Environmental expert

Also searched as: Experto en medio ambiente · Asesor ambiental

Code 2143.2

What does a Environmental expert do?

The environmental expert / advisor (asesor ambiental) advises on environmental compliance and management: permits, monitoring and authority relations. Use this Job Dictionary profile to advisory/compliance environmental role in companies.

How critical is this role

Critical specialistReference time to hire: 60120 days

Deep technical knowledge, hard to transfer.

Holds permits, environmental commitments and ESG reporting. The risk is regulatory rather than operational, and it surfaces late: by then it is a penalty.

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Essential skills

Knowledge

  • environmental threats
  • environmental legislation
  • pollution legislation
  • scientific research methodology
  • environmental policy
  • pollution prevention

Skills and competences

  • analyse environmental data
  • create solutions to problems
  • develop environmental policy
  • measure pollution
  • conduct environmental surveys
  • perform environmental investigations
  • collect samples for analysis

Transversal competences

  • advise on pollution prevention
  • advise on environmental remediation
  • develop environmental remediation strategies
  • assess environmental impact
  • provide training in sustainable tourism development and management
  • report on environmental issues
  • report pollution incidents
  • investigate pollution
  • carry out environmental audits

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What to assess for this role

Assess regulatory command, stakeholder management and environmental-risk prioritisation.

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What does an environmental expert do?
Interprets environmental requirements, builds compliance plans and supports audits or inspections.
Confused with HSE?
Sometimes the role is combined HSEQ; this sheet stresses the environmental leg.
What to measure when hiring?
Permit/monitoring cases and communication with regulators.

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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences