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Redevelopment Specialist

💰 Earn $129K-$217K
📚 Bachelor Degree
⏱️ 24–48 Month Training
📈 4.5% Job Growth
  • Transform contaminated sites into valuable community assets.
  • Drive environmental change by ensuring safe land reuse.
  • Blend science and strategy to revitalize urban landscapes.
Redevelopment Specialist
What Redevelopment Specialists DoPlan and direct cleanup and redevelopment of contaminated properties for reuse. Does not include properties sufficiently contaminated to qualify as Superfund sites.
  • Identify environmental contamination sources.
  • Coordinate on-site activities for environmental cleanup or remediation projects to ensure compliance with environmental laws, standards, regulations, or other requirements.
  • Identify and apply for project funding.
  • Plan or implement brownfield redevelopment projects to ensure safety, quality, and compliance with applicable standards or requirements.
  • Estimate costs for environmental cleanup and remediation of land redevelopment projects.
Redevelopment Specialists Education, Salary, and Growth
Minimum EducationBachelor Degree
Career ProspectsExcellent (Increasing by 5% or more)
Training Time2 to 4 years
Job Openings106,700 Annually
Median Earnings
$170,740 in California
$136,550 Nationally

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