Brownfield Redevelopment Specialists and Site Managers
Agriculture, Food and Natural ResourcesO*NET 11-9199.11United States
Plan and direct cleanup and redevelopment of contaminated properties for reuse. Does not include properties sufficiently contaminated to qualify as Superfund sites.
- Median annual earnings
- $106,813
- Projected change
- +8.9%
- Typical education
- Bachelor's degree
- Employment
- 1.14M jobs
50th percentile, United States
2025 to 2035
86.4% of the workforce
Growing to 1.24M by 2035
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The work
What brownfield redevelopment specialists and site managers do
Tasks reported for this occupation, ordered by how often they come up in the role.
- 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.
- Conduct quantitative risk assessments for human health, environmental, or other risks.
- Design or implement plans for surface or ground water remediation.
- Design or implement measures to improve the water, air, and soil quality of military test sites, abandoned mine land, or other contaminated sites.
- Review or evaluate environmental remediation project proposals.
- Prepare reports or presentations to communicate brownfield redevelopment needs, status, or progress.
- Inspect sites to assess environmental damage or monitor cleanup progress.
- Maintain records of decisions, actions, and progress related to environmental redevelopment projects.
- Coordinate the disposal of hazardous waste.
- Develop or implement plans for the sustainable regeneration of brownfield sites to ensure regeneration of a wider area by providing environmental protection or economic and social benefits.
- Prepare and submit permit applications for demolition, cleanup, remediation, or construction projects.
- Conduct feasibility or cost-benefit studies for environmental remediation projects.
- Negotiate contracts for services or materials needed for environmental remediation.
- Design or implement plans for structural demolition and debris removal.
- Design or conduct environmental restoration studies.
- Review or evaluate designs for contaminant treatment or disposal facilities.
Pay and outlook
What the job pays and where it is heading
Annual earnings range
Reported earnings by percentile, United States
- 10th percentile
- $49,585
- 25th percentile
- $73,342
- 50th percentile
- $106,813
- 75th percentile
- $152,210
- 90th percentile
- $237,454
The gold marker shows the median. Half earn more than $106,813 and half earn less.
Employment outlook
2025 to 2035 projection
+8.9%faster than average
20251,136,396 jobs
2035 projected1,237,142 jobs
100,746 more positions over the decade, before replacement hiring.
Preparation
Education levels
What people currently working in the career hold. These are not entry requirements.
- Bachelor's degree
- 86.4%
- Master's or Professional degree
- 13.6%
Skills
Skills employers ask for
Technical skills appearing most often in job postings for this occupation.
How the work gets done
Core competencies
Broad capabilities associated with strong performance in this occupation.
- Complex Problem Solving
- Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Reading Comprehension
- Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
- Critical Thinking
- Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
- Coordination
- Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Speaking
- Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Monitoring
- Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Writing
- Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Active Listening
- Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Mathematics
- Using mathematics to solve problems.
- Systems Evaluation
- Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
- Negotiation
- Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
- Systems Analysis
- Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
- Time Management
- Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Active Learning
- Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Social Perceptiveness
- Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Management of Financial Resources
- Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
- Persuasion
- Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
- Science
- Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.
- Instructing
- Teaching others how to do something.
In the market
Job titles and employers
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- 09Vulnerability Management Engineers39 postings
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- 11Mitigation Managers36 postings
- 12Crew Chiefs34 postings
- 13Water Mitigation Technicians24 postings
- 14Project Technicians21 postings
- 15Water Technicians21 postings
- 16Project Supervisors17 postings
- 17Remediation Specialists17 postings
- 18Remediation Project Managers16 postings
- 19Litigation Supervisors15 postings
- 20Loss Mitigation Supervisors15 postings
Top employers
- 01CDM Smith122 postings
- 02Paul Davis Restoration73 postings
- 03Cayuse Holdings51 postings
- 04Geosyntec Consultants40 postings
- 05ServiceMaster39 postings
- 06Highground26 postings
- 07New England Trauma Services22 postings
- 08Paul Davis16 postings
- 09The Matlen Silver Group16 postings
- 10WSP Global16 postings
- 11Actalent13 postings
- 12Bms Cat13 postings
- 13GPAC13 postings
- 14Langan Engineering & Environmental Services13 postings
- 15Amazon12 postings
- 16Northrop Grumman11 postings
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- 18Erm Company S.R.O.10 postings
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