Environmental engineers
NKPD code: 2143
Description
Environmental engineers conduct research, advise on, design and directly implement solutions to prevent, control or reduce the harmful effects of human activity on the environment, applying knowledge from various engineering disciplines. They carry out environmental assessments of construction and civil engineering structures and apply engineering principles to pollution control, recycling and waste disposal. Environmental engineers perform the following main tasks: • conducting research, assessing and reporting on the environmental impact of existing and proposed construction works, structures or other activities; • inspecting industrial and municipal facilities and programmes to evaluate operational effectiveness and ensure compliance with environmental regulations; • designing and overseeing the development of systems, processes and equipment for the control, management or remediation of water, air or soil quality; • providing professional environmental assistance in network and regulatory analysis, and planning or reviewing database development; • obtaining, updating and maintaining plans, permits and standard operating procedures; • providing engineering and technical support for environmental remediation projects and litigation, including the design of remediation systems, and determining their regulatory applicability; • monitoring environmental improvement programmes; • advising enterprises and government agencies on procedures to follow in cleaning up contaminated sites to ensure the protection of people and the environment; • collaborating with environmental scientists, planners, hazardous waste technicians, engineers from other disciplines and legal and business specialists to address environmental problems. Examples of occupations in this unit group: – Engineer, ecology – Engineer, air pollution control – Engineer, waste-water treatment – Specialist, environmental remediation Excludes: – Research scientist, ecology – 2133 – Expert, occupational health and safety – 2263