From environmental technician to environmental engineer
12 of the 52 essential skills of a environmental engineer are already essential for a environmental technician — about 23% of the job, before you learn anything new. It is the closest move from environmental technician in the whole taxonomy.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 12
- skills carry over
- 40
- would be new
- 23%
- of the target job covered
- 52
- essential skills of a environmental engineer
What a environmental engineer does
Environmental engineers integrate environmental and sustainable measures in the development of projects of various natures. They seek to preserve natural resources and natural sites. They work together with engineers from other fields to envision all the implications that projects might have in order to design ways to conserve natural reserves, prevent pollution, and deploy sanitary measures.
What carries over
12 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
What would be new
40 skillsEssential for a environmental engineer and not for a environmental technician. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- abide by regulations on banned materials
- address public health issues
- adjust engineering designs
- approve engineering design
- augmented reality
- biology
- carry out environmental audits
- circular economy
- civil engineering
- cloud technologies
- coastal management
- conduct environmental surveys
- conduct quantitative research
- cyber security
- data storage
- develop environmental remediation strategies
- ecosystem management
- engineering principles
- engineering processes
- ensure compliance with safety legislation
- environmental engineering
- environmental policy
- implement traceability systems
- legal studies
- mining, construction and civil engineering machinery products
- monitor nature conservation
- perform data analysis
- perform scientific research
- pollution legislation
- pollution prevention
- process customer requests based on the REACh Regulation 1907 2006
- product life-cycle
- promote environmental awareness
- public health
- radiation protection
- regulations on substances
- risk management
- sensors
- technical drawings
- use technical drawing software
← environmental technicianenvironmental engineer →The other way round
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