Archaeologist

EBI • Chicago, IL

11d • $60,000 - $75,000 • Remote

About The Position

At EBI we’re committed to providing deep technical, industry and commercial real estate expertise to help our clients navigate complexity and realize maximum value for their assets. For 35 years we’ve been helping investors, lenders, owners, developers, contractors, and property managers mitigate risk and optimize their built facilities for maximum economic, safety, and environmental value. We’re unique in our ability to deliver high quality, responsive services across the entire asset lifecycle, from rapid assessments, to advisory, to implementation and verification services, nationwide. Unlike other environmental consulting firms, we provide the full suite of commercial real estate and asset management services through to improvement and verification. Our experts leverage our proprietary assessment methodologies, benchmarking, regulation, and analytics tools across six core domains. EBI is your environmental, sustainability, engineering and health and safety partner, nationwide. Assess. Advise. Improve. Verify. Position Summary EBI Consulting is seeking a full-time Archaeologist responsible for completing file reviews/background research, conducting field surveys and fieldwork, authoring reports, and completing Federal Communications Commission Forms 620 and 621, as needed. The successful candidate will have demonstrated capability to write technical reports at all levels of complexity. This position may be trained to complete Phase I Environmental Site Assessments and NEPA tasks. The position will report directly to the National Technical Director and will be a fully remote, work from home position. The majority of clients this position will support will be located in or around Chicago so candidates will need to already be established in this market. This is a field-based position, with upwards of 40% local and regional travel expected. Candidates must have previous experience with travel and be comfortable with this model to be considered.

Requirements

• Master’s Degree in Anthropology or Archaeology required
• Must meet the state Principal Investigator requirements and/or have a minimum of two years’ full-time experience in the region in research, writing, teaching, interpretation, or other demonstrable professional activity with an academic institution, historic organization or agency, museum, or other professional institution
• Must be Secretary of the Interior Qualified by meeting the archaeological qualifications described in the Secretary of Interior’s Professional Guidelines (Federal Register 48:190:44738-44739) (United States Department of the Interior 1983)

Nice To Haves

• Register of Professional Archaeologists preferred

Responsibilities

• Completing Class I Surveys—background research for proposed projects including: map, aerial, and literature reviews and reviewing SHPO databases for known archaeological sites and surveys
• Conducting Class III Surveys/Phase 1A & Phase 1B surveys—visiting the proposed Project Site and conducting a pedestrian survey and/or systematic subsurface testing
• Recording archaeological sites, and completing relevant site forms and determinations of eligibility
• Archaeological Monitoring of construction
• Authoring technical reports, including Class III reports and desk based analyses

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level