Archaeological Technician

Stantec

Posted 2 months ago

Full Time

Topsham, Maine

Hybrid

Smart Summary

Responsibilities

The archaeological technician will perform field tasks such as controlled surface surveys, shovel testing, and excavation under supervisor guidance. Responsibilities also include cleaning, cataloging, and labeling artifacts recovered during fieldwork.

Qualifications

We are looking for Archaeological Field Technicians to assist with fieldwork primarily in Maine and New York. Key responsibilities include performing archaeological fieldwork tasks such as controlled surface survey, shovel test survey, and excavation. This position requires extensive travel with frequent overnight stays.

Job Description

Your Opportunity

Stantec's Cultural Resources team has an opportunity for on-call archaeological field technicians to support field projects throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. Stantec is seeking Archaeological Field Technicians to assist with upcoming fieldwork that will occur primarily in Maine and New York. The successful applicant will be responsible for executing field related tasks under the supervision of an archaeological field supervisor. This position requires extensive travel with frequent overnight stays.

Your Key Responsibilities

  • The position will primarily consist of fieldwork but may include exposure to a wider range of other duties including laboratory research and analysis. Responsibilities may include but are not limited to: perform archaeological fieldwork tasks including controlled surface survey; shovel test survey; and excavation. Duties may also include cleaning, cataloging, photographing, and labeling artifacts recovered from surface collection and excavation.

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Stantec

Stantec provides professional design and consulting services in planning, engineering, architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, surveying, and project management. At Stantec, we offer integrated service delivery. We are one of the few industry leaders that can offer professional services throughout the entire infrastructure and facility life cycle: plan, design, build, monitor, assess, restore, and decommission. Continually striving to balance economic, environmental, and social responsibilities, we are recognized as a world-class leader and innovator in the delivery of sustainable solutions. Stantec supports the delivery of a continuous learning program focused on the principles of sustainable design, for the benefit of personnel, clients, and our community, following through on our goal to make our world a better place. A commitment to continuous learning and the understanding of sustainable design practices is key to Stantec's promise of environmental, social and economic sustainability. Stantec is registered with, and carries out projects funded by all the major International Funding Institutions. Projects are also carried out for private sector clients including utility and large multi-national companies. In 1954, Dr. Don Stanley, an environmental engineer, founded Stanley Associates Engineering Ltd. in Western Canada. Sixty years later, Stantec Consulting Ltd. has grown to encompass over 200 offices in North America and worldwide. The Stantec team of over 15,000 employees has completed more than 60,000 projects for over 6,000 clients in over 100 countries around the world. Our staff have successfully completed projects on six continents from Australia to Zambia for public and private sector clients. Stantec began working internationally in 1967 on a sewerage system in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and has continued to do so for last 45 years. Stantec Consulting International Ltd. (SCIL) provides the specialized professional consulting services of Stantec to international funding agencies and clients in the government, institutional, industrial and commercial sectors. Corporate headquarters are located in the Stantec Centre in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Additional international offices are located in Barbados; Puerto Rico; Qatar; the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates; the United Kingdom; and India. Project offices are located around the world specific to on-going projects.
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