Careers & Graduate Opportunities
A degree in Energy Resource Management and Development opens doors to a wide variety
of career pathways in the energy sector and beyond. Explore some of the professional
options below as well as graduate opportunitites.
Professional Land Management Concentration
Average Starting Salary: $80,000
100% Job placement or graduate school acceptance within six months of graduation since 2017.
Energy and Environmental Systems Concentration
Average Starting Salary: $58,100
100% Job placement or graduate school acceptance within six months of graduation since 2017.
Job Opportunities - PLM
- Land Acquisition Specialist
- Surface Landman
- Contract Landman
- Mineral Landman
- Division Order Analyst
- Realty Specialist
- Right-of-Way Agent
- Real Estate Agent
- Project Manager
- Public Relations Manager
Typical employers are companies in the oil, gas, pipeline, coal, utilities, wind and
solar fields; federal and state government; law firms; and independent landmen brokerage
companies.
Job Opportunities - EES
- Enviromental Scientist
- Biological Field Technician
- Industrial Ecologist
- Laboratory Technician
- Natural Resource Analyst
- Environmental Compliance Coordinator
- Environment Health and Safety Analyst
- Environmental Services Technician
- Regulatory Analyst
- Water/Range Technician
Typical employers are oil and gas companies; coal companies; environmental consulting
firms; conservation districts; state and federal governments.
Recent Graduate Jobs - PLM
- BP Lower 48 - Surface Land Negotiator
- Hoover and Stacy - Independent Landman
- ISEC - Project Engineer
- Kearns & West - Facilitation - Post Graduate Internship
- LoneTree Energy & Associates - Contract Landman
- McDonald Land Services - Lease Buyer
- NextEra Energy Inc - Land Services Representative
- NorthStar Energy - Contract Landman
- Occidental Petroleum (formerly Anadarko Petroleum Corp.) - Surface Landman
- Pacer Energy - Landman
- QEP Resources - Division Order Analyst
- Royal Dutch Shell - Land Representative
- Tri-State Generation & Transmission Assoc - Transmission Siting Permiting & Environmental
Planner
- Ultra Petroleum - Land Technician
- Wyoming Department of Transportation - Land Management Specialist II
- Western States Land Services - Land Agent
- Rocking WW Minerals - Title Landman
- US Army - Signal Officer
- Bureau of Land Management - Production Accountability Manager
Recent Graduate Jobs - EES
- Absaroka Energy & Environmental Consulting LLC - Environmental Technician
- Campbell County Conservation District - Water/Range Technician
- Crestone - EHS&R Field Technician
- DCP Midstream - Environmental Compliance Coordinator
- Down Hole Tools of Wyoming - Field Representative
- Encana - Environmental Health & Safety Analyst
- Encana - Regulatory Analyst
- Environmental Works Inc - Compliance Scientist
- FDL Energy - Environmental Engineer
- Halliburton - Laboratory Technician
- Kiewit - Field Engineer
- Kiewit - Environmental Engineer
- Manly Vale - Environmental Scientist
- Marathon - Air Quality Specialist
- SWCA Environmental Consulting - Biological Field Technician
- USDA NRCS - Soil Conservation
- Western States Reclamation Inc. - Foreman
- Wood Group PSN - Project Engineer
- Wyoming State Engineers Office - Natural Resource Analyst
- Trihydro - LDAR Environment Technician
Graduate School Opportunities
A degree in Energy Resource Management and Development provides a pathway to many
graduate programs and law school. With a foundation in fundamental law courses and
negotiations in both concentrations, students are set up for success as they embark
on their postgraduate legal education.
Students wishing to pursue a Masters Degree in scientific fields have a variety of
options to choose from including water quality, rangeland ecology and watershed management,
and environmental & natural resources.
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