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TERRACON

Project Archaeologist

Saint Louis, MO

This is a full-time position with benefits. Essential Roles and Responsibilities: * Follow safety ... Conduct independent pre-contact and historic documentary research. * Develop proposals ...

TERRACON

Project Archaeologist

Saint Louis, MO · On-site

$64K - $100K/yr

This is a full-time position with benefits. Essential Roles and Responsibilities: * Follow safety ... Conduct independent pre-contact and historic documentary research. * Develop proposals ...

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Project Archaeologist

Project Archaeologist

TERRACON

Saint Louis, MO

Full-time

Posted 24 days ago

Terracon rating

7.3

Company rating: 7.3 out of 10

Based on 112 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

42nd of 57 rated business consultants

Job description

General Responsibilities:
Are you looking to join an established environmental planning practice with the opportunity to build your own local cultural resources team? We are looking for a Senior Archaeologist to help grow our cultural resources team in Lenexa, Kansas. This is a full-time position with benefits.
Essential Roles and Responsibilities:
  • Follow safety rules, guidelines and standards for all projects. Participate in pre-task planning. Report any safety issues or concerns to management.
  • Be responsible for maintaining quality standards on all projects.
  • Design, conduct, and report on archaeological investigations of all types (pre-contact, historic, industrial, rural, urban) and phases (survey, evaluation, mitigation) to regulatory agency standards on projects located in the central region with an emphasis on MO and KS.
  • Conduct independent pre-contact and historic documentary research.
  • Develop proposals, methodologies, and research designs for all types and phases of archaeological projects.
  • Supervise and coordinate field and laboratory crews.
  • Coordinate and assist internal and external clients with cultural resources regulatory compliance.
  • Coordinate with other Archaeological Principal Investigators and historians within Terracon across the region and nationally.
  • Market our archaeological services to new and existing clients.
  • Manage projects within budget and deadline constraints.
  • Grow and manage a local team of full and part time field archaeologists.

Preferred:
  • Professional experience as an Archaeological Principal Investigator in MO, IL, AR, and/or KS.
  • Professional experience working on solar farms, commercial developments, and communications tower projects.
  • Experience writing bid and proposal packages for large mutli-year state and federal government contracts.
  • Experience marketing archaeological services.
  • Experience managing a team of archaeologists.
  • Listed as a Registered Professional Archaeologist or ability to obtain RPA status.

Required
  • Meet SOI Qualifications as Principal Investigator
  • Ability to work as an Archaeological Principal Investigator under the requirements of the State Historic Preservation Officer in MO.
  • Minimum of Master's degree in Anthropology or closely related field.
  • A minimum of ten (10) years of experience with increasing responsibility including at least one (1) year of experience serving as a Principal Investigator and/or Project Archaeologist in U.S. with a professional cultural resource, architectural, or engineering firm or a federal or state agency such as a State Historic Preservation Office.
  • Intimate knowledge of Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act.
  • Ability to communicate clearly and concisely using both written and verbal skills.
  • Ability to multi-task within flexible/fluid schedules and project needs.
  • Ability to lead teams of archaeologists to complete fieldwork, reporting, lab work and curation in compliance with regulatory obligations.
  • Eligibility to work in the United States without sponsorship.
  • Ability to pass drug screening.
  • Possession of a U.S. driver's license, with acceptable violation history.

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