Senior or Principal Geoarchaeology Consultant

Stantec UK is looking for a highly experiencedgeoarchaeologist to join the team at Senior or Principal grade inany of our UK offices, but with a preference for Reading. The postholder will provide technical advice, implement fieldinvestigations with internal and subcontracted colleagues, deliverand technically assure complex reports, and focus on our majorwater, highways, and infrastructure clients. This is an excitingopportunity to join a global sustainable engineering, architecture,and environmental consultancy. You will work within professional,collaborative and multi-disciplinary teams to deliver world-classsolutions for our clients and the communities around us. You willundertake and be part of the provision of high-qualityarchaeological science and geoarchaeological consultancy advice anddelivery for small through to nationally significant schemes andwill work closely with the wider Stantec Archaeology and Heritageteam to identify risks and opportunities for our portfolio ofprojects. As a Senior or Principal Geoarchaeology Consultant, youwill provide advice, risk analysis and research for a range ofschemes, including permitted development and those requiringplanning consent, EIA and/or DCO. You will provide advice toclients as well as internal colleagues. You will prepare andcontribute towards a range of technical documents, includingScreenings, Technical Advice Notes, Historic Environment Desk BasedAssessments, Geoarchaeological Desk-based Assessments, EvaluationReports, and Environmental Impact Assessments. This will involve areview of BGS and GI borehole data, geophysical survey and otherdigital data sets and grey literature; preparation of figures; sitewalkovers and archive visits; review of aerial photographs andLiDAR; geoarchaeology watching briefs on GI works, evaluationplanning and implementation and report writing. You will liaiseclosely with local authorities, Historic England and otherstakeholders to discuss and agree on geoarchaeological evaluationand mitigation strategies, undertake the subsequent management ofarchaeological fieldwork carried out by internal colleagues and/orsubcontractors and co-ordinate paleoenvironmental assessment andanalysis inputs. About You You will be a highly motivatedindividual with a passion for and sound multi-period knowledge ofUK archaeological science and all relevant legislation, planningpolicy and guidance. You will also have: - professional consultancyexperience with excellent report writing skills and preferably GISexperience - experience of geoarchaeological fieldwork - membershipof CIfA at Associate level (or above) - Full clean UK driver’slicence About Stantec The Stantec community unites more than 31,000employees working in over 450 locations across 6 continents. Wehave been working with our clients and communities in the UK forover 150 years. We plan, design, deliver and manage the developmentand infrastructure needed to support the creation of sustainable,healthy and prosperous communities. Our teams provide effective andrelevant solutions, translating our clients’ vision into valuedconsents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, andefficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence anddeep market insights. We deal with today’s challenges, but alsokeep a fairer, better tomorrow in sight, looking at how we deliverclean growth, support radical changes in our economy and meet theneeds of future communities. #J-18808-Ljbffr