Principal Technical Consultant, Archaeologist

Shape the future of cultural resources management in the American Southwest.

ERM is seeking a highly motivated Principal Technical Consultant, Archaeologist, to join our global consulting firm as part of our Cultural Resources Services team. This is a full-time, salaried position that can be based from a local ERM office, with remote work considered for a qualified  this senior leadership role, you will provide technical excellence, project leadership, mentorship, and business development support while helping clients navigate complex cultural resource and environmental compliance challenges throughout the United States.

Why This Role Matters?

As a senior cultural resources leader, you will play a critical role in advancing ERM’s cultural resources practice across the country while supporting strategic projects nationwide. You will combine technical expertise, client engagement, regulatory knowledge, team leadership, and business development to help clients achieve successful project outcomes while preserving and protecting cultural resources.

What Your Impact Is:

Serve as Permit Administrator/Principal Investigator on BLM Cultural Resources Use Permits and ARPA permits.

Provide technical-level quality assurance and quality control of deliverables prepared by other qualified archaeologists.

Oversee a team of archaeologists conducting desktop studies and field investigations, including reconnaissance- and pedestrian-level surveys, testing/excavations, and construction monitoring.

Lead, manage, mentor, and support mid-level and junior archaeologists, including participating in hiring, mentorship, and employee engagement activities. Collaborate closely with Cultural Resources Business Unit Leads, the Consulting Director for Archaeology, Area Managers, and Managing Partners.

Serve as primary author or task manager for cultural resources technical studies associated with large capital projects, ensuring project objectives, quality standards, budgets, and schedules are achieved.

Manage projects that range from multi-state linear developments to smaller site-specific initiatives.

Expand ERM’s presence and market share within the cultural resources sector through excellence in technical delivery and business development.

Partner with ERM Managing Partners to strengthen existing client relationships and develop new client opportunities that contribute to revenue growth.

Identify and support cross-selling opportunities across ERM service lines.

Collaborate within ERM’s multidisciplinary Western Rockies team, including environmental planners, biologists, wetland specialists, GIS specialists, engineers, and other technical professionals.

Represent ERM in meetings and communications with clients, agency representatives, teaming partners, subcontractors, and stakeholders.

Identify subcontractor needs and oversee the quality and schedule performance of subcontractors supporting cultural resources projects.

What You'll Bring:

Required Graduate degree in Anthropology, Archaeology, or a closely related field of study, or equivalent experience.
8+ years of related professional experience in archaeology, cultural resources management, and environmental consulting.

Secretary of the Interior-qualified archaeologist and Registered Professional Archaeologist (RPA), with qualifications meeting or exceeding applicable SHPO requirements for the region.

Demonstrated field experience and principal-level oversight of projects throughout the Southwest, including inventory, survey, testing, and data recovery efforts.

Demonstrated knowledge of Southwestern archaeology and NEPA compliance requirements.

Experience authoring and/or reviewing agency-submitted technical reports, including Class I and Class III reports, cultural resources…