environmental mining engineer
Environmental mining engineers oversee the environmental performance of mining operations. They develop and implement environmental systems and strategies to minimise environmental impacts.
environmental mining engineer environmental mining engineers oversee the environmental performance of mining operations. They develop and implement environmental systems and strategies to minimise environmental impacts. The role shows moderate AI exposure (0.50 on a 0-1 scale) — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. The most in-demand skills for the role include engineering principles, technical drawings, engineering processes, civil engineering, chemistry.
Pay in the UK
UK: median £43,362 a year for Environment professionals (ONS ASHE 2025, full-time)
Middle half of full-time jobs: £33,231 to £51,849 a year
UK jobs are grouped differently; this is the closest UK occupation group (ONS SOC 2020 2152). ONS rates this estimate reasonably precise. 2025 provisional figures; ONS revises them a year later. Source: ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (Open Government Licence)
Pay in India (occupation group)
Average monthly earnings of salaried employees in the occupation group “Professionals” in India, from the Government of India's Periodic Labour Force Survey (January–December 2025). It covers everyone in this group, not only environmental mining engineer, and it is not US pay converted to rupees.
Source: MoSPI (Government of India), Periodic Labour Force Survey Annual Report 2025, Table 51 — average wage/salary earnings of regular wage/salaried employees, NCO-2015 division 2. Official India data gives one average per occupation group: there are no official India figures for single careers, experience levels or cities. Read the report
Top skills
Frequently asked questions
What does environmental mining engineer do?
Environmental mining engineers oversee the environmental performance of mining operations. They develop and implement environmental systems and strategies to minimise environmental impacts.
What skills does environmental mining engineer need?
The most in-demand skills for this role include engineering principles, technical drawings, engineering processes, civil engineering, chemistry, mining, construction and civil engineering machinery products. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.
Will AI replace environmental mining engineer?
Our AI-durability model gives environmental mining engineer a score of 0.50 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.