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Brownfield Redevelopment Specialists & Site Managers

Also called: Brownfield Program Director, Brownfield Redevelopment Coordinator, Brownfields Practice Leader, Environmental Program Manager

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What they do:
Plan and direct cleanup and redevelopment of contaminated properties for reuse. Does not include properties sufficiently contaminated to qualify as Superfund sites.
On the job, you would:
  • Identify environmental contamination sources.
  • Coordinate on-site activities for environmental cleanup or remediation projects to ensure compliance with environmental laws, standards, regulations, or other requirements.
  • Identify and apply for project funding.

Knowledge

Arts and Humanities
  • English language
Business
  • customer service
  • management
Safety and Government
  • law and government
Math and Science
  • arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics

Skills

Basic Skills
  • keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements
  • reading work related information
Problem Solving
  • 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
  • measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it

Abilities

Verbal
  • communicate by speaking
  • communicate by writing
Ideas and Logic
  • notice when problems happen
  • make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
Math
  • choose the right type of math to solve a problem
  • add, subtract, multiply, or divide

Personality

People interested in this work like activities that include leading, making decisions, and business.
They do well at jobs that need:
  • Integrity
  • Attention to Detail
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Dependability
  • Cooperation
  • Persistence

Technology

You might use software like this on the job:

Geographic information system
  • ESRI ArcGIS software Hot Technology
  • ESRI ArcView
Presentation software
  • Microsoft PowerPoint Hot Technology
Enterprise resource planning ERP software
  • Oracle Hyperion
  • SAP software Hot Technology

Education

Education: (rated 4 of 5)
bachelor's degree
usually needed

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Job Outlook

Bright Outlook
New job opportunities are very likely in the future.
Salary
$124,650
$60,390
$208,000+
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