Your day-to-day tasks may include:

• exploring the suitability of sites for developments like power stations or wind farms
• working out environment risks from industries like energy or chemical production
• going out to sites to collect contamination data and then analysing it
• writing scientific reports and presenting findings
• reporting organisations that don't meet environmental laws and regulations
• responding to environmental accidents and managing clean-up operations
• providing advice to industry or government

You could work in an office or at a client's business.

Your working environment may be you'll travel often and outdoors some of the time.

With experience, you could move into an associate role, or senior or principal consultant position. You may also be able to apply for chartered environmentalist status. You can find out more about being a chartered environmentalist from the Society for the Environment.

Other options include lecturing or running your own consultancy business.