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Environmental Engineer
Environmental Engineer
36 months
Portugal
Portuguese

Qualification details

ISCO Number
2143.1.4
Stage
I-VET
EQF
6
Specific Occupational Qualifications

Waste Manager/ Responsible; Environmental manager; Environment manager; Environmental & CO2 manager; Waste manager / responsible; Wastes valorization responsible by-product / waste manager;
waste management technical support

ISCO Label
Environmental Engineer; Air protection environmental engineer; Environmental engineering expert; Environment engineer; Industrial environmental engineer; Water pollution engineer; Environmental engineering adviser; Chemical environmental engineer; Environmental engineering specialist; Environmental engineering consultant; Sanitary engineer; Pollution engineer; Environmental analyst; Environmental specialist for water management; Agricultural conservation engineer.

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Last Update: June 7, 2024, noon

Learning Outcomes

  • Collaborates cross functionally with the big picture in mind to enhance strategic decision making and project implementation.
    5
  • Encourages and facilitates the sharing of data cross functionally to optimise decision making.
    5

  • Develop resource and information collection approaches and processes for identified improvement areas.
    6
  • Deploy visualisation techniques to communicate proposed new ideas, improvements or solutions.
    5

  • Able to evaluate complex arguments and make reasoned judgments based on a comprehensive understanding of the topic.
    6
  • Understands the importance of considering multiple factors, perspectives, and potential consequences in a systematic manner.
    5
  • Strives to be self-critical and open to constructive feedback to continually improve own critical thinking skills.
    5
  • Argument in the context of critical thinking
    6

  • Can produce a procedure to monitor and evaluate the departmental or project energy usage and performance.
    5
  • Analyse data set using basic statistical techniques to identify trends and patterns.
    5
  • Operations of statistical techniques, e.g. Mean, Median, Regression Analysis, probability theory, probability distribution, hypothesis testing.
    5
  • Types of statistical software.
    6
  • Test conditions required for each statistical technique.
    3
  • Interpretation of the results from statistical modelling.
    5

  • Conduct field data gathering and data analysis.
    4

  • Review compliance to regulations, codes of practice and guidelines.
    5
  • Energy regulations, standards, codes of practice and guidelines.
    5
  • How to collate and document information on energy performance and efficiency.
    5
  • The principles and processes of effective communication and how to apply them
    5

  • Monitors working practices and evaluates energy usage and efficiency in own area of responsibility.
    6
  • Makes efficient use of resources in own area of responsibility.
    6
  • Able to identify the cause of relatively routine energy consumption problems or phenomena and implement standard, well defined procedures to solve problems.
    6
  • Can analyse energy data, monitoring energy usage, and conduct energy audits to identify inefficiencies and prioritise energy-saving opportunities.
    6
  • Recognises and recommends the adoption of energy-efficient technologies.
    6
  • Implements energy saving practices in own area of control.
    6
  • Encourages individuals and teams to identify opportunities which improve energy efficiency and contribute to a sustainable environment.
    6
  • Practical energy saviing opportunities and practices.
    6
  • Organisational targets and standards for reducing energy usage.
    6
  • Measures used within the organisation to achieve energy efficiency and reduce energy usage.
    6
  • How effective management and organisation of work can help minimise energy usage.
    6
  • How others can impact on energy usage.
    5
  • Embraces renewable energy sources is an important aspect of energy resource management.
    6
  • Demonstrates knowledge and adherence to relevant energy codes, energy efficiency regulations, emissions standards, and sustainability frameworks showcases a commitment to responsible energy resource management.
    6
  • Encourages others to overcome barriers and improve working practices and energy efficiency in their area of responsibility.
    6
  • Renewable energy technologies, such as solar panels, wind turbines, or geothermal systems, to generate clean energy on-site or procure renewable energy from external sources.
    4
  • How to carry out a cost-benefit analysis.
    5
  • Benefits of energy efficiency to the organisation.
    5
  • How staff training and development can help minimise energy usage.
    5
  • Barriers that can limit the impact of energy reduction initiatives and how these can be overcome.
    4

  • Analyses business risks before acting, prepared to take measured risks when appropriate.
    6

  • Ensures that all operations are managed in an environmentally sensitive way to minimise any negative impact on the environment and local communities.
    5
  • Promotes a positive environmental culture within their are of responsibility.
    6

  • Able to explain key legislation.
    5
  • Able to conduct environmental impact assessments for certain activities.
    6
  • Evaluates major policy and legislation in own field, describe their implications for organisations, products and services.
    5
  • Ensures the EMS provides a structured framework to manage environmental impacts, comply with legislation, and continuously improve environmental performance.
    6
  • Compliance Requirements: Understand the specific compliance requirements imposed by environmental legislation. This includes knowing the permits, licenses, reporting obligations, and monitoring requirements that your organisation must adhere to. Ensure that you are aware of any deadlines or timelines associated with these requirements.
    4
  • Environmental Impact Assessments: The need for environmental impact assessments for certain activities, such as construction projects or expansion plans. Understand the process and requirements for conducting these assessments, and ensure that they are completed and submitted as required by the legislation.
    5
  • Reporting and Documentation: Understand the reporting obligations related to environmental impacts, emissions, waste management, or other relevant factors. Familiarize yourself with the required documentation and ensure that accurate records are maintained to demonstrate compliance.
    5

  • Brings experts in different subject areas together to discuss a common issue and develop viable solutions.
    6

  • Establishes enterprise systems that identify, characterise, value and exploit waste.
    6

  • Analyses production processes for opprtunities to reduce waste or valorize as by-products.
    6
  • Conduct field data gathering and data analysis.
    5
  • Produce technical reports and recommend optimisation improvement.
    5
  • Review statistical analyses on equipment and plant performance.
    6
  • Evaluate the adjustment of process control parameters to ensure their effectiveness.
    6

  • Able to access and analyse inventory data.
    5
  • Understanding the different methods for assessing environmental impacts and how to select and apply them appropriately.
    3

  • Establish energy and utilty usage patterns.
    4
  • Review production operation modes by using statistical analysis methods.
    4
  • Determine shortfalls in the organisation’s energy usage, water and other utilty usage and appropriate corrective actions.
    4

  • Takes full responsibility for the definition, documentation and successful completion of complex projects.
    6
  • Adopts and adapts project management methods and tools.
    6
  • Ensures that effective project monitoring and control processes, change control, risk management and quality processes are employed and maintained.
    5
  • Monitors and controls resources, revenue and capital expenditures against the project budget.
    4
  • Project assessment, evaluation and prioritisation.
    6

  • Manages and supports the organisation, teams and individuals to embrace, align, and act in accordance with sustainability principles and industry best practices to strengthen sustainability culture.
    5
  • The importance of sustainability and how it can impact their organisation's bottom line, brand reputation, and social license to operate.
    5
  • The importance of sustainable supply chain management and how it can help reduce environmental and social impacts throughout the entire value chain.
    5

  • Understand the interrelationship of various processes affecting work activities, assess processes and systems holistically and examine aggregates rather than individual activities.
    3
  • Understand how various processes are related.
    3

  • Establishes connections, patterns and synergies between information gathered from diverse sources of information.
    5
  • Explores opportunities to leverage new sources of information or collaborations in new ways.
    5
  • Analyses other areas in the organisation to identify potential collaboration opportunities.
    6

  • Can explain the basic principles of conventional water and wastewater treatment processes.
    4
  • Can examine the nature of impurities in waters and wastewaters and select appropriate processes for their removal (design of flow sheets).
    6
  • Able to explain and compare the structure and operation of the water sector, including legislations.
    5
  • Applies economic costing to water and wastewater treatment systems.
    6
  • Applies relevant fundamental scientific and engineering principles (i.e. water chemistry, hydraulics and pumping, mass balance, mass and heat transfers, reactor theory, chemical and biochemical kinetics) to water and wastewater treatment processes.
    5
  • Identify the range of conventional and advanced chemical, physical and biological treatment processes for the treatment of water and wastewater.
    6
  • Determine the factors influencing the selection, design and operation of conventional and innovative physical, chemical and biological processes.
    5
  • Select appropriate treatment processes for specific applications.
    5
  • Explain the underlying operating principles on which the treatment processes are based and be able to apply these principles to unit process design and operation.
    5
  • Evaluate the importance of monitoring of chemical, physical and biological treatment processes for optimisation and diagnostics of in drinking water and wastewater treatment.
    4
  • Classification, significance and concentration ranges of impurities in water and wastewater, including: suspended and dissolved solids, organic and inorganic compounds, trace contaminants and pathogens.
    6
  • Process control systems and strategies.
    6
  • Water sector structure and legislation.
    4
  • Mass and heat transfers.
    6
  • Principles of channel flows, weirs and flumes.
    5
  • Hydraulic profiling.
    5
  • Flow distribution, divisions and combination.
    5
  • Flow through hydraulic structures and unit process.
    5

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