# Senior Archaeologist

**Company**: WSP
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $110,600 – $146,500
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

As a Senior Archaeologist at WSP, you will lead multi-phase archaeological programs, shape technical strategies, and contribute to culturally responsible project delivery across complex infrastructure and environmental initiatives.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Directing and overseeing archaeological assessments requirements aligned with the Ontario Heritage Act & Ministry of Citizenship and Multiculturalism (MCM)

- Building and maintaining meaningful relationships with Indigenous Nations and community partners

- Providing expert guidance to clients on archaeological processes and constraints, Indigenous engagement, permitting, and risk management

- Supporting business development through leading technical approaches and cultivating strong client relationships

- Independently delivering quality work in a deadline-driven environment

- Mentoring archaeological team members and providing senior technical review of deliverables

- Promoting health, safety, and security in projects and teams

- Applying innovative technologies to elevate project outcomes

To be successful in this role, you will need:

- A professional or research license to conduct archaeological fieldwork in Ontario

- A degree in archaeology, anthropology, or a related discipline

- 15+ years of archaeological experience with demonstrated leadership in complex, multi-phase field programs

- Deep understanding of CRM business, permitting pathways, Indigenous engagement practices, and heritage stewardship

- Expert understanding of relevant provincial and federal legislative frameworks

- Experience designing scope and budget for archaeological projects of all sizes and complexities

- Experience in providing quality control of client deliverables and providing constructive feedback to staff

- Strong understanding of project financial management

- Ability to direct technical and safety training and instructions

- Ability to obtain Provincial and Federal Security Clearance

- Valid driver's license with satisfactory driving record

Preferred qualifications include:

- Expert knowledge of Ontario historical period and/or Indigenous material culture

- Understanding of requirements for archaeology on federal lands

- Membership with the Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals (CAHP)

In terms of compensation, the salary range for this position is:

- AB, BC, NT, NU, SK & YT: $110,600 – $146,500

- MB & ON: $100,900 – $139,000

- NB, NL, NS, PEI & QC: $99,900 – $132,700

## Skills

### Required
- archaeology
- anthropology
- CRM business
- Indigenous engagement practices
- heritage stewardship
- project financial management
- safety training

### Nice to have
- Ontario historical period
- Indigenous material culture
- federal lands archaeology
- Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals (CAHP)

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