Registered Environmental Technician (REnvTech)
Technical excellence, expertise and experience
What is REnvTech?
The Registered Environmental Technician designation is a title which denotes professional attainment and expertise for technicians working within the environmental sector. Technicians come from a diverse range of professions underpinned by the application of technical knowledge and skills, spanning the breadth of academia, government, industry, consultancy, and other public and private sectors.
As a Registered Environmental Technician, you can demonstrate that you are distinctly skilled and committed to maintaining high standards of professionalism through continual learning.
"...technicians are a key force, linking theoretical design and development work with the practical involvement and investigation required on site."
What is the value of REnvTech
- Enhanced employability and greater career prospects
- Recognition of technical expertise and experience
- Professional status and use of the post-nominal REnvTech
- Demonstrable commitment to life-long learning through Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
- Access to an active network of environmental technicians, scientists and professionals
- Progression towards Chartered Status, including CEnv and CSci
- Opportunity to strengthen and support employee learning and development
- Raise professional recognition of your organisation
- Boost career satisfaction and demonstrate value of technical employees
- Uphold specialist expertise and competence
- Lead the way in promoting growth and innovation within your sector
- Maintain a highly skilled, trained and valued workforce
- Ensure sustained technical innovation and prosperity across the environmental science sector
- Uphold expertise and knowledge pivotal to the development of scientific and technological research
- Secure the skills needed to address an increasing demand for newly trained technicians
Application details
To be eligible for the REnvTech designation, you will need to have a minimum of:
- two years' full-time relevant work-based experience; and
- equivalent of a Level 3 in the Qualifications and Credit Framework of England, Wales and Northern Ireland (or equivalent knowledge through professional practice).
Candidates must also be an Affiliate, Associate or Full Member of the IES to apply.
Candidates need to demonstrate that they meet all of the four key competences:
- Application of knowledge and understanding of the environment to further the aims of sustainability
- Actively support sustainable management of the environment
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills
- Personal commitment to professional standards, recognising obligations to society, the profession and the environment
Candidates demonstrate their competence by completing a competency report.
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