The newest job these days is the one which takes care of the Environment. Popularly known as “greener jobs” these are those work profiles in which the individual needs that take the environment as the centre of their activity. It may be the conservation services or the selecting an appropriate energy sources and their judicial use for a household, the “green job” equals the “clean” job.
A work can be qualified as green only if one does the work or business which conserves or supports the environment or those who produce an item which is friendly to the environment or is made by using minimal natural resources.
In United States, there are a lot of jobs which can be termed as a “green” job. Let us find out the profile and the sector looking for such people.
- Advice or Counsellor: A green job for an advisor or counsellor will be the same but here the individual has to advice what is environmental friendly, or does not exploits our natural resources. You can be an energy advisor for groups that deal with nature conservation or he one who can conduct assessment for residential energy sources and can advise for best sources for the volume of consumption they do every quarter or every year.
- Sales and Marketing: There are many companies which offer job for marketing, advertisement in environment friendly product along with those who are in operations or are producing or marketing renewable sources of Energy like solar energy and wind Energy.
- Manager/ Operation Head: While a lot of firms want a head who can closely check the operations of the project which is related to nature conservation. Companies asking for asset management and portfolio management are interested in those who know the environment well and can accomplish their projects related to building wind mill or generating energy from solar panels. Project managers needs to view, see, and analyse the operation and small or big projects.
- Engineering Posts: The scope for engineers is no less in the area of Green Jobs. You can construct, manufacture or transform present system that is generating solar or wind energy. The Post in research and development sector helps engineers to find the best way to generate and store energy from these renewable sources.
- Other Job areas include technical workers, mechanical engineers, asset management, electrical maintenance engineers and other staff that can check energy consumption, and its production and the ways of effective utilization at the optimal level. Project managers to check work, sales and marketing are must for any company making or distributing energy from the sources that are renewable. Even lawyers well versed with Environmental laws, finance heads are needed to run enterprises that endorse Solar or wind energy utilization.
Apart from these job posts, there are institutes too, which train students for jobs in the sector including Solar Energy, Wind Energy and other renewable energy jobs. According to the Latest report, the green jobs in the solar energy sector are about 8,000 which rose about 13.2 % in 2012 across United States.
The Most important point in identifying green jobs throughout the country include the usage of greener options along with conservation of energy and usage of the same by masses. When the use of solar panels will increase, the technical man power, manufacturing unit staff will increase thereby raising the need of man-power in “cleaner” sectors of the Industry. This also involves companies that recycle products, making biodegradable items or those which use less natural resources or primarily use solar and wind energy for the production of their material.
