Environmental Sciences and Engineering Internships
Description
ESA provides hands on project experience for interns wishing to broaden their knowledge and experience in the field of environmental engineering. The program entails on the job participation in various projects in which the company is engaged. ESA has a broad spectrum of projects addressing environmental assessment, planning, and management with a bias to industry and mining.
* History of Firm
Established over a decade ago, EScience Associates (Pty) Ltd., a member of Environmental Science Associates, continues to be an industry leading environmental consultancy that provides a "one stop shop" of environmental solutions. This is achieved by combining expertise in the fields of environmental and atmospheric sciences, air quality, toxicology, waste management, Geographic Information Systems and computer science.
Due to the very broad nature of the environmental management discipline, and the large overlap with other fields of expertise, E-Science Associates has developed an integrated team of in-house consultants with specialist air quality, effluent and waste management competence, as well as a network of external environmental professionals from which expertise can be drawn where in-house know-how is not available.
The company has a history of successfully undertaking challenging projects and serves a diverse client base. It is E-Science professional ability to balance our client's needs with environmental best practice, sustainable, management solutions that has made E-Science Associates a well respected consultancy of choice within the Local, Provincial and National Government, Mining, Manufacturing, Chemical, Metallurgical and Energy Industry sectors. We take pride in delivering innovative, sustainable, solutions to our clients, helping them achieve environmental legal compliance and regulate their environmental impact optimally.
* Ethos
Environmental consulting primarily concerns advice and services pertaining to regulatory compliance, where the role of the environmental consultant is to provide guidance to a client to ensure their continued compliance with applicable legislation.
Whilst the above statement certainly holds true, E-Science Associates professional team firmly believe that the firm's continued success lies in pushing environmental consulting far beyond a mere "rubber stamping" exercise, which has become far too common place in the industry, to a consulting sector that balances tailored client / industry specific needs with best practice environmental management options and alternatives. This is aimed at achieving innovative solutions, to complex challenges, that are financially and environmentally acceptable to our clients, the public and all relevant spheres of Government.
It is a key and fundamental aim of the team of specialists that constitute E-Science Associates to apply the most appropriate technology and best practice environmental management techniques available, in order to enable sustainable and measurable improvements in the environmental performance and compliance of our clients. It is our view that this is best achieved through the development of long-term relationships with our clients and partnerships with other service providers in the industry.
In essence, it is our goal to provide consistently reliable services and innovative solutions to a wide variety of industry and government sectors. We aim to achieve this by providing incisive and forward looking advice, and providing the highest quality of work at competitive costs. It is our view that this can only be achieved by maintaining confidentiality, independence and high standards of professionalism. For this reason, every project is coordinated by a dedicated relationship director. He or she will take primary responsibility for building project relationships, working with the client to delineate and define your objectives within environmental legal constraints and discussing all the available options and developing an agreed approach.
Highlights
- Hands on experience in the field.
- Access to specialists in various fields of environmental science, law and management.
- Travel within South Africa, but not necessarily limited to South Africa.
ESA may provide testimony of the interns experience with the company, if requested by the intern.