What are the promising career paths for environmental engineering majors

What are the promising career directions for environmental engineering majors

I. Engineering design class (environmental engineering and water supply and drainage)

Nature of work: the main business in this field is a variety of environmental engineering projects (sewage treatment, landfill, gas purification and so on) design and supporting equipment installation, construction and so on.

Working units: environmental protection companies / design institutes, is currently the most extensive environmental students to go. In the early days, environmental protection companies more small, dry three or four years can become a major figure, but because of the small size of the company, management and informal, generally low income

Future development: so looking for a strong and promising environmental protection company in which to continue to enhance the focus of the career home, if you meet the entrepreneurial opportunities, and then seize the opportunity.

Certification of registered environmental engineers will be prompted by the formalization of the industry and enhance the income of this type of career a turn. II. Environmental consulting

Nature of the work: environmental consulting services, including environmental impact assessment, environmental engineering consulting, environmental supervision, environmental management system and environmental labeling product certification, organic food certification, environmental technology assessment, product life cycle assessment, cleaner production audit and training, environmental information services.

1. Environmental Assessment

The induction certificate of EIA is a personal qualification for doing EIA, which can be taken one year after joining the work. The senior is a registered EIA engineer, EIA registered engineer is the state for the qualification of the practitioners to do EIA work, undergraduate graduation 5 years to test, the examination is difficult, there are 4, over the registration certificate, the pass rate of only 10% or so. And now do EIA units must have a certain number of EIA registered engineers to do EIA.

2. Environmental, occupational health and safety management system.

EHS management system is the integration of environmental management system (EMS) and occupational health and safety management system (OHSMS) two systems. Environmental, occupational health and safety management system, referred to as EHS management system.

Employment:

Environmental department of manufacturing industry of state-owned enterprises/foreign enterprises/famous enterprises, internal auditor of ISO14000 environmental management system. With the public's concern about environmental issues, companies are also setting up environmental departments to solve internal environmental problems and coordinate external environmental issues.

EHS certification unit: ISO14000 environmental management system external auditor.

Direction of development: environmental, occupational health and safety management system EHS manager is a very high salary of a career, of course, the professional knowledge of the breadth of the profession, the coordination of the actual problem solving ability and foreign language requirements are also very high.

Job characteristics: the nature of the work is "soft", usually work is to write environmental reports and other documents. The work may seem easy, but most of it is repetitive and often ancillary to engineering projects, which some people may find monotonous, boring and unchallenging. But the good thing about this kind of work is that you don't have to take risks, and the income is not low, and it's more appropriate for girls majoring in environment to engage in this kind of work.

Three. Sales and technical services

Nature of the work: environmental pollution control facilities operation can be seen as a management service. Our country now mainly refers to the socialized operation and management of facilities engaged in the management of municipal sewage, industrial wastewater, domestic garbage, industrial solid waste, exhaust gas and radioactive waste. These facilities were originally invested by the state construction, now encourage private capital to enter, the government is only responsible for a certain amount of operating costs. China's environmental pollution control facilities socialization, market-oriented operation has only just begun, the development of slower, the overall market scale is not large, but the potential is huge.

Working units: from small-scale water reuse equipment providers in small districts, to large-scale wastewater treatment plant operators in developed cities with millions of assets, and even a few listed companies, all competing in this field. Development prospects: the advantage of working in a large company is to receive systematic training in related careers, can learn a lot of things; in small companies have to deal with a lot of different matters, and perhaps soon be able to stand alone. So when looking for a job do not have to be bent on finding a big tree to cool off, suitable for their own is the best, after all, the industry has just started, and has great potential. Four. Environmental management class

Working unit: environmental management positions mainly in government departments, including environmental protection bureaus at all levels and their subordinate institutions. National environmental policy in recent years there has been a fundamental change: from the main administrative methods to protect the environment into a comprehensive use of legal, economic, technical and administrative methods necessary to solve environmental problems, consciously follow the laws of the economy and the laws of nature, and improve the level of environmental protection work. All this makes the government departments of environmental professionals in increasing demand.