploma or GED, but not always Please Scroll and Select below: |
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| Occupations | Education/Preparation | Engineering and Construction Technology-Related Jobs |
Scroll through the picklist (below). There are 43 specific Engineering and Construction Technology job titles listed. Select those that may be of interest - you will get active job listing links, along with detailed resources to help you prepare for a career related to that job.
You can use this form two ways:
Filter - As you enter a keyword, you will filter (limit) the list of job titles below
Browse the list (Don't Filter) - You can simply explore the list of job titles. There may be many that you might never have considered to be of interest.
OR - leave blank and scroll through the choices:
Select a Job Title (Scroll and Select) :
Step 2 of 4: Find a Job
Find Job Listings:
Environmental Engineers.
Step 3 of 4: Prepare For a Career
Environmental Engineers
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.
Please click on a section below to expand and see detailed occupational information related to "Environmental Engineers":
U.S. Total Employment (2023):
52,300U.S. Total Employment (2033 est.):
54,300
Employment Change (2023-2033 est.):
1,900 (3.7%) Average Annual Job Openings (2023-2033 est.):
4,000
Core Duties
Supplemental Duties
| Important Supplemental Job Duties (in order of importance)
For the Top 5 most important - How can you build experience and skill doing these? This will help now, to begin preparing for this type of occupation. |
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| Importance (%) | Description |
| Importance: 57 (%) | Description: Assess, sort, characterize, or pack known or unknown materials. |
Work Activities
| Important General Work Activities (in order of importance)
For the Top 5 most important - How can you build experience and skill doing these? This will help now, to begin preparing for this type of occupation. |
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| Importance (%) | Description |
| Importance: 88 (%) | Description: Getting Information: Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources. |
| Importance: 88 (%) | Description: Working with Computers: Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information. |
| Importance: 87 (%) | Description: Making Decisions and Solving Problems: Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems. |
| Importance: 85 (%) | Description: Analyzing Data or Information: Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts. |
| Importance: 83 (%) | Description: Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings: Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems. |
| Importance: 83 (%) | Description: Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards: Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards. |
| Importance: 82 (%) | Description: Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates: Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person. |
| Importance: 81 (%) | Description: Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work: Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work. |
| Importance: 79 (%) | Description: Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events: Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events. |
| Importance: 79 (%) | Description: Processing Information: Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data. |
| Importance: 79 (%) | Description: Developing Objectives and Strategies: Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them. |
| Importance: 78 (%) | Description: Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment: Providing documentation, detailed instructions, drawings, or specifications to tell others about how devices, parts, equipment, or structures are to be fabricated, constructed, assembled, modified, maintained, or used. |
| Importance: 78 (%) | Description: Providing Consultation and Advice to Others: Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics. |
| Importance: 78 (%) | Description: Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others: Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used. |
| Importance: 77 (%) | Description: Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge: Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job. |
| Importance: 77 (%) | Description: Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others: Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks. |
| Importance: 76 (%) | Description: Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials: Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects. |
| Importance: 75 (%) | Description: Scheduling Work and Activities: Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others. |
| Importance: 75 (%) | Description: Communicating with People Outside the Organization: Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail. |
| Importance: 75 (%) | Description: Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships: Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time. |
| Importance: 74 (%) | Description: Thinking Creatively: Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions. |
| Importance: 74 (%) | Description: Documenting/Recording Information: Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form. |
| Importance: 74 (%) | Description: Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates: Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance. |
| Importance: 73 (%) | Description: Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information: Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity. |
| Importance: 73 (%) | Description: Developing and Building Teams: Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members. |
| Importance: 71 (%) | Description: Monitoring and Controlling Resources: Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money. |
| Importance: 71 (%) | Description: Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People: Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people. |
| Importance: 70 (%) | Description: Performing for or Working Directly with the Public: Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests. |
| Importance: 70 (%) | Description: Training and Teaching Others: Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others. |
| Importance: 69 (%) | Description: Coaching and Developing Others: Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills. |
| Importance: 67 (%) | Description: Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others: Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others. |
| Importance: 64 (%) | Description: Staffing Organizational Units: Recruiting, interviewing, selecting, hiring, and promoting employees in an organization. |
Specific Work Activities
| Important Specific Work Activities
How can you begin to build experience and skill doing these? This will help now, to begin preparing for this type of occupation. Specific Work Activities appear below: |
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| Advise others regarding green practices or environmental concerns. | |
| Assist engineers or scientists with research. | |
| Attend conferences or workshops to maintain professional knowledge. | |
| Confer with other personnel to resolve design or operational problems. | |
| Confer with technical personnel to prepare designs or operational plans. | |
| Design environmental control systems. | |
| Determine operational criteria or specifications. | |
| Develop technical methods or processes. | |
| Direct environmental development activities. | |
| Exchange information with colleagues. | |
| Explain project details to the general public. | |
| Inspect facilities or sites to determine if they meet specifications or standards. | |
| Investigate the environmental impact of projects. | |
| Maintain operational records or records systems. | |
| Monitor activities affecting environmental quality. | |
| Package materials for transport. | |
| Prepare detailed work plans. | |
| Prepare operational reports. | |
| Prepare procedural documents. | |
| Prepare project budgets. | |
| Prepare research or technical reports on environmental issues. | |
| Prepare technical or operational reports. | |
| Purchase materials, equipment, or other resources. | |
| Teach safety standards or environmental compliance methods. | |
| Test characteristics of materials or structures. | |
| Train personnel on proper operational procedures. | |
| Write reports or evaluations. | |
Knowledge Required
| Knowledge Required (in order of importance)
For the Top 5 most important - How can you build experience and skill doing these? This will help now, to begin preparing for this type of occupation. |
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| Importance (%) | Description |
| Importance: 97 (%) | Description: Engineering and Technology: Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services. |
| Importance: 91 (%) | Description: Design: Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models. |
| Importance: 79 (%) | Description: Chemistry: Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods. |
| Importance: 78 (%) | Description: Mathematics: Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications. |
| Importance: 76 (%) | Description: Building and Construction: Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads. |
| Importance: 75 (%) | Description: English Language: Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, and rules of composition and grammar. |
| Importance: 74 (%) | Description: Physics: Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub-atomic structures and processes. |
| Importance: 71 (%) | Description: Customer and Personal Service: Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. |
| Importance: 71 (%) | Description: Biology: Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment. |
| Importance: 71 (%) | Description: Computers and Electronics: Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming. |
| Importance: 67 (%) | Description: Law and Government: Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process. |
| Importance: 65 (%) | Description: Mechanical: Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance. |
| Importance: 64 (%) | Description: Administration and Management: Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources. |
| Importance: 61 (%) | Description: Economics and Accounting: Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data. |
| Importance: 60 (%) | Description: Public Safety and Security: Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions. |
Essential Skills
| Essential Skills (in order of importance)
These are the foundational skills most central to success in this occupation. For the Top 5 most important, how can you begin building experience and confidence using these skills now? |
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| Importance (%) | Description |
| Importance: 66 (%) | Description: Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents. |
| Importance: 66 (%) | Description: Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. |
| Importance: 66 (%) | Description: Writing: Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience. |
| Importance: 66 (%) | Description: Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively. |
| Importance: 66 (%) | Description: Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems. |
| Importance: 66 (%) | Description: Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. |
| Importance: 62 (%) | Description: Active Learning: Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. |
| Importance: 56 (%) | Description: Mathematics: Using mathematics to solve problems. |
| Importance: 56 (%) | Description: Science: Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems. |
Transferable Skills
| Transferable Skills (in order of importance)
These are skills that can transfer across occupations and industries. For the Top 5 most important, how can you strengthen these skills now so they support both this career and future career flexibility? |
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| Importance (%) | Description |
| Importance: 64 (%) | Description: Complex Problem Solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. |
| Importance: 64 (%) | Description: Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. |
| Importance: 62 (%) | Description: Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. |
| Importance: 54 (%) | Description: Systems Analysis: Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes. |
| Importance: 54 (%) | Description: Systems Evaluation: Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system. |
| Importance: 54 (%) | Description: Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others. |
Day-in-the-Life Summaries
| Day-in-the-Life Summaries These summaries show the main types of activities you are likely to perform on a regular basis in this occupation. How can you imagine your typical workday — using these examples to see if this type of work fits you? |
| Activity: Advise others on environmental sustainability or green practices. |
| Activity: Assist scientists, scholars, or technical specialists with projects or research. |
| Activity: Communicate with others about operational plans or activities. |
| Activity: Communicate with others about specifications or project details. |
| Activity: Coordinate with others to resolve problems. |
| Activity: Develop operational or technical procedures or standards. |
| Activity: Develop systems or practices to mitigate or resolve environmental problems. |
| Activity: Develop technical specifications for products or operations. |
| Activity: Direct organizational operations, activities, or procedures. |
| Activity: Document technical designs, procedures, or activities. |
| Activity: Inspect facilities or equipment. |
| Activity: Investigate the environmental impact of industrial or development activities. |
| Activity: Maintain current knowledge in area of expertise. |
| Activity: Maintain operational records. |
| Activity: Manage budgets or finances. |
| Activity: Monitor environmental conditions. |
| Activity: Package objects. |
| Activity: Plan work activities. |
| Activity: Prepare reports of operational or procedural activities. |
| Activity: Present research or technical information. |
| Activity: Provide information or assistance to the public. |
| Activity: Purchase goods or services. |
| Activity: Teach safety procedures or standards to others. |
| Activity: Test characteristics of materials or products. |
| Activity: Train others on operational or work procedures. |
Software Skills
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Software Skills These are examples of software tools commonly used in this occupation, organized from most to least important for your career preparation. How can you start learning or practicing the highest-priority tools so that you feel confident using them on the job? |
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Preparation Required
| Preparation Required - How much preparation is needed to obtain this type of job? |
| Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed |
| A considerable amount of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified. |
| Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not. |
| Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training. |
| Many of these occupations involve coordinating, supervising, managing, or training others. Examples include real estate brokers, sales managers, database administrators, graphic designers, conservation scientists, art directors, and cost estimators. |
Education Required
| Education Required - by frequency of educational attainment This shows you details about the level of education most commonly held by workers in this occupation. How can you begin planning the educational pathway that will prepare you best for this type of work? |
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| Frequency of Attainment (%) | Level of Education |
| Frequency of Attainment: 61.9 (%) | Level of Education: Bachelor's Degree |
| Frequency of Attainment: 28.6 (%) | Level of Education: Master's Degree |
| Frequency of Attainment: 4.8 (%) | Level of Education: Associate's Degree (or other 2-year degree) |
| Frequency of Attainment: 4.8 (%) | Level of Education: Post-Baccalaureate Certificate - awarded for completion of an organized program of study; designed for people who have completed a Baccalaureate degree but do not meet the requirements of academic degrees carrying the title of Master. |
Training and Experience Required
| Training and Experience Required - by frequency of training and work experience attainment This section shows you how often different types of training and work experience are required for this occupation. How can you start gaining the kinds of experience and training that are most common for this type of work? |
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| Frequency of Attainment (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience |
| Frequency of Attainment: 42.9 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: None |
| Frequency of Attainment: 14.3 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year |
| Frequency of Attainment: 14.3 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years |
| Frequency of Attainment: 14.3 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years |
| Frequency of Attainment: 4.8 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months |
| Frequency of Attainment: 4.8 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years |
| Frequency of Attainment: 4.8 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 6 years, up to and including 8 years |
Local Salary Information
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Certifications
Professional Associations
| Professional Associations These associations connect people who work in this occupation or related fields. How can you start using these associations to learn more, build your network, or find mentoring opportunities? |
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Academy of Board Certified Environmental Professionals (ABCEP)
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Air and Waste Management Association (AWMA)
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American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists (AAEES)
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EnviroCert International
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Environmental Markets Association (EMA)
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Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN)
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International Solid Waste Association (ISWA)
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National Association of Environmental Professionals (NAEP)
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National Registry of Environmental Professionals (NREP)
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National Waste & Recycling Association
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U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC)
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Job Listings
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Related Careers to Consider
Step 4 of 4: Career-Specific Resources
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Videos
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Resumes
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Job Description
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Interviews
There are many great resources that can help guide you through the interview process. These links provide help in preparing and performing an effective interview, specific to this occupation.
Step-by-Step
Here are links to help guide you, step-by-step, to become a(n): Environmental Engineers
LinkedIn®
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