Where an environmental engineer can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an environmental engineer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
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.
Also known as environmental engineering consultant, agricultural conservation engineer, industrial environmental engineer, water pollution engineer, environmental analyst, environmental engineering expert, environmental specialist for water management, air protection environmental engineer, sanitary engineer, environmental engineering adviser, environment engineer, chemical environmental engineer.
Professionals 83 skills on file 12 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: waste treatment engineer, 50%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
- waste treatment engineer 50% covered · difficulty 55.2
- geological engineer 47% covered · difficulty 57.9
- wastewater engineer 42% covered · difficulty 59.4
- environmental programme coordinator 41% covered · difficulty 66.8
- environmental expert 39% covered · difficulty 67.7
- manufacturing engineer 39% covered · difficulty 60.6
- industrial waste inspector 39% covered · difficulty 59
- agricultural engineer 37% covered · difficulty 63.1
- hazardous materials inspector 37% covered · difficulty 64.8
- research engineer 37% covered · difficulty 61.7
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
An environmental engineer needs 52 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- implement traceability systems communication, collaboration and creativity
- analyse information processes information skills
- legal studies business, administration and law
- monitor nature conservation information skills
- process customer requests based on the REACh Regulation 1907 2006 assisting and caring
- product life-cycle business, administration and law
- coastal management natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
- machine learning information and communication technologies (icts)
- address public health issues management skills
- conduct environmental surveys information skills
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Environmental engineer is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an environmental engineer’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.