On-Call Early Career Archaeological Field Technician

This Opportunity

WSP is currently initiating a search for an On-Call Early Career Archaeological Field Technician for our Albuquerque, New Mexico office. Field duties would also extend into Texas.

Be involved in projects with our New Mexico Team and be a part of a growing organization that meets our client's objectives and solves their challenges.

At WSP, we are driven by inspiring the right people to be part of our future-focused business objectives. Our devotion to teamwork has allowed us to build communities and expand our skylines. Here at WSP, anything is within our reach- and yours as a WSP employee. Come join us and help shape the future!

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Conduct cultural resources fieldwork, reporting, and mitigation in support of pre-construction project design and engineering.
• Help with all aspects of fieldwork, monitoring, data collection, inventory, analyses, and site form preparation.
• Demonstrated commitment to keeping up-to-date in knowledge of current cultural resources management and Section 106 regulations and planning practices.

Talent is the essence of meeting our client's objectives, goals and challenges. If this sounds like a fit for you, we'd love to have that first discussion of you joining our team.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 0 to 3 years of experience working in the cultural resource management industry.
• Knowledge of public and private sector requirements and practices for cultural resources surveys.
• Ability to travel out of the immediate Albuquerque area over 2-10 days at a time, particularly in the SE NM area.
• Ability to navigate and collect data using GPS equipment.
• Good organizational skills, multi-tasking capabilities and attention to detail.
• Competent interpersonal and communication skills when interacting with others and expressing ideas effectively and professionally to a technical and non-technical audience.
• Basic proficiency with business writing, office automation and communication software, technology, and tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in the New Mexico BLM CFO region.
• Familiarity with rules and regulations related to Section 106 of the Historic Preservation Act; and state and local environmental rules and regulations and related reporting requirements.
• Bachelor's Degree in Anthropology, Archaeology, Cultural Resources Management, or a related field (or equivalent experience meeting the Secretary of the Interior's standards).
• Demonstrated ability or progress toward being listed on federal and state cultural resource permits in New Mexico as Crew Chief.