Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where an environmental technician can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an environmental technician already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Environmental technicians investigate sources of pollution and aid in the development of pollution prevention and environment protection plans. They take samples of soil, water or other materials and perform tests to analyse the pollution level and identify its source.

Also known as environmental protection technician, environmental conservation technician, pollution control technician, groundwater protection technician, pollution prevention technician.

Professionals 69 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: groundwater monitoring technician, 43%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
groundwater monitoring techni… 43% covered environmental expert 43% covered decontamination worker 41% covered air pollution analyst 39% covered water quality analyst 37% covered environmental technician You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from environmental technician, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role an environmental technician already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

An environmental technician needs 37 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • analyse information processes information skills
  • predictive maintenance engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • human-robot collaboration engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • remote sensing techniques natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • advise on carbon emissions reduction communication, collaboration and creativity
  • advise on chemical use reduction communication, collaboration and creativity
  • conduct environmental site assessments information skills
  • machine learning information and communication technologies (icts)
  • advise on environmental risk management systems information skills
  • metrology education
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an environmental technician does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Environmental technician is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an environmental technician’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.