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Environmental Impact and Restoration Analyst

OFO Code: 214302

Last checked 7 October 2026

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1. Occupation identity

OFO code
214302
Occupation
Environmental Impact and Restoration Analyst
Classification
OFO 2021
Major group
PROFESSIONALS
Unit group
2143 · Environmental Engineers

Official description
Environmental engineers conduct research, advise on, design and direct implementation of solutions to prevent control or remedy negative impacts of human activity on the environment utilizing a variety of engineering disciplines. They conduct environmental assessments of construction and civil engineering projects and apply engineering principles to pollution control, recycling and waste disposal.

More official OFO detail

Specialisations: Environmental Restoration Planner, Industrial Ecologist, Environmental Remediation Specialist

  • Advising corporations and government agencies of procedures to follow in cleaning up contaminated sites to protect people and the environment
  • Monitoring progress of environmental improvement programs
  • Providing engineering and technical support for environmental remediation and litigation projects, including remediation system design and determination of regulatory applicability
  • Conducting research, assessing and reporting on the environmental impact of existing and proposed construction, civil engineering and other activities
  • Obtaining, updating, and maintaining plans, permits, and standard operating procedures
  • Collaborating with environmental scientists, planners, hazardous waste technicians, engineers from other disciplines, and specialists in law and business to address environmental problems
  • Designing and overseeing the development of systems, processes and equipment for control, management, or remediation of water, air, or soil quality
  • Inspecting industrial and municipal facilities and programs to evaluate operational effectiveness and ensure compliance with environmental regulations
  • Providing environmental engineering assistance in network analysis, regulatory analysis, and planning or reviewing database development

2. Demand status

Demand evidence unavailable

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3. Salary evidence

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5. Qualification

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7. Industry, sector and provincial context

National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.

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10. Sources for this page

  • DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
    Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact.
  • DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
    The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment.
  • Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
    Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone.
  • QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
    Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review.
  • Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
    Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim.
  • SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
    PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.
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