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72D Environmental Science and Engineering

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Overview

Army environmental science and engineering officers lead or support medical, preventive medicine, environmental health, environmental engineering, occupational health, and industrial hygiene units. They also provide environmental science consultation, assess health hazards, manage technical projects, support force health protection staffs, and instruct preventive medicine personnel.

Core Skills

  • Occupational health and industrial hygiene oversight
  • Health hazard assessment and consultation
  • Preventive medicine and force health protection planning

Civilian Career Paths

Career associations are editorial assessments of the cited evidence, not an official crosswalk unless the evidence explicitly says so. O*NET supplies civilian occupation information, not proof of a military match. Related experience does not confer civilian qualifications. Tasks and tools below describe civilian work, not military training.

Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health

Environmental science consultation, environmental health assignments, and health hazard assessment transfer directly to environmental specialist work.

How to prepare: Develop a civilian-focused environmental assessment work sample that connects a health hazard to applicable environmental standards and recommended controls.

What the civilian work involves
  • Monitor effects of pollution or land degradation and recommend means of prevention or control.
  • Review and implement environmental technical standards, guidelines, policies, and formal regulations that meet all appropriate requirements.
  • Provide scientific or technical guidance, support, coordination, or oversight to governmental agencies, environmental programs, industry, or the public.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • ESRI ArcGIS software
  • Microsoft Excel

Occupational Health and Safety Specialists

Industrial hygiene, occupational health, and health hazard assessment assignments align with workplace hazard evaluation and worker protection programs.

How to prepare: Prepare a workplace hazard evaluation sample that maps an industrial hygiene problem to civilian safety standards, proposed controls, and follow-up monitoring.

What the civilian work involves
  • Recommend measures to help protect workers from potentially hazardous work methods, processes, or materials.
  • Develop or maintain hygiene programs, such as noise surveys, continuous atmosphere monitoring, ventilation surveys, or asbestos management plans.
  • Inspect or evaluate workplace environments, equipment, or practices to ensure compliance with safety standards and government regulations.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Word

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. Army COOL MOC feed: 72D Environmental Science and Engineering

    [1] data/authority/army-codes.json entry 72D (OSD COOL feed, fetched 2026-07-25); DB rank officer, authority codeType officer

    Supports: Occupational health and industrial hygiene oversight, Health hazard assessment and consultation, Preventive medicine and force health protection planning, Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health (O*NET 19-2041.00), Occupational Health and Safety Specialists (O*NET 19-5011.00)

  2. O*NET: Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health (O*NET 19-2041.00)

  3. O*NET: Occupational Health and Safety Specialists

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Occupational Health and Safety Specialists (O*NET 19-5011.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 72D

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