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Stantec is currently recruiting for three part‑time on‑call Archaeological Field Technician positions to work out of our Central Pennsylvania office on future projects throughout the country. The successful candidate should be located within normal commuting distance of our New Cumberland, Pennsylvania office. Stantec is also recruiting three part‑time on‑call Archaeological Field Technicians near our Hampton, Virginia office for future projects throughout the country.
The successful candidate should be located within normal commuting distance of our Hampton, Virginia office.
Key Responsibilities
- 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
- Excellent written, oral, and computer skills
- Ability to exercise professional discretion and judgment
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Periodic travel required, including international travel
- 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 driver’s license with clean record
- Drug screen required for position
- BA degree in Archaeology or Anthropology
- Completion of an archaeological field school or a minimum of one year of professional archaeological experience (no academic experience may fill this requirement)
- Experience in Mid-Atlantic archaeology preferred
- Experience in Archaeological Survey
- Experience with completing archaeological forms and paperwork
- Experience identifying soil horizons, cultural features, and artifacts
- Experience in organizing and inventorying data
- 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
- Will be required to perform other duties as requested, directed or assigned. 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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