Environmental Engineers
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Job Description
Environmental engineers help maintain clean and healthy surroundings through the protection of air, soil, and water quality.
Working as an Environmental Engineer you perform the following duties:
- Assess industrial sites to determine if they satisfy environmental quality criteria.
- Design waste-treatment and pollution-control plans.
- Monitor sites and procedures to confirm that private and public operations are in compliance with environmental regulations.
- Design safe solid waste transfer and disposal sites, water distribution and treatment systems, and wastewater collection and treatment systems.
- Recommend procedures to clean up sites that have been contaminated with harmful materials.
- Advise governments or companies of steps necessary to clean up sites and design cost-effective procedures for site remediation.
- Write and evaluate environmental impact statements
Sources: WorkBC Career Profile for Civil Engineers, Career Cruising (profile of environmental engineer), ECO Canada, Environmental Engineer Career Profile