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Green Jobs Initiative

The Fastest & Simplest Way To Find Early Career Opportunities With Green Skill Development

Net Impact UC has partnered with the career fair production board to integrate the Green Jobs Initiative into the University of Cincinnati Professional and Technical Career Fair. The initiative highlights employers that offer sustainability-based skill development within a job description or the company itself. 

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Approved employers receive additional identifiers and marketing to better connect students with "green" job employers. The Net Impact Career Development team approves companies via an audit of the Net Impact UC definition and criteria for a "green" job. The criteria were developed in reference to LinkedIn's Economic Graph Report and consultation with sustainability professionals.

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If you are an employer looking to tap into a passionate and ambitious student talent pool to meet your green job roles, reach out to cincy.netimpact@gmail.com. More information can be found on UC’s career fair page here. If you are a student looking for a green job, follow our instagram and stay tuned to find out when the next opportunities will be. 

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The Why

Sustainability is playing a transformative role in the global economy, shifting business priorities and changing how businesses operate. This is creating a demand for candidates with skills that enable business activities to become environmentally sustainable.

 

At the same time, students and job seekers increasingly want to work at companies that are purpose-driven and make a positive impact. At the University of Cincinnati there has been an increasing demand for sustainability related positions from students. In a recent survey carried out, over 400 students' responses indicated that 82% of students view a company's sustainability practices as at least moderately important when considering an internship.

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Green Jobs Designation

Defining "Green" Jobs

A "green" job will employ specific skills to enable the environmental sustainability of economic activity. The definition is approved by Net Impact UC's External Advisory Board for Sustainable Business, including representatives from Fifth Third Bank, Kroger, Benchmark Digital, GenSuite, Donovan Energy, and Cintrifuse.

 

A green job must include responsibilities that develop skills in 1 of 13 categories. Roles that aren’t inherently “green” have the opportunity to provide students skills and knowledge needed to power the future green economy. This is why Net Impact UC is focused on the responsibilities within a job description, and not the role itself.

 

The transition to renewable energy and circularity will be dependent on the future workforce obtaining green skills and employing these across different industries, organizations, and roles.​​

Green Skill Categories

Pollution Prevention

Any work that prevents, eliminates, or reduces pollutants at the source such as air emissions, solid and hazardous waste, and/or liquid discharges.

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Sample skills or tasks: wastewater treatment, green infrastructure design, air emission reporting, and sampling or point source emission reduction

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Spring 2025 Green Jobs Impact

UC Technical and Professional Career Fair 

Spring 2025 UC Career Fair
February 11th-13th

Spring 2025 Green Job Descriptions

To qualify as a Green Jobs Employer, Career Fair companies must submit job descriptions for review. Take a look at the actual green job descriptions that employers are hiring for at the fair.

Spring 2025 
Employers

  • Infineon Technologies

  • Kao

  • Kinetic Vision

  • L'Oreal

  • Moss & Associates

  • Northern Kentucky Water District

  • Nucor Raw Materials

  • Regal Rexnord

  • Schaeffler

  • Skanska

  • Strand Associates

  • The Dupps Company

  • Aeroseal

  • Altec industries

  • Avient Corporation

  • Clean Harbors

  • CMTA Inc.

  • Copeland

  • Crowder Construction Company

  • DLZ Corporation

  • Duke Energy

  • GPD Group

  • Great Parks

  • Helix Electric

  • Honda​

Green Jobs Initiative Fair Archive

Professional & Technical Fair

Professional & Technical Fair

Professional & Technical Fair

Professional & Technical Fair

Fall 2024 Green Jobs Impact

UC Technical and Professional Career Fair 

Fall 2024

Fall 2024 Green Job Descriptions

To qualify as a Green Jobs Employer, Career Fair companies must submit job descriptions for review. Take a look at the actual green job descriptions that employers are hiring for at the fair.

Fall 2024 
Employers

  • Metallus Inc

  • Momentive Performance Materials

  • Northern Kentucky Water District

  • Novolex

  • Nucor Raw Materials 

  • Olin

  • One Energy

  • Procter & Gamble (P&G)

  • Regal Rexnord Corporation

  • Renewable Energy Systems

  • RMS Energy

  • Salas O'Brien

  • Sappi North America

  • Southland Industries

  • SSR Inc

  • Stantec 

  • Strand Associates

  • Terracon

  • The Dupps Company

  • The Lincoln Electric Company

  • The Sherwin-Williams Company

  • Trimble Inc.

  • Trinity Consultants

  • UES: Geotechnology

  • Ulliman Schutte Construction

  • US Army Corps of Engineers

  • Valeo North America

  • AES Corporation

  • Altec Industries

  • American Structurepoint

  • Arcadis

  • Armstrong World Industries

  • B&G Foods

  • Battelle

  • Black & Veatch

  • Cintas Corporation

  • City of Cincinnati MSD

  • Cleveland-Cliffs

  • CMTA

  • Copeland

  • Designfusion

  • Duke Energy

  • EMCOR

  • GE Aerospace

  • Givaudan

  • GPD Group

  • HEAPY

  • Henkel

  • Honda

  • Idaho National Laboratory

  • Infineon Technologies

  • Ingredion Incorporated

  • J.M. Smuker Company

  • Kao

  • Kinetic Vision

  • Korda/Nemeth Engineering

  • L3Harris Technologies

  • LGES Honda Joint Venture

Spring 2024 Green Jobs Impact

UC Technical and Professional Career Fair 

Spring 2024

Spring 2024 Green Job Descriptions

To qualify as a Green Jobs Employer, Career Fair companies must submit job descriptions for review. Take a look at the actual green job descriptions that employers are hiring for at the fair.

Spring 2024 
Employers

  • KFI Engineers

  • Kimley-Horn

  • Langan Engineering and Environmental Services

  • LPL Solar

  • Melink Corporation

  • Ohio Department of Natural Resources​

  • Renewable Energy Systems

  • Strand Associates, Inc.

  • Ulliman Schutte Construction

  • US Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District

  • U.S. Department of State

  • U. S. General Services Administration (GSA)

  • Altec Industries

  • American Structurepoint, Inc.

  • Benchmark Gensuite

  • B&G Foods

  • CMTA, Inc.

  • Copeland

  • DLZ Corporation

  • Duke Energy

  • E Tech Group

  • Guidon Design

  • Hensel Phelps

  • Honda

  • I.C. Thomasson Associates, Inc.

  • Ingredion Incorporated

  • Jordan & Skala Engineers​

Fall 2023 Green Jobs Impact

UC Technical and Professional Career Fair 

Fall 2023

Fall 2023 Green Job Descriptions

To qualify as a Green Jobs Employer, Career Fair companies must submit job descriptions for review. Take a look at the actual green job descriptions that employers are hiring for at the fair.

Fall 2023 Green Jobs Impact

UC Technical and Professional Career Fair 

Fall 2023 Employers

  • AES Corporation

  • Altec Industries

  • Alterra Energy

  • American Structurepoint, Inc.

  • Battelle

  • Battle Motors

  • Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC

  • CMTA, Inc.

  • Colliers Engineering & Design

  • Consulting Services Incorporated

  • DLZ Corporation

  • Duke Energy

  • Fishbeck

  • Gearsupply LLC

  • Geotechnology

  • Grumman//Butkus

  • HEAPY

  • Honda

  • I.C. Thomasson Associates, Inc.

  • Idaho National Laboratory

  • Ingredion Incorporated

  • Jordan & Skala Engineers

  • Kimley-Horn

  • Kinetic Vision

  • Korda/Nemeth Engineering, Inc.

  • Kroger Co.

  • Loreal

  • Louisville Sewer District

  • McCarthy Building Companies, Inc.

  • Melink

  • Moss & Associates (Energy & Construction)

  • Mubea

  • NorthPoint Development

  • One Energy Enterprises

  • PepsiCo

  • Perfetti Van Melle

  • Procter & Gamble (P&G)

  • Renewable Energy Systems

  • SSR, Inc.

  • The AES Corporation

  • TowerPinkster

  • Trane Technologies

  • Trimble, Inc.

  • Trinity Consultants

  • Ulliman Schutte Construction

  • US Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District

  • Walsh Group

Spring 2023

Spring 2023 Green Jobs Impact

UC Technical and Professional Career Fair 

Spring 2023 Green Job Descriptions

To qualify as a Green Jobs Employer, Career Fair companies must submit job descriptions for review. Take a look at the actual green job descriptions that employers are hiring for at the fair.

Spring 2023 Employers

  • Aqua Science, Inc.

  • B&G Foods

  • Battle Motors

  • Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC

  • Black & Veatch

  • Blue Cypress

  • C&I Engineering

  • Cintas

  • CMTA, Inc.

  • Dean Dorton

  • DLZ Corporation

  • Duke Energy

  • Emerson

  • Enerfab

  • Energy Harbor

  • Environmental Quality Management, Inc.

  • First Solar

  • FirstEnergy Corp.

  • Fisher Marantz Stone

  • GE Aerospace

  • Givaudan Flavors Corp.

  • GPD Group

  • Great American Insurance Group

  • Hamilton County R3Source

  • HEAPY

  • Helix Electric

  • ​HWC Engineering, Inc.

  • Idaho National Laboratory - Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC

  • Ingredion Incorporated

  • Jordan & Skala Engineers

  • Kaney, Inc.

  • Kimley Horn

  • Kinetic Vision

  • L'Oreal

  • Langan Engineering and Environmental Services

  • McCarthy Building Companies, Inc.

  • Moss

  • MSD

  • Mubea

  • Nucor Raw Materials

  • P&G

  • Perfetti Van Melle

  • RedBuilt

  • Regal Rexnord Corporation

  • Renewable Energy Systems

  • Stantec

  • Terracon

  • The Brewer-Garrett Company

  • TMI Energy Solutions

  • Trane Technologies

  • Ulliman Schutte Construction

  • Weaver Consultants Group

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