Environmental Compliance Inspectors
Inspect and investigate sources of pollution to protect the public and environment and ensure conformance with Federal, State, and local regulations and ordinances.
Also called: Enforcement Officer, Environmental Compliance Officer, Environmental Specialist, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Enforcement Officer (RCRA Enforcement Officer)
Knowledge:
- law and government
- public safety and security
- chemistry
- arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics
Engineering and Technology
- computers and electronics
Skills:
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- reading work related information
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
People and Technology Systems
- thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
- figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
Abilites:
- communicate by speaking
- listen and understand what people say
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
- notice when problems happen
- quickly compare groups of letters, numbers, pictures, or other things
- see hidden patterns
- choose the right type of math to solve a problem
Personality:
Description: People interested in this work like activities that include data, detail, and regular routines.
They do well at jobs that need
- Integrity
- Attention to Detail
- Analytical Thinking
- Self Control
- Stress Tolerance
- Dependability
Technology:
Analytical or scientific software
- DQO-PRO
- Environmental Knowledge and Assessment Tool EKAT
Data base user interface and query software
- Database software
- Microsoft Access
Project management software
- Microsoft Project
- Microsoft SharePoint
