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Brownfield Redevelopment Specialists and Site Managers

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

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.
On the job, you'll need:

Arts and Humanities

  • English language

Business

  • customer service
  • management

Safety and Government

  • law and government

Math and Science

  • arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics

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

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

Conventional

People interested in this work like activities that include data, detail, and regular routines.

  • Integrity
  • Attention to Detail
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Dependability
  • Cooperation
  • Persistence

Geographic information system

  • ESRI ArcGIS software
  • ESRI ArcView

Presentation software

  • Microsoft PowerPoint

Enterprise resource planning ERP software

  • Oracle Hyperion
  • SAP software

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Job Outlook

The job outlook for this position is Average.

New job opportunities are likely in the future.

Median Annual Salary: $128,620

Education

Bachelor's degree is usually needed.