Apply theory and principles of environmental engineering to modify, test, and operate equipment and devices used in the prevention, control, and remediation of environmental pollution, including waste treatment and site remediation. May assist in the development of environmental pollution remediation devices under direction of engineer.

Other names for Environmental Engineering Technicians: Air Analysis Technician, Air Analyst, Engineer Technician, Environmental Engineer, Environmental Engineering Aide, Environmental Engineering Assistant, Environmental Engineering Technician, Environmental Field Technician, Environmental Scientist, Environmental Specialist, Environmental Technician, Industrial Waste Inspector, Pollution Control Technician, Soil Technician,

• Perform statistical analysis and correction of air or water pollution data submitted by industry and other agencies.
• Develop work plans, including writing specifications and establishing material, manpower and facilities needs.
• Receive, set up, test, and decontaminate equipment.
• Maintain project logbook records and computer program files.
• Conduct pollution surveys, collecting and analyzing samples such as air and ground water.
• Perform environmental quality work in field and office settings.
• Review technical documents to ensure completeness and conformance to requirements.
• Perform laboratory work such as logging numerical and visual observations, preparing and packaging samples, recording test results, and performing photo documentation.
• Review work plans to schedule activities.
• Obtain product information, identify vendors and suppliers, and order materials and equipment to maintain inventory.
• Arrange for the disposal of lead, asbestos and other hazardous materials.
• Inspect facilities to monitor compliance with regulations governing substances such as asbestos, lead, and wastewater.
• Provide technical engineering support in the planning of projects, such as wastewater treatment plants, to ensure compliance with environmental regulations and policies.
• Improve chemical processes to reduce toxic emissions.
• Oversee support staff.
• Assist in the cleanup of hazardous material spills.
• Produce environmental assessment reports, tabulating data and preparing charts, graphs and sketches.
• Maintain process parameters and evaluate process anomalies.
• Work with customers to assess the environmental impact of proposed construction and to develop pollution prevention programs.

• Microplate readers
• Heated walk in environmental or growth chambers
• Fluorescent microscopes
• Laboratory flasks
• Orbital shaking water baths
• Reactors or fermenters or digesters
• Dewatering equipment
• Laboratory funnels
• Flame ionization analyzers
• Scanners
• Flow injection analysis equipment
• Flowmeters
• Spectrofluorimeters or fluorimeters
• Electrophoresis system accessories
• Freeze dryers or lyopholizers
• Ultra cold or ultralow upright cabinets or freezers
• French pressure cells
• Laboratory funnels
• Laboratory safety furnaces
• Gas chromatographs
• Mass spectrometers
• Gel documentation systems
• Laboratory adapters or connectors or fittings
• Laboratory heat exchange condensers
• Global positioning system receivers
• Laboratory graduated cylinders
• Water samplers
• Water samplers
• Heating mantles or tapes
• High pressure liquid chromatograph chromatography
• Reactors or fermenters or digesters
• Benchtop centrifuges
• Stirring hotplates
• Shaking incubators
• Forced air or mechanical convection general purpose incubators
• Bench refractometers or polarimeters
• Inverted microscopes
• Ion chromatographs
• Ion selective electrode ISE meters
• Laboratory mechanical convection ovens
• Laboratory balances
• Orbital shakers
• Laminar flow cabinets or stations
• Laser printers
• Robotic or automated liquid handling systems
• Mass spectrometers
• Liquid scintillation counters
• Chromatographic detectors
• Reverse osmosis equipment
• Mainframe computers
• Laboratory mechanical convection ovens
• Chemistry analyzers
• Water meters
• Microcentrifuges
• Dropping pipettes
• Microscope slides
• Binocular light compound microscopes
• Chemiluminescence or bioluminescence analyzers
• Laboratory mixers
• Laboratory box furnaces
• Air samplers or collectors
• Notebook computers
• Binocular light compound microscopes
• Ozone generator
• Ozone analyzers
• Ozone generator
• Laboratory balances
• Electronic counters
• Optical diffraction apparatus
• Filtering machinery
• Peristaltic pumps
• Personal computers
• pH meters
• Darkfield microscopes
• Photometers
• Inductively coupled plasma ICP spectrometers
• PCR enclosures
• Potentiometers
• Hazardous material protective apparel
• Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectrometers
• Reciprocating pumps
• Refrigerated benchtop centrifuges
• Respirators
• Dissolved carbon dioxide analyzers
• Vacuum or rotary evaporators
• Scanning light or spinning disk or laser scanning microscopes
• Scanning probe microscopes
• Liquid scintillation counters
• Light scattering equipment
• Spectrometers
• Nitrogen or nitrate or nitrite analyzer
• Soil testing kits
• Particle size measuring apparatus
• Permeability testing apparatus
• Soil core sampling apparatus
• Soil testing kits
• Ion selective electrode
• Spectrofluorimeters or fluorimeters
• Spectrophotometers
• Sterilization cabinets
• Magnetic stirrers
• Water analyzers
• Extracting equipment for laboratories
• Chemical absorption gas analyzers
• Multipurpose or general test tubes
• Thermal conductivity analyzers
• Thermocouples
• Titration equipment
• Water analyzers
• Fluorescent microscopes
• Organic carbon analyzers
• Hydrocarbons analyzers or detectors
• Water analyzers
• Leak testing equipment
• Land drilling rigs
• Transmission electron microscopes
• Turbidimeters
• Vortex mixers
• Ultrafiltration equipment
• Ultrasonic cleaning equipment
• Spectrofluorimeters or fluorimeters
• Density gradient fractionators
• Laboratory vacuum pumps
• Videoscopes
• Spectrometers
• Water baths
• Bi distillation units
• Open stream water level recorders
• Water analyzers
• Water samplers
• Water samplers
• Ultra pure water systems
• Electrophoresis system accessories
• Reactors or fermenters or digesters
• Analytical balances
• Anemometers
• Lasers
• Atomic absorption AA spectrometers
• Scanning probe microscopes
• Steam autoclaves or sterilizers
• Titration equipment
• Laboratory bailers
• Laboratory balances
• Laboratory beakers
• Nephelometers
• Refrigerated benchtop centrifuges
• Sample oxidizer
• HEPA filtered enclosures
• Laboratory blenders or emulsifiers
• Penetrometers
• Calorimeters
• Photo attachments for microscopes
• Organic carbon analyzers
• Laboratory centrifugal pumps
• Fume hoods or cupboards
• Conductivity meters
• Portable data input terminals
• Desktop computers
• Heating or drying equipment or accessories
• Air samplers or collectors
• Particle size measuring apparatus
• Reactors or fermenters or digesters
• Digital cameras
• Dissolved oxygen meters
• Surface tension measuring instruments
• Surface tension measuring instruments
• Instrumentation for capillary electrophoresis
• Electrophoresis system accessories
• Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectrometers
• Air pumps
• Reactors or fermenters or digesters
• Air samplers or collectors
• Air velocity and temperature monitors
• Air samplers or collectors
• Isolation glove boxes

Office suite software

Graphics or photo imaging software

Word processing software

Presentation software

Spreadsheet software

Desktop publishing software

Document management software

Categorization or classification software

Data base user interface and query software

Development environment software

Object or component oriented development software

Computer aided design CAD software

Analytical or scientific software

Compliance software

Industrial control software

Internet browser software

Electronic mail software

Map creation software