Principal Paleontologist

Tetra Tech Inc., an industry leader and nationally recognized engineering and consulting firm, is seeking a professional, motivated, and technically accomplished candidate to fill a (remote) Principal Paleontologist / Paleontological Resources Business Line Lead role for our Federal NEPA, Environmental Compliance, and Resource Management and Planning team.

The candidate selected will become a part of the Tetra Tech Environmental Government Services division and will lead the development of a paleontological resources practice supporting Department of Defense and other federal contracts, as well as state, municipal, commercial, infrastructure, energy, transportation, and other sector projects. The Principal Paleontologist will serve as Tetra Tech’s senior technical authority for paleontological resources and will be responsible for developing the business line’s technical capabilities, project portfolio, client relationships, staff resources, quality control procedures, and strategic growth.

The position will support paleontological resource assessments, surveys, monitoring, inadvertent-discovery response, fossil salvage and collection, mitigation planning, agency coordination, repository relationships, and technical reporting.

The ideal candidate will have a dynamic history of paleontological resource management, environmental compliance, geological and paleontological field investigations, and program leadership. The candidate should have experience working with federal, state, and local agencies; engineering and construction teams; land-management agencies; museums and repositories; and private-sector clients.

The successful candidate will be expected to establish and grow a nationally recognized paleontological resources practice while coordinating closely with Tetra Tech’s cultural resources, NEPA, geology, natural resources, GIS, environmental compliance, engineering, and construction management teams.

This is a full-time salaried remote position.

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• Develop and oversee a nationwide portfolio of paleontological resources projects.
• Serve as Tetra Tech’s senior technical lead for paleontological assessments, sensitivity evaluations, surveys, monitoring, fossil discovery response, mitigation, collection, and curation.
• Establish and implement the technical framework for the paleontological resources business line, including service offerings, procedures, quality control processes, staffing plans, training, and technical guidance.
• Lead the preparation, review, and approval of paleontological assessments, survey reports, monitoring plans, mitigation and treatment plans, inadvertent discovery procedures, technical memoranda, and other deliverables.
• Provide technical direction for field surveys, construction monitoring, fossil discovery response, excavation, salvage, specimen documentation, and related field activities.
• Coordinate with project managers,…