Environmental Specialist Duties & Responsibilities
The role and function of an Environmental Specialist includes the following duties and responsibilities:
- Research and analyze proposed worldwide environmental projects using scientific data.
- Help clients comply with regulations.
- Collect and analyze test samples of food, soil, water, and air.
- Create industrial wastewater treatment systems.
- Prevent environmental damage.
- Participate in the cleanup of hazardous sites.
- Evaluate significance of hazards and determine proper disposal and management methods.
- Advise on treatment and containment.
- Develop regulations to prevent catastrophes.
- Perform on the environmental impact of construction projects.
- Analyze scientific data.
- Perform quality control checks and correct malfunctioning equipment.
- Study affects of acid rain, auto emissions, ozone depletion, and global warming and find solutions to these global problems.
- Create regulations to protect wildlife.
- Design municipal water supplies.
- Advise federal, state, and local governments on the best ways to expand highways, create new towns and cities, and how to reuse and recycle waste.
- Create solutions to environmental problems.
- Build upon existing solutions to make them better.
- Conduct hazardous waste management studies.
Note that this is not an exhaustive list of Environmental Specialist duties and responsibilities. Job functions for specific Environmental Specialist roles may vary, depending on the industry and type of employer.
