Associate Paleontologist

Tetra Tech Inc. is seeking a professional, motivated, and technically capable Associate Paleontologist to support our Federal NEPA, Environmental Compliance, and Resource Management and Planning team. The selected candidate will join the Tetra Tech Environmental Government Services division and support paleontological compliance projects for Department of Defense and other federal contracts, as well as state, municipal, commercial, infrastructure, energy, transportation, and other projects.

The Associate Paleontologist will primarily perform project-level work in field, laboratory, and office settings under the direction of a Principal Paleontologist, Project Manager, or other senior technical lead. The position will support paleontological resource assessments, field surveys, construction monitoring, fossil discovery response, specimen documentation, fossil salvage and collection, laboratory processing, data management, and technical reporting. This is a technical position requiring the knowledge, skills, and ability to independently perform assigned paleontological compliance work and deliver accurate, timely, and professional work products.

The position will have involve some responsibility for staff supervision; as well as supporting roles in business development, program management, and overall project accountability.

This is a full-time salaried remote position.

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• Conduct paleontological resource surveys, field inventories, sensitivity assessments, and construction monitoring.
• Perform fossil discovery response activities, including identification, documentation, evaluation, collection, salvage, and preliminary assessment of specimens.
• Support excavation, fossil recovery, specimen preparation, cataloging, packaging, labeling, and transfer to approved repositories or laboratories.
• Maintain accurate field notes, locality records, photographs, maps, specimen inventories, monitoring logs, and chain‑of‑custody documentation.
• Assist with paleontological assessments, survey reports, monitoring reports, mitigation plans, treatment plans, inadvertent‑discovery procedures, technical memoranda, and other project deliverables.
• Conduct paleontological research, literature reviews, records searches, background research, and data compilation.
• Support compliance with the Paleontological Resources Preservation Act, NEPA, federal and state regulations, agency policies, permit conditions, and other applicable requirements.
• Implement approved field and laboratory methods, monitoring procedures, mitigation measures, and specimen‑handling protocols.
• Coordinate with project managers, construction personnel, geologists, archaeologists, environmental planners, engineers, GIS specialists, laboratories, repositories, subcontractors, and other project staff.
• Communicate field discoveries, project status, technical issues, schedule concerns, and compliance…