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The Complete Guide to Becoming An Environmental Engineering Technologist and Technician
What you'll really do, earn, and need to break in as an environmental engineering technologist or technician - with honest pay numbers, day-in-the-life detail, and a clear yes-or-no fit assessment.
by Alumigogo Books
Chapter 1: What Does a Environmental Engineering Technologist and Technician Actually Do?
Let's get one thing out of the way immediately: the title is long, but the job is specific. An environmental engineering technologist and technician is not an environmental engineer. The engineer designs the system, the treatment plant, or the remediation plan. The technologist and technician is the person who makes sure that system actually runs, collects the data that proves it's working, and finds out what's going wrong when it isn't. You are the bridge between the engineer's drawing and the real world with its weather, its unexpected contamination, and its finicky equipment.
If you start in this field, your days will be a mix of field work and office work, and the balance shifts depending on where you land. In a municipal setting, you might spend your morning driving to a wastewater treatment plant to pull samples from a clarifier. In the afternoon, you might sit at a computer logging that data, checking it against regulatory limits, and preparing a report that will be submitted to a state environmental agency by a deadline you cannot miss. In a consulting firm, you might be at a contaminated site, using a handheld device to measure volatile organic compounds in the soil, then packing up and heading back to the office to draft a summary for a project manager who passed it along to a client. The common thread is this: you are the person who produces and handles the