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Environment Professionals

Jobholders in this unit group investigate, address, and advise on a variety of terrestrial and marine environment and resource management issues, including the development and implementation of environmental policies and remedies that address the impacts of human activities and industrial processes on the environment.

Average Salary

£35,866

New workers start around £20,853. Normal pay is £35,866 per year. Highly experienced workers can earn up to £67,224.

Jobs

37,845

The number of jobs in the career for the current year.

Daily Tasks

  • Provides professional guidance to clients, government agencies, regulators and other relevant bodies, having regard for sustainable approaches and solutions.

  • Implements, reviews and advises on regulatory and legislative standards, guidelines and policies.

  • Assists organisations to conduct their activities in an environmentally appropriate manner.

  • Communicates scientific and technical information to relevant audiences in an appropriate form, via reports, workshops, educational events, public hearings.

  • Carries out environmental audits and environmental impact assessments.

  • Carries out environment-related desk-based research and fieldwork to collect, analyse and interpret data to determine their validity, quality and significance.

  • Implements remediation works.

  • Advises on and provides solutions for mitigating the effects of such contamination.

  • Identifies contamination of land, air or water and assesses any adverse impact on the environment.

Hard skills

Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.

  • Sustainability

  • Risk Analysis

  • Auditing

  • Environmental Science

  • Environment Health And Safety

Soft skills

Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.

  • Management

  • Communications

  • Planning

  • Investigation

  • Infrastructure

How do I get a job like this?

People in these types of job started their career paths after studying courses like the ones below.