Job Description

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 build and lead the Iowa Archaeology Group to facilitate ongoing and cultivate future opportunities for archaeological services. This will also entail collaborating with our established Principal Investigators (PIs) and archaeological teams across the Midwest—as well as our network of archaeologists across the continental United States. This is a full-time position with benefits.
We are an employee-owned organization that focuses on supporting our staff and their development while providing exceptional customer service to our clients.

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 Iowa and the upper Midwest.
• 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.