Environmental consultant

You’ll evaluate the environmental impact of new developments or industries, giving technical advice and assessments for your clients.

You can help businesses to reduce their impact on the environment by changing to ‘greener’ processes and practices. For example, you might work with a chemical company to limit the levels of pollutants it releases into the air.

You’ll need to understand laws and business practices so you can work with organisations in a competitive commercial world.

You might advise on any issue including:

• renewable energy

• flood risk

• waste and recycling

• carbon emissions

• climate change and emission management

Your tasks might include:

• seeing if sites are suitable for new developments such as power stations or wind farms

• working out the impact and risk from industries such as energy or chemical production

• assessing business practices to make sure organisations meet environmental laws

• collecting data in field studies and writing reports

• investigating contamination and reporting organisations who break environmental rules

• responding to environmental accidents and managing cleanup operations

• advising industry, organisations or the government on issues such as the disposal of waste

Green job 

In this job you'll be doing work to help the environment. Find out more about green jobs. 

• Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management - training courses

• Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment

• GreenJobs - Find environmental job vacancies