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Extractive Industries Ecoanalyst (Mitigation Management)

Extractive Industries Ecoanalyst (Mitigation Management)

Profession will appear after 2025

Trends

Increase in the number of domestic and foreign developments adaptation for oil and gas fields of Kazakhstan

Oil and gas

Growing environmental demands on industry are forcing industrial enterprises, including the oil and gas sector, to invest heavily in environmental monitoring and environmental protection. In order to reduce emissions of harmful substances and minimize environmental costs, an analysis and development of environmental protection measures is required.

The novelty of the profession: fulfilling new tasks: proactively reducing the emission of harmful substances without reference to legal requirements

Key competencies:

Analysis of environmental threats
Development of measures to reduce harmful effects on the environment
Participation in the preparation of a feasibility study for projects to reduce emissions
Monitoring of emissions, preparation of recommendations for improvement

Over-professional skills

The ability of a specialist to combine (summarize) particular facts into a big picture, build hierarchical levels for understanding various situations (economic, political, business) and making long-term decisions. An important quality is the understanding of how a change in one element will subsequently affect other elements.

The importance of systemic thinking is increasing due to the acceleration of changes in life, the need to learn new professions, as well as the growing interpenetration of various areas in each other (social networks, economics, politics, production, etc.).

Specialists with systemic thinking skills will be able to solve such problems, make strong long-term decisions in the context of rapid changes in the economy, diagnose large technical and social systems, make decisions on eliminating the root causes that hinder development, and this skill will allow for the integration of various project teams into a single working organism.

Systemic thinking

Project and process management includes the ability to focus on the project goals, the ability to competently plan and organize team actions for the effective implementation of tasks, the ability to assess existing risks and opportunities for all parties to the interaction. A specialist who has this skill knows how to properly organize the work on the project within the specified funding framework, and is able to correctly distribute the work in order to meet the deadlines set by the project. such a specialist is constantly learning something new, is not afraid to make mistakes, is able to generate new effective ways to solve problems and tasks. the demand for specialists with knowledge and tools in the field of project management will increase, as project activities are considered by companies as the most important factor in their effective development

Project and process management

Environmental thinking is focused on achieving harmony between business and the environment. A business cycle is already developing from creation to disposal of a product, and not just its sale and consumption. Environmental thinking puts health and sustainable development at the top of the list.

The importance of environmental thinking is increasing due to the fact that industrial development has reached the limit and all further models of sustainable growth of society, the economy and business should be built on the basis of mutual interests with nature, the ecosystem, its maintenance and development.

Specialists with environmental thinking skills will be able to solve such problems as: respect for resources, achieving zero emission of harmful substances into the environment, waste management and use of secondary resources

Environmental thinking

Educational institutions

Humanitarian and Technical Institute "Akmeshit"