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Sustainability Specialists

Also called: Sustainability Consultant, Sustainability Coordinator, Sustainability Specialist, Sustainable Design Coordinator

What they do:

Address organizational sustainability issues, such as waste stream management, green building practices, and green procurement plans.

On the job, you would:
  • Develop sustainability project goals, objectives, initiatives, or strategies in collaboration with other sustainability professionals.
  • Monitor or track sustainability indicators, such as energy usage, natural resource usage, waste generation, and recycling.
  • Assess or propose sustainability initiatives, considering factors such as cost effectiveness, technical feasibility, and acceptance.
On the job, you'll need:

Business

  • management
  • customer service

Safety and Government

  • law and government

Arts and Humanities

  • English language

Education and Training

  • teaching and course design

Basic Skills

  • reading work related information
  • talking to others

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 writing
  • read and understand what is written

Ideas and Logic

  • make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
  • use rules to solve problems

Investigative

People interested in this work like activities that include ideas, thinking, and figuring things out.

  • Initiative
  • Cooperation
  • Persistence
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Integrity
  • Leadership

Computer aided design CAD software

  • Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D
  • Autodesk Revit

Presentation software

  • Microsoft PowerPoint

Analytical or scientific software

  • PE INTERNATIONAL SoFi
  • PRe Consultants SimaPro

Job Outlook

The job outlook for this position is Bright.

New job opportunities are very likely in the future. This career will have large numbers of openings.

Median Annual Salary: $75,990

Education

Bachelor's degree or master's degree is usually needed.