Environmental Engineering

Environmental engineering will help keep your business in the black, and the green
By Laurie Glasson Environmental engineering is one of the fastest growing professions in the nation, with good reason. Environmental regulations are increasing exponentially and those regulations affect your business. And, if your company is taking on an environmentally impactful project, hiring an environmental engineer is a necessity.

Aside from helping the environment, a viable environmental design plan can also save you money, elevate your public profile and prevent your business from violating environmental regulations. To get your company's environmental engineering business up to speed with current environmental engineering practices, you will need to:

1. Find an accredited and capable environmental engineering service to handle your job.

2. Put an environmental engineering recruiting firm to work for you to find the environmental engineer you need.

3. Establish an in-house environmental engineering department.

Hire an environmental engineering business

Environmental engineering businesses will help you make critical environmental decisions to ensure that your project is in compliance with all environmental regulations. An engineer will also help your company shape its impact on the environment. Well-known sites, like Hire Engineers will help you search for capable and accredited environmental engineers to deal with issues like air pollution control, hazardous waste management and industrial hygiene engineering.
Try:  Hire Engineers allows you to post a help wanted ad along with a description of your company's needs and the qualifications that you are looking for in an engineering service. The American Academy of Environmental Engineers (AAEE) has a career center that allows you to look for your ideal candidate and provides expert advice to help you navigate environmental issues.

Use specialized recruiters to do your search for environmental engineering services

MRI Frederick is a company known for its high quality placement and recruitment. Along with management recruitment, they also provide temporary and permanent placement programs like Office Mates 5 and Daystar. Oya's provides a directory of recruiters that focus specifically on environmental enginnering.
Try:  MRI Frederick's website gives you contact information for recuriters with experience in environmental and geo-technical engineering. Oya's has compiled contact information for environmental engineering recruiters from all over the country

Start an in-house environmental engineering department

If you have the need to establish an in-house environmental engineering department, or make your temporary environmental engineering hire a permanent staff member, you'll want to ensure that they have the ability to direct and manage their own projects. Johns Hopkins University can help with long distance, online courses. And Zweig White's project management software will help make strategic project planning easy. Their programs will help your department establish its goals, strategies and actions plans to keep clients and retain employees.
Try:  Johns Hopkins University offers an online MS degree for Environmental Planning and Management. Zweig White has a CD and DVD program for sale that will help you with the strategic planning of your environmental engineering projects and provide your engineering staff with important environmental engineering info that will help things run smoothly.

• Look to environmental engineering consultants to help you with every aspect of transforming your projects and business. They can not only help you go green on projects, but also advise you on revamping your office operations.