Also called: Air Permitting Engineer, Emissions Engineer
Measures and controls air pollution from factories, power plants and vehicles.
You run a computer model showing where smoke from a new factory stack will drift and whether neighbors will breathe too much pollution. Then you climb a stack platform with a testing crew measuring what actually comes out.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in environmental, chemical or mechanical engineering.
Ways in: 4-year college. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Environmental Engineering, Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering.
Growing about average (about 4% over 10 years).
Medium risk for 10 years. AI models emissions and fills in permit paperwork faster; stack testing, control design and plant visits stay human.
Classes: Chemistry, Environmental science, Physics, Statistics.
Official data: O*NET occupation 17-2081.
Career Universe is an early version. Pay, training and AI-risk figures are estimates to start your own research, not verified facts. The research was written with AI research assistants, checked by validation scripts and spot-checked by hand. Check anything important with schools, employers and official sources. How the numbers work.