Any Environmental Engineers/Related Fields Here?

[crockpot2001]

There is actually a lot of environmental work in Asia, one of my professors does some consulting work on the side and a lot of it is for jobs in Asia.

lowsound

Yup. The only reason there are not way more Westerners living here is not because of the lack of jobs, it's because they are oftn too chicken-sht to step outside the comfort zone.

 

[rr5025]

Speaking of Stantec and Pittsburgh... I work for Burt Hill (Architecture/Engineering) here in the Pittsburgh area and we were just purchased by Stantec. Literally the merger was voted through this morning. So Stantec is now going to have offices in downtown Pittsburgh as well as Butler, State College, Clevelend, Philly, DC, Boston, etc. Something you might wanna look into. Good luck !

Just took a look on their site and doesn't seem to be any opportunities maybe they just haven't been thrown up.

I also took a look at Hull and they do have an opening in Pitt. Unfortunately it is for someone with a lot more experience and certifications than I hold.

Thanks for the help guys!

 

[Loki182]

Do you have any GIS background? I have a geography degree and I'm a GIS manager for a wind energy company here in Pittsburgh, but GIS is pretty much everywhere.

 

[McHaven]

Do you have any GIS background? I have a geography degree and I'm a GIS manager for a wind energy company here in Pittsburgh, but GIS is pretty much everywhere.

I've got about 20 hours in ArcGIS from a cartography course, but I imagine the work we did was not relevant to typical GIS work. This university has also left me with a disdain for ArcGIS, due to some of the professors.

Also, awesome to see someone else with a geography degree. My department at my university only has about ten majors and most don't complete it, so I don't know too many people with one.

 

[Loki182]

I didn't like GIS at all in college, i had about 45 hours of GIS work. I loathed it, but I took a job as an entry level GIS Technician in Columbus, Ohio 4 years ago and now I am a GIS manager. I love the analysis side of the work, writing spatial models and managing geodatabases, the cartography is relatively easy, and I'm trying to get into the development/administrator side of GIS now to serve out published maps on ArcServer's internet mapping services. I hated it before and now I love it. I remember telling my counselor not to even recommend me any GIS job opportunities.

 

[Loki182]

I started off in Meteorology at Ohio State, which is in the geography department before moving to general geography. My actual specialty was examining human/environmental relationships and their effects on each other but I had quite a bit of GIS course work and labs.