Archaeological Field Director

Archaeological Field Director Opportunity

Stantec is currently recruiting for a part-time on-call Archaeological Field Director to work out of our Central Pennsylvania office and potentially on future projects throughout the country. The successful candidate should be located within normal commuting distance of our New Cumberland, Pennsylvania office.

Key Responsibilities:

• Direct data management prior to cultural resource projects
• Direct cultural resource projects in the field and laboratory
• Organize fieldwork
• Manage inventory, processing, and curation of archaeological materials
• Direct archival background research
• Write technical reports and historic background summaries
• Survey transects up to fifteen miles in length on a daily basis
• Recordation and delineation of archaeological sites
• Completion of archaeological site forms, site sketches, profiles, logs, and other paperwork
• Excavation of shovel test pits, test units, trenches, or other excavation as needed
• Identification and description of soil profiles, horizons, artifacts, and cultural features
• Artifact organization, processing, and inventory
• Must meet the Secretary of the Interior Standards for Archaeology

Qualifications:

• Excellent written, oral, and computer skills
• Ability to exercise professional discretion and judgment
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Periodic travel required, including international travel
• The candidate must be able to work in project locations remote from their home office for extended time periods. Such remote deployments may recur with as little as three calendar days intervening between deployments.
• Must possess a valid Real ID driver's license with a clean record
• Drug screen required for position
• Graduate degree in Archaeology, Anthropology, or closely related field
• Completion of an archaeological field school and a minimum of one year of professional archaeological supervisory experience (no academic experience may fill this requirement)
• Experience in Mid-Atlantic archaeology preferred
• Experience with cultural resources surveys on military installations preferred
• Experience with completing archaeological forms and paperwork
• Experience identifying soil horizons, cultural features, and artifacts
• Experience with ArcGIS associated applications such as Survey123 and Field Maps
• Experience in organizing and inventorying data

Physical Demands:

• The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, sit, talk, and hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include, close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• The employee may be required to walk up to 15 miles a day in rough and uneven terrain and transport up to 35 pounds of gear.
• This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.
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Primary Location: United States | PA | New Cumberland