How to Become a Professional Environmental Auditor?

Posted by Geo-Logix Pty Ltd on June 25th, 2018

If you have the dedication of protecting your environment from the contamination and you want to ensure safe and clean living environment for your country’s people, then you can consider becoming a certified environmental auditor. By becoming a green auditor, you can get certification to evaluate the residential, commercial, and industrial lands to check the effect of contamination and recommend effective procedures to make the land pollution free.  The field of the environmental auditor is very vast, and you can get many work opportunities in certified ecological protection agencies and companies and achieve your professional and personal objectives very well.
 
To become a competent and knowledgeable environmental aeuditor you can go through the following information:

Education and Training:

To become a certified auditor, the first condition for you is education. You should need to get a bachelor degree in environmental science, environmental engineering, environmental assessment, or natural resource management from an accredited college or university. You can also pursue masters’ degree in the same field to get more in-depth knowledge about environmental management and assessment otherwise you can get certification by receiving a bachelor degree. However, a degree of master level can help you to get a senior level post in a reputed environmental protection organization. After completing education, you can get training by working with a reputed ecological auditor to gain practical knowledge of the work. Practice will help you a lot when you go for a job interview as it will make a substantial impact on the employer and you will also become able to answer the question of employer confidently.
 
Job Description:

As a certified environmental auditor, you will be accountable for evaluating the environmental performance in the business and manufacturing industry. You have to follow the rules and regulations implemented by the government while assessing the environmental contamination and also need to follow safety instructions. As a certified auditor, it is also your responsibility to make effective plan to control the environmental pollution with the help of environmental remediation and restoration. Your primary role is to detect the environmental compliance and need to manage the control over contaminated sites, especially which are cited for establishing businesses and manufacturing plants. You have to perform compliance audit to ensure that companies are obeying internal and external guidelines for environmental protection and also do management performance audit to meet the appropriate criteria for management systems.
 
Essential Skills:

For becoming an expert environmental auditor, it is necessary for you to have skills to understand the environmental issues and need to become self-learner to stay informed about environmental contamination. You also need to understand your roles and duties well and need to follow guidelines to remove contamination from the environment to make it clean. It is also necessary for you to have skills for monitoring performance of the business over environmental pollution so that you can guide them effectively to execute the task flawlessly and successfully. You also have to get the ability to evaluate the information and need to work as per the data to control environmental contamination.