Senior Archaeologist: Field Director & Principal Investigator

True Environmental; Wyoming (OH); On-site; USD 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Sundance Consultants, a part of True Environmental and its partner firms, seeks an Archaeologist PI/Field Director to lead cultural resources field crews and expand archaeology services across Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. The role covers NHPA and NEPA compliance, data recovery, and report writing, with supervision of junior staff.

You will mentor staff, coordinate with clients, agencies, and Tribes, and guide project scope, schedule, and budgets while ensuring high-quality outputs across

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Archaeology, Anthropology or related field.
• Registered Professional Archaeologist.
• Ability to hold state permits for archaeology.
• Minimum five (5) years of supervisory experience; eight preferred.
• Proven ability to meet deadlines while remaining detail-oriented, organized, and team oriented.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, professional writing, problem solving skills.
• Demonstrated skills and experience in project planning, development, and management.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently with general supervision.
• Valid driver's license and good driving record.
• Must be eligible to be employed in the US.

Responsibilities

• Lead cultural resources projects, business development opportunities and provide successful and independent management of archaeological and historic resources projects, including direction of field studies and assembly, supervision and direction of field teams.
• Lead/Principal investigator for cultural resources projects include performing research, archaeological fieldwork surveys, monitoring, testing, and data recovery projects, historical research, preservation activities, report preparation, site forms and curation of archaeological artifacts.
• Coordinate project mobilization and demobilization to project sites.
• Provide successful and independent management of archaeological and historic resources projects, including direction of field studies and assembly, supervision, and direction of field teams.
• Support Section 106 and Section 110 of the NHPA, including analysis, technical studies and project permitting for a wide variety of private, federal, state and local government clients and tribal entities.
• Mentor and provide technical and operations resources for staff and project managers and supervise cultural staff.
• Lead technical and strategy elements of proposal development including scope, schedule and budget.
• Meeting project scope, schedule, and budget obligations for project management tasks.
• Ensure the delivery of high-quality technical products through implementation of independent and quality review protocols.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Project management

Independent work

Team oriented

Problem solving

Education

Master's degree in Archaeology/Anthropology

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Sundance Consultants, a part of True Environmental and its partner firms, seeks an Archaeologist PI/Field Director to lead cultural resources field crews and expand archaeology services across Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. The role covers NHPA and NEPA compliance, data recovery, and report writing, with supervision of junior staff.

You will mentor staff, coordinate with clients, agencies, and Tribes, and guide project scope, schedule, and budgets while ensuring high-quality outputs across