Jobs / Management and business operations / 11-9199.11
Brownfield Redevelopment Specialists and Site Managers
Plan and direct cleanup and redevelopment of contaminated properties for reuse. Does not include properties sufficiently contaminated to qualify as Superfund sites.
- US jobs
- 622,190 (SOC 11-9199 group, "Managers, All Other")
- Median wage
- $141,900 a year
- Job family
- Management and business operations
Can agents do the work of brownfield redevelopment specialists and site managers?
We read the evidence at the level of the job family, Management and business operations:
- Task levelPartialOnly adjacent evidence. On TheAgentCompany, which gives agents workplace tasks inside a simulated software company, the best agent resolves 42.9% of tasks (a November 2025 result). No task-level benchmark in our collection maps directly to management or business operations.
- Project levelPartialMixed. OpenAI reports that GPT-5.5's GDPval deliverables won or tied against professionals' work in 84.9% of comparisons, and the best agent passes 73.5% of APEX-Agents tasks on the first try. Running a business is weaker: on Vending-Bench 2 the best model ends a simulated year with $15,515, about a quarter of Andon Labs' estimate for a good strategy.
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in management and business operations, not always this occupation's tasks.
- 1846 EloClaude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback) · 23 Sep 2026Unrated
- 42.9%TTE-MatrixAgent + DeepSeek-V3.2 · 10 Nov 2025Emerging
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Identify environmental contamination sources.
- Coordinate on-site activities for environmental cleanup or remediation projects to ensure compliance with environmental laws, standards, regulations, or other requirements.
- Identify and apply for project funding.
- Plan or implement brownfield redevelopment projects to ensure safety, quality, and compliance with applicable standards or requirements.
- Estimate costs for environmental cleanup and remediation of land redevelopment projects.
- Conduct quantitative risk assessments for human health, environmental, or other risks.
- Design or implement plans for surface or ground water remediation.
- Design or implement measures to improve the water, air, and soil quality of military test sites, abandoned mine land, or other contaminated sites.
- Review or evaluate environmental remediation project proposals.
- Prepare reports or presentations to communicate brownfield redevelopment needs, status, or progress.
- Inspect sites to assess environmental damage or monitor cleanup progress.
- Maintain records of decisions, actions, and progress related to environmental redevelopment projects.
Other job titles for this occupation (33)
Brownfield Program Director · Brownfield Program Manager · Brownfield Redevelopment Coordinator · Brownfields Practice Leader · Brownfields Program Coordinator · Brownfields Program Manager · Environmental Practice Leader · Environmental Program Manager · Environmental Quality Division Manager · Environmental Quality Specialist · Brownfield Redevelopment Site Manager · Brownfield Redevelopment Specialist · Cleanup Monitor · Contaminated Land Consultant · Contamination Consultant · Corridor Redevelopment Manager · Damage Restoration Specialist · Debris Cleanup Monitor · Debris Monitor · Environmental Management Specialist · Environmental Remediation Consultant · Environmental Remediation Specialist · Grounds Restoration Specialist · Licensed Site Remediation Professional (LSRP) · Redevelopment Manager · Redevelopment Specialist · Remedial Project Manager · Remediation Bioanalytics Consultant · Remediation Consultant · Remediation Expert · Sediment Remediation Consultant · Site Remediation Professional · Urban Redevelopment Specialist