# On Call Experienced Archaeologist

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Tempe, AZ
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Salary**: $31-$47 per hour
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are seeking an On Call Experienced Archaeologist to join our Earth & Environment Cultural Resource Team. As an On Call Archaeology Field Technician with 3+ years of experience, you will work on project-based positions, primarily in Arizona and New Mexico, with opportunities in adjacent states.

Responsibilities:

- Conduct Class I-Class III assessments and provide avoidance recommendations

- Participate in heritage/cultural resource investigations, ensuring compliance with NEPA, NHPA, NAGPRA, and other federal, state, and local laws and regulations

- Travel to project sites in Arizona and New Mexico, with per diem provided

Requirements:

- BA/BS degree in Archaeology, Anthropology, History, or a related field (MS/MA preferred)

- 3-5 years of professional-level experience in archaeological and historic preservation planning, staffing, and resource management

- Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills

- Working knowledge of cultural resources and environmental regulations, North American archaeology, and relevant laws (NHPA, ARPA, NAGPRA)

- Experience with SharePoint, Microsoft, and digital data collection software and hardware

- Ability to perform pedestrian surveys, carry up to 25 lbs of gear and equipment, and work in hot and dry high-desert conditions

- Willingness to travel to remote project locations for 10-day rotations and possibly camp

Preferred Qualifications:

- Previous work experience in the western US

- Large-scale terrestrial survey project experience

- Great Basin and/or Southwestern-specific fieldwork experience

Benefits:

- Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance

- Retirement savings

- Paid sick leave, vacation, parental leave, and time off for bereavement, voting, and naturalization proceedings

Compensation:

- $31-$47 per hour

## Skills

### Required
- Archaeology
- Anthropology
- History
- NEPA
- NHPA
- NAGPRA
- SharePoint
- Microsoft

### Nice to have
- Great Basin
- Southwestern
- large-scale terrestrial survey

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