Environmental health and safety jobs: Easy come, easy go?

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Air quality and environmental health and safety jobs

appear and reappear rather mysteriously, it seems. When the demand for research & development services is high, the right people can be impossible to find.

Where to look for employment? An individual looking at environmental health and safety jobs or in my case a job in meteorology will usually try government agencies or environmental engineering firms and consultancy job recruitment drives.

You might want to find environmental regulatory and compliance, waste management jobs and environmental health and safety jobs. Or even weather jobs.

Looking for work in the United States?

See the lists of jobs over on the right side of the page.

Maybe you are also interested in meteorology and need to know where to start. Check with Environment Canada if you like working in a regulatory environment. It could be just the thing for you.

The list of things environmental professionals do includes

apply for and obtain regulatory permitting,
conduct reporting,
ensure compliance,
complete emission inventories,
use dispersion data modelling software,
determine environmental human impact assessments and
on-site training

for client personnel.

An informal rule around here is, "we're not hiring, but we're always hiring" kind of thing. That is if your skill set and presentation are deemed as extremely appropriate for one of our environmental health and safety jobs you will be deemed valuable nonetheless.

A physics, chemistry, or meteorology degree or one of many available environmental engineering degrees is required, with special consideration given for graduate work, established networks and related air quality modeling experience. Get a degree now!

Pay particular attention to your marketing and organizational skills: they are strong assets which will get you far in any environmental consulting jobs.

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Even the tough ones.

Your first job could be your most important one
Might as well make it a good one.

If you are interested in working in Calgary in on of our air quality and environmental health and safety jobs, and especially if you have connections to clients and need the technical and administrative support or scientific guidance,
call us.

What if you have some experience and a client base already? What if you need to partner with a group that will provide support to develop and grow these relationships and complete the work? Please give Ann Jamieson a call at (403)560-7698. This firm is called Calvin Consulting and can be contacted by email at calvinconsulting @ shaw.ca (remove spaces).

If you are serious about finding environmental health and safety jobs or employment in any other field, visit this recruiter search site.

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Environmental health and safety jobs usually require you to complete your degree. If that is not really your thing, but you're smart and on the ball, maybe you should investigate something like air traffic control.