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Environmental Engineers
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Environmental Engineers
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Design, plan, or perform engineering duties in the prevention, control, and remediation of environmental health hazards utilizing various engineering disciplines. Work may include waste treatment, site remediation, or pollution control technology.
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Degrees
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Abilities
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Oral Comprehension| | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. |
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Oral Expression| | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. |
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Deductive Reasoning| | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. |
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Written Comprehension| | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. |
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Written Expression| | The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. |
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Problem Sensitivity| | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. |
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Inductive Reasoning| | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). |
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Information Ordering| | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). |
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Near Vision| | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). |
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Originality| | The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem. |
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Category Flexibility| | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. |
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Fluency of Ideas| | The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity). |
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Selective Attention| | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. |
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Mathematical Reasoning| | The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem. |
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Flexibility of Closure| | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. |
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Speech Recognition| | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. |
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Speech Clarity| | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. |
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Time Sharing| | The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources). |
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Far Vision| | The ability to see details at a distance. |
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Perceptual Speed| | The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. |
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Visualization| | The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. |
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Auditory Attention| | The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds. |
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Memorization| | The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures. |
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Speed of Closure| | The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns. |
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Depth Perception| | The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object. |
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Visual Color Discrimination| | The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness. |
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Trunk Strength| | The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing. |
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Arm-Hand Steadiness| | The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. |
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Manual Dexterity| | The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. |
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Finger Dexterity| | The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. |
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Hearing Sensitivity| | The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness. |
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Control Precision| | The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. |
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Number Facility| | The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly. |
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Gross Body Coordination| | The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion. |
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Spatial Orientation| | The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you. |
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Stamina| | The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath. |
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Multilimb Coordination| | The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion. |
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Static Strength| | The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects. |
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Knowledge
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Education and Training| | Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects. |
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Mathematics| | Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications. |
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Law and Government| | Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process. |
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Administration and Management| | Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources. |
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Public Safety and Security| | Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions. |
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Engineering and Technology| | Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services. |
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English Language| | Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. |
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Chemistry| | Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods. |
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Clerical| | Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology. |
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Design| | Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models. |
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Computers and Electronics| | Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming. |
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Biology| | Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment. |
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Physics| | Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub- atomic structures and processes. |
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Customer and Personal Service| | Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. |
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Building and Construction| | Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads. |
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Mechanical| | Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance. |
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Sales and Marketing| | Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems. |
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Personnel and Human Resources| | Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems. |
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Communications and Media| | Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media. |
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Geography| | Knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea, and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life. |
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Transportation| | Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits. |
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Production and Processing| | Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods. |
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Psychology| | Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders. |
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Medicine and Dentistry| | Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures. |
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Telecommunications| | Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems. |
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Economics and Accounting| | Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking and the analysis and reporting of financial data. |
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History and Archeology| | Knowledge of historical events and their causes, indicators, and effects on civilizations and cultures. |
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Sociology and Anthropology| | Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures and their history and origins. |
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Therapy and Counseling| | Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and for career counseling and guidance. |
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Philosophy and Theology| | Knowledge of different philosophical systems and religions. This includes their basic principles, values, ethics, ways of thinking, customs, practices, and their impact on human culture. |
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Food Production| | Knowledge of techniques and equipment for planting, growing, and harvesting food products (both plant and animal) for consumption, including storage/handling techniques. |
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Foreign Language| | Knowledge of the structure and content of a foreign (non-English) language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition and grammar, and pronunciation. |
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Wages
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| District of Columbia | $78,910.00 |
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| North Carolina | $66,210.00 |
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| South Carolina | $60,470.00 |
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Skills
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Writing| | Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience. |
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Coordination| | Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. |
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Reading Comprehension| | Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. |
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Mathematics| | Using mathematics to solve problems. |
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Active Listening| | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. |
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Critical Thinking| | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. |
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Active Learning| | Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. |
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Science| | Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems. |
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Complex Problem Solving| | Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. |
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Judgment and Decision Making| | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. |
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Speaking| | Talking to others to convey information effectively. |
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Monitoring| | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. |
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Persuasion| | Persuading others to change their minds or behavior. |
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Instructing| | Teaching others how to do something. |
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Negotiation| | Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences. |
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Management of Financial Resources| | Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures. |
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Social Perceptiveness| | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. |
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Learning Strategies| | Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things. |
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Time Management| | Managing one's own time and the time of others. |
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Equipment Selection| | Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job. |
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Systems Analysis| | Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes. |
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Systems Evaluation| | Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system. |
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Technology Design| | Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs. |
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Operations Analysis| | Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design. |
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Service Orientation| | Actively looking for ways to help people. |
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Quality Control Analysis| | Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance. |
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Management of Personnel Resources| | Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job. |
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Management of Material Resources| | Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work. |
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Troubleshooting| | Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it. |
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Programming| | Writing computer programs for various purposes. |
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Operation Monitoring| | Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly. |
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Operation and Control| | Controlling operations of equipment or systems. |
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Equipment Maintenance| | Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed. |
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Repairing| | Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools. |
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Installation| | Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications. |
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Tasks
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| Prepare, review, and update environmental investigation and recommendation reports. |
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| Collaborate with environmental scientists, planners, hazardous waste technicians, engineers, and other specialists, and experts in law and business to address environmental problems. |
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| Obtain, update, and maintain plans, permits, and standard operating procedures. |
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| Provide technical-level support for environmental remediation and litigation projects, including remediation system design and determination of regulatory applicability. |
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| Develop site-specific health and safety protocols, such as spill contingency plans and methods for loading and transporting waste. |
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| Monitor progress of environmental improvement programs. |
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| Inspect industrial and municipal facilities and programs to evaluate operational effectiveness and ensure compliance with environmental regulations. |
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| Coordinate and manage environmental protection programs and projects, assigning and evaluating work. |
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| Provide administrative support for projects by collecting data, providing project documentation, training staff, and performing other general administrative duties. |
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| Serve as liaison with federal, state, and local agencies and officials on issues pertaining to solid and hazardous waste program requirements. |
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| Develop proposed project objectives and targets, and report to management on progress in attaining them. |
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| Advise corporations and government agencies of procedures to follow in cleaning up contaminated sites to protect people and the environment. |
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| Design systems, processes, and equipment for control, management, and remediation of water, air, and soil quality. |
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| Advise industries and government agencies about environmental policies and standards. |
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| Inform company employees and other interested parties of environmental issues. |
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| Prepare hazardous waste manifests and land disposal restriction notifications. |
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| Serve on teams conducting multimedia inspections at complex facilities, providing assistance with planning, quality assurance, safety inspection protocols, and sampling. |
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| Assess the existing or potential environmental impact of land use projects on air, water, and land. |
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| Develop and present environmental compliance training or orientation sessions. |
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| Assist in budget implementation, forecasts, and administration. |
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| Develop, implement, and manage plans and programs related to conservation and management of natural resources. |
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| Maintain, write, and revise quality assurance documentation and procedures. |
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| Assess, sort, characterize, and pack known and unknown materials. |
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| Request bids from suppliers or consultants. |
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| Provide environmental engineering assistance in network analysis, regulatory analysis, and planning or reviewing database development. |
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Tools
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| Air samplers or collectors |
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| Sampling trains |
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| Air sampling pumps |
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| Sampling pumps |
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| Air velocity and temperature monitors |
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| Air velocity meters |
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| Ambient air measurement devices |
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| Nitrogen oxide burners |
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| Anaerobic chamber |
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| Anaerobic growth chambers |
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| Atomic absorption AA spectrometers |
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| Atomizers |
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| Mercury/hybrid atomizers |
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| Augers |
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| Stem augers |
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| Autosamplers |
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| Headspace autosamplers |
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| Bacteria transformation kits |
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| Chemostats |
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| Bench refractometers or polarimeters |
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| Interferometeric refractormeters |
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| Benchtop centrifuges |
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| Centrifuges |
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| Chemical absorption gas analyzers |
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| Surface area analyzers |
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| Chemiluminescence or bioluminescence analyzers |
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| Fluorescence detectors |
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| Microbics toxicity analyzers |
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| Chromatographic detectors |
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| Liquid chromatography detectors |
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| Ultraviolet light detectors |
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| Colorimeters |
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| Conductivity meters |
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| Soil electrical conductivity measurement devices |
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| Core drills |
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| Drill rigs |
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| Limnological coring drills |
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| Density gradient fractionators |
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| Universal fractionators |
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| Desktop computers |
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| Dissolution or disintegration testers |
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| Soil modulus failure testing devices |
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| Soil-erodability testing devices |
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| Dissolved carbon dioxide analyzers |
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| Respirometers |
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| Dissolved oxygen meters |
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| Electrometers |
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| Electron capture detectors ECD |
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| Electronic counters |
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| Particle counters |
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| Electronic measuring probes |
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| Environmental probe systems |
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| Individual burner air measurement IBAM probes |
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| Extracting equipment for laboratories |
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| Supercritical fluid extractors |
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| Filtering machinery |
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| Particulate filters |
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| Flame ionization analyzers |
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| Flame emission detectors |
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| Flame ionization detectors |
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| Flowmeters |
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| Flow meters |
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| Pitot tubes |
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| Fluorescent microscopes |
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| Epifluorescence microscopes |
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| Forced air or mechanical convection general purpose incubators |
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| Air incubators |
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| Incubators |
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| Freeze dryers or lyopholizers |
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| Freeze dryers |
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| Fume hoods or cupboards |
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| Hoods |
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| Gas chromatographs |
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| Gas detector tubes |
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| Multi gas detector tubes |
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| Sorbent tubes |
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| Gas gauges |
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| Gas meters |
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| Global positioning system receivers |
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| Global positioning system GPS devices |
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| Instrumentation for capillary electrophoresis |
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| Capillary electrophoresis systems |
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| Ion chromatographs |
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| Ionmeters |
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| Argon ionization detectors |
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| Isolation glove boxes |
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| Glovebox systems |
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| Laboratory balances |
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| Balances |
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| Laboratory mechanical convection ovens |
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| Ovens |
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| Laboratory microwave ovens |
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| Microwave digestion instruments |
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| Liquid scintillation counters |
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| Mass spectrometers |
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| Plasma-mass spectrometers |
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| Trace metal analyzers |
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| Mud pumps |
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| Electric pumps |
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| Nitrogen or nitrate or nitrite analyzer |
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| Soil carbon-nitrogen CN analyzers |
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| Notebook computers |
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| Open stream current meters |
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| Current meters |
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| Open stream water level recorders |
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| Water level gauges |
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| Wave gauges |
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| Orbital shakers |
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| Shakers |
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| Organic carbon analyzers |
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| Total organic carbon TOC analyzers |
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| Ozone analyzers |
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| Ozonators |
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| Penetrometers |
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| California bearing ratio CBR testing devices |
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| Permeability testing apparatus |
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| Consolidometers |
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| pH meters |
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| Photo attachments for microscopes |
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| Charge-coupled device CCD cameras |
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| Photometers |
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| Laser photometers |
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| Luminometers |
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| Potentiometers |
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| Scanning potentiostats |
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| Programmable tube furnaces |
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| Graphite furnaces |
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| Rotary drills |
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| Mud rotary drills |
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| Sample holders |
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| Whole air canisters |
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| Sample oxidizer |
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| Biological oxidizers |
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| Seismic recorders or seismographs |
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| Seismographs |
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| Shear strength testers |
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| Direct shear testing devices |
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| Solid shear failure testing devices |
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| Single gas monitors |
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| Combustible gas meters |
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| Soil core sampling apparatus |
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| Geoprobes |
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| Limnological core loggers |
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| Spectrophotometers |
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| Atomic absorption AA spectrophotometers |
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| Fluorescence spectrophotometers |
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| Steam autoclaves or sterilizers |
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| Autoclaves |
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| Thermal conductivity analyzers |
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| Thermal conductivity detectors |
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| Thermocouples |
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| Titration equipment |
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| Automatic titrators |
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| Ultra violet water purification units |
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| Water purification systems |
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| Vacuum or centrifugal concentrators |
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| Sample concentrators |
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| Water analyzers |
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| Multi-parameter water quality monitoring instruments |
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| Nutrient analyzers |
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| Water samplers |
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| Stormwater samplers |
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Technology
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| Analytical or scientific software |
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| Air dispersion modeling software |
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| ANSYS software |
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| DHI Water and Environment MIKE SHE |
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| Ecological risk assessment software |
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| Finite element method FEM software |
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| Gas dispersion model software |
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| HEC RAS |
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| Hydrologic simulation program fortan HSPF software |
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| Insightful S-PLUS |
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| LINDO Systems software |
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| Maplesoft Maple |
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| Mathworks MATLAB |
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| RockWare MODFLOW |
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| Rockwell Automation Arena/SIMAN |
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| SAS software |
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| Simulation software |
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| Site remediation management software |
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| Stormwater runoff modeling software |
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| WAM software |
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| Waste management software |
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| Water flow modeling software |
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| Wind flow modeling software |
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| XP Software XPSWMM |
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| Compliance software |
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| Continuous emission management software |
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| Environmental health and safety documentation software |
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| Greenhouse gas management software |
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| Hazardous materials management software |
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| Material safety data sheet MSDS software |
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| Regulatory compliance management software |
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| Computer aided design CAD software |
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| Autodesk AutoCAD |
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| Bentley Microstation |
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| Kubotek CADkey |
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| SofTech CADRA |
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| Data base user interface and query software |
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| Microsoft Access |
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| Development environment software |
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| Formula translation/translator FORTRAN |
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| Graphics or photo imaging software |
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| Photogrammetric software |
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| Slam software |
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| Industrial control software |
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| Fugitive emission leak detection software |
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| Map creation software |
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| Geomechanical design analysis GDA software |
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| Oil mapping software |
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| Object or component oriented development software |
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| C++ |
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| Python |
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| Optical character reader OCR or scanning software |
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| Image analysis software |
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| Presentation software |
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| Microsoft PowerPoint |
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| Spreadsheet software |
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| Microsoft Excel |
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| Word processing software |
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| Microsoft Word |
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