Project Archaeologist

General Responsibilities:

Are you ready to take the next step in your archaeological career?

Terracon is seeking an experienced Project Archaeologist to help expand our cultural resources practice in Lenexa, Kansas. This is a unique opportunity to join an established and respected environmental planning team while building and leading your own local cultural resources group.

As a 100% employee-owned company, Terracon gives you the opportunity to share in the success you help create. You'll work alongside industry-leading professionals in a collaborative environment that values safety, technical excellence, innovation, and professional development. Whether your passion is technical leadership, team development, project management, or client engagement, Terracon provides the resources and support to help you grow your career.

As a Project Archaeologist, you will provide technical leadership, project management, and team development for a variety of cultural resource projects throughout the central United States, with a primary emphasis on Missouri and Kansas.

Why Join Terracon?

• Employee Ownership: As an employee-owner, your contributions directly impact the success of the company and your future.
• Safety-First Culture: Safety is a core value embedded in everything we do, with a strong focus on planning, training, and protecting our people.
• Career Growth & Leadership Opportunities: Build and mentor a local archaeological team while working with a national network of cultural resources professionals.
• Collaborative Expertise: Partner with archaeologists, historians, environmental scientists, and engineers on diverse and impactful projects.

Essential roles and responsibilities

• Champion Terracon's safety culture by promoting safe work practices, participating in pre-task planning, and proactively addressing safety concerns.
• Deliver high-quality archaeological investigations that meet regulatory requirements and exceed client expectations.
• Develop proposals, research designs, scopes of work, and project methodologies.
• Manage multiple projects, budgets, schedules, and client relationships.
• Design, direct, and report on cultural resources surveys; includes development of survey methodology, execution of fieldwork, in-field assessments, analysis, reporting, NRHP evaluations, and possible mitigation efforts.
• Conduct independent archival, documentary, and historical research.
• Coordinate cultural resources compliance efforts with clients, regulatory agencies, and internal project teams.
• Support business development initiatives and help expand Terracon's cultural resources practice.

Required

• Meet Secretary of the Interior (SOI) qualifications as a Principal Investigator.
• Master's degree in Anthropology or a closely related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible cultural resources experience, including at least 1 year serving as a Principal Investigator and/or Project Archaeologist.
• Experience working within a professional cultural resources, engineering, environmental consulting, or government agency setting.
• Strong knowledge of Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams, manage priorities, and successfully deliver projects.
• Ability to pass a drug screening.
• Valid U.S. driver's license with an acceptable driving record.

Preferred:

• Principal Investigator experience in Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, and/or Arkansas.
• Proven success developing proposals and pursuing large state or federal contracts.
• Experience supervising and mentoring archaeological staff.
• Registered Professional Archaeologist (RPA) designation or ability to obtain RPA status.