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Environmental Researcher

Natural Resources

  • Average Salary

    RM2732 - RM 5215

  • Career Trends

  • Compability

What is Environmental Researcher?

An environmental researcher is someone who is tasked with researching, designing, planning, or carrying out technical obligations to prevent, control, and repair environmental damage using a variety of engineering sciences. The work of environmental researcher also includes waste handling, site remediation, or pollution control technology.

Minimum education level

 

PT3

SPM

STPM

Diploma

Degree

Average Salary

RM2732 - RM 5215

Example of a Job Position

Environmental Analyst
Environment Expert
Environmental Returning Specialist
Main Head of Air and Climate Change
Manager of Environment
Sanitation Expert

Task

? Design or supervise the design of systems, processes, or equipment to control, regulate, or remediate water, air or soil quality ? Advise companies or government agencies to follow procedures to clean contaminated sites to protect the community and the environment ? Collaborate with environmental scientists, environmental planners, hazardous waste technicians, engineers, legal or business experts, or other experts to solve environmental problems ? Obtain, update or maintain a plan, permit, or standard operating procedure ? Become a liaison with the state or government officials regarding issues related to requirements for solid or hazardous waste programs

Knowledge

Mathematics

Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.

English

Knowledge of the structure and content of English, including the meaning and spelling of each word, composition rules, and grammar.

Engineering and Technology

Knowledge of practical applications in engineering and technology. This includes the application of principles, techniques, procedures and equipment for designing and producing various goods and services.

Law and Governance

Knowledge of laws, legal rules, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, institutional rules, and democratic political processes.

Chemistry

Knowledge of the composition, structure and chemical properties of substances and chemical processes and transformations that occur. Includes the use of chemicals and their interactions, alarms, production techniques and disposal methods

Skills

Complex Problem Solving

Identify complex problems and review related information in order to develop and evaluate options and solutions that can be applied.

Critical Thinking

Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to the problems handled

Reading Understanding

Understand sentences and paragraphs written in work documents.

Coordination

Adjust the actions taken, with the actions of others.

Persuasion

Persuade others to change their thoughts and behavior.

Capability

  • 1

    Information Arrangement - The ability to arrange various things and actions in a certain sequence or pattern according to the rules specified (for example: number patterns, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).

  • 2

    Oral Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas when speaking, so that others can understand what is being conveyed

  • 3

    Speaking Clarity - The ability to speak clearly so that others can understand what is being said

  • 4

    Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is wrong or maybe wrong. This does not involve solving the problem, only knowing if there is a problem.

  • 5

    Written Understanding - Ability to read and understand information and ideas conveyed through writing

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