Senior Archaeological Consultant

Senior Archaeological Consultant

Final date to receive applications: 2 October 2026

Department: Consultancy

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Manchester

Compensation: £39,290 - £46,531 / year

Locations
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Hereford, Manchester, Helsby, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Silsoe, Cleckheaton.

Contract Type: Permanent, subject to 6-month probation period

Closing Date: 5pm Friday 2nd of October

Headland Archaeology is offering an opportunity for an experienced and motivated consultant to join our Team.

Why Should You Apply?

We are a privately owned archaeological business, part of the RSK Group, a leader in integrated environmental, engineering, and technical services. We provide heritage services to the development and construction sectors in UK and across the world.

The Headland Archaeology Consultancy Team prides itself on offering independent excellent technical advice to clients and colleagues rooted in years of experience in the sector. We tell clients what they need to know, rather than what they want to hear.

With offices in England and Scotland, we offer our employees:

• Unique knowledge and expertise. For the past 30 years, Headland has provided not only business-focused archaeology but also people-focused business. We are highly respected within our industry for our achievements in innovation, tailor-made development coaching and training, and our expertise in commercial archaeology.
• Strong pioneering spirit. Our corporate culture is characterised by a healthy appetite for originality and development.
• Stable company with excellent growth. Over the years, we have demonstrated steady, positive economic development and formed successful partnerships.
• Good work environment. You will be surrounded by colleagues who are pleasant, professional, and enthusiastic about their work.
• Opportunity to influence. You get to work in an open climate, close to decision makers and with the possibility of making a difference.
• Part of RSK group. You will have further opportunities to become involved in nationally and internationally prominent projects with exciting prospects for career development. The group has c.17000 employees and c.230 environmentally lead companies.

We are looking to appoint a Senior archaeological and/or built heritage consultant with expertise in the preparation of technical documents supporting clients in addressing heritage constraints.

The appointee will have a thorough understanding of the legislative and planning policy framework within which commercial archaeology is undertaken in the UK. Applicants should have significant and demonstrable experience of preparing archaeological desk-based assessments and/or built heritage statements, environmental impact assessments and written schemes of investigation.

Experience in identifying heritage constraints on complex or large-scale infrastructure projects and/or providing inputs to historic environment assessments for solar and wind energy projects is of particular relevance.

We are looking for candidates who can work autonomously, with experience of liaising with clients, negotiating with statutory consultees, assessing impacts on the historic environment, directly managing cultural heritage projects or archaeological sub-contractors and offering technical advice.

You will work on projects and with colleagues from across the RSK Group.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Develop client relationships
• Supervise junior colleagues and be responsible for projects they are running
• Undertake technical peer reviews of colleagues’ key deliverables
• Brief or manage other staff to assist in delivering your duties
• Identify and exploit commercial opportunities, supporting sales efforts
• Prepare fee proposals for technical review
• Liaise with clients, consultees and manage contractors
• Baseline data collection (from archives, site walk-over survey, setting assessments etc.) or manage others undertaking same
• Prepare technical documents (risk appraisals, DBA, WSI, EIA chapters)
• Attend meetings
• Manage project finances - setting up tenders, projects, managing WiP and issuing invoices
• Manage work across multiple projects

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