Senior Archaeologist
Top Benefits
About the role
Senior Archaeologist
Whitehorse, YT
Grounded in safety, quality, and ethics, our experts lead their fields with dedication, a creative spirit, and a vision for growth. We draw from more than 20 technical specialties worldwide and are devoted to fostering a community of diverse talents, backgrounds, and expertise. Here, you can apply your passion and collaborate with top environmental professionals on work that’s vital to our clients and the communities they serve.
Join a team that’s naturally committed to the environment.
Your Opportunity
We are looking to expand our archaeology team and are seeking a full time Archaeologist to lead field programs. Work will focus on projects across various service lines in the Yukon, with opportunities to contribute to projects in British Columbia.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Lead cultural resource management assessments
- Prepare technical reports
- Actively participate in Stantec’s HSSE programs
Your Capabilities and Credentials
- Experience leading field-based cultural resource management assessments, including supervising staff
- Experience identifying traditional use sites and features, CMTs and precontact and historical artifacts
- Ability to hold a Class 2 Yukon Archaeological Site Regulation permit, or possess the required experience to become a permit holder in the near future
- Dedicated to following and promoting a strong safety culture
- Desire to work closely with other environmental professionals and First Nations
- Excellent technical writing skills and experience in cultural resource management, including the preparation of regulatory deliverables
- Self-motivated and ability to solve complex problems using sound professional judgment, creativity and innovation
- Valid Class 5 Driver’s License (Yukon), or equivalent
Education and Experience
A Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology or Archaeology is required. A Master’s degree is an asset.
Minimum 5 years of experience in Cultural Resource Management. Experience in the Yukon is an asset.
Experience working in remote locations is an asset.
Typical office environment working with computers and remaining sedentary for long periods of time. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather. Ability to lift and move items and equipment up to 50 lbs.
This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.
About Stantec
Stantec is a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. The diverse perspectives of our partners and interested parties drive us to think beyond what’s previously been done on critical issues like climate change, digital transformation, and future-proofing our cities and infrastructure. We innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible.
About Stantec
Stantec empowers clients, people, and communities to rise to the world’s greatest challenges at a time when the world faces more unprecedented concerns than ever before.
We are a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. Our professionals deliver the expertise, technology, and innovation communities need to manage aging infrastructure, demographic and population changes, the energy transition, and more.
Today’s communities transcend geographic borders. At Stantec, community means everyone with an interest in the work that we do—from our project teams and industry colleagues to our clients and the people our work impacts. The diverse perspectives of our partners and interested parties drive us to think beyond what’s previously been done on critical issues like climate change, digital transformation, and future-proofing our cities and infrastructure.
We are designers, engineers, scientists, project managers, and strategic advisors. We innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible.
Stantec trades on the TSX and the NYSE under the symbol STN.
Senior Archaeologist
Top Benefits
About the role
Senior Archaeologist
Whitehorse, YT
Grounded in safety, quality, and ethics, our experts lead their fields with dedication, a creative spirit, and a vision for growth. We draw from more than 20 technical specialties worldwide and are devoted to fostering a community of diverse talents, backgrounds, and expertise. Here, you can apply your passion and collaborate with top environmental professionals on work that’s vital to our clients and the communities they serve.
Join a team that’s naturally committed to the environment.
Your Opportunity
We are looking to expand our archaeology team and are seeking a full time Archaeologist to lead field programs. Work will focus on projects across various service lines in the Yukon, with opportunities to contribute to projects in British Columbia.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Lead cultural resource management assessments
- Prepare technical reports
- Actively participate in Stantec’s HSSE programs
Your Capabilities and Credentials
- Experience leading field-based cultural resource management assessments, including supervising staff
- Experience identifying traditional use sites and features, CMTs and precontact and historical artifacts
- Ability to hold a Class 2 Yukon Archaeological Site Regulation permit, or possess the required experience to become a permit holder in the near future
- Dedicated to following and promoting a strong safety culture
- Desire to work closely with other environmental professionals and First Nations
- Excellent technical writing skills and experience in cultural resource management, including the preparation of regulatory deliverables
- Self-motivated and ability to solve complex problems using sound professional judgment, creativity and innovation
- Valid Class 5 Driver’s License (Yukon), or equivalent
Education and Experience
A Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology or Archaeology is required. A Master’s degree is an asset.
Minimum 5 years of experience in Cultural Resource Management. Experience in the Yukon is an asset.
Experience working in remote locations is an asset.
Typical office environment working with computers and remaining sedentary for long periods of time. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather. Ability to lift and move items and equipment up to 50 lbs.
This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.
About Stantec
Stantec is a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. The diverse perspectives of our partners and interested parties drive us to think beyond what’s previously been done on critical issues like climate change, digital transformation, and future-proofing our cities and infrastructure. We innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible.
About Stantec
Stantec empowers clients, people, and communities to rise to the world’s greatest challenges at a time when the world faces more unprecedented concerns than ever before.
We are a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. Our professionals deliver the expertise, technology, and innovation communities need to manage aging infrastructure, demographic and population changes, the energy transition, and more.
Today’s communities transcend geographic borders. At Stantec, community means everyone with an interest in the work that we do—from our project teams and industry colleagues to our clients and the people our work impacts. The diverse perspectives of our partners and interested parties drive us to think beyond what’s previously been done on critical issues like climate change, digital transformation, and future-proofing our cities and infrastructure.
We are designers, engineers, scientists, project managers, and strategic advisors. We innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible.
Stantec trades on the TSX and the NYSE under the symbol STN.