ES: Environmental Conservation and Reclamation Jobs and Careers

As an environmental professional you'll have a lot of career choices. You will often work in a team as a field technologist involved in activities ranging through:

• soil and plant sampling
• supervising or actively reclaiming and re-vegetating sites
• conducting site inspections and site assessments
• sampling of drilling fluid from rigs
• writing reports

You'll find jobs with environmental agencies and consultants in the oil and gas sector, mining, agriculture, and forestry sectors, as well as government. Flexibility in this career allows you to work for yourself or for small and large companies, government and agencies.

Careers include:

• environmental consultant
• reclamation field supervisor
• environmental technician
• drilling waste consultant
• soil technician

Other opportunities

Graduates of this program qualify for membership in the Alberta Institute of Agrologists and are eligible to article as a Registered Technologists in Agrology [RT(Ag)].

ECO Canada Certification
This program provides preparation for you to become an Environmental Professional (EP) with ECO Canada.

As a diploma graduate you are eligible to apply to be an Environmental Professional in Training (Ept) and can upgrade to an EP after you have completed 5 years of relevant experience.