דרושים Archaeologist Principal Investigator - Sacramento ב-Jacobs ב-United States, Sacramento

Jacobs is looking for a Principal Investigator to work on a variety of projects in Sacramento and throughout the United States.

This position involves providing desktop and field-based cultural resources support for planning, engineering, and construction services to

government, military, and commercial clients. The archaeologist career path provides the opportunity to work on projects that require compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), Archaeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA), National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Native American Graves Repatriation and Protection Act (NAGPRA), and other federal, state, and local cultural resource regulations.

Based out of Sacramento, you’ll serve as a key team member working with scientists, engineers, project managers, and other project staff across business sectors and practices in the company; interface with clients; and coordinate consultation with State Historic Preservation Officers, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, Native American tribes, and multiple state and federal agencies. You’ll conduct coordinate, and oversee archaeological fieldwork, including Phases I-III studies and archaeological monitoring; analyze project impacts as part of Section 106 and other regulations; analyze and interpret data; write and review cultural resources technical reports; develop archaeological treatment plans and agreement documents; and evaluate eligibility of resources for listing in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) and state registers. You will also prepare proposals, provide technical reviews of deliverables, provide technical guidance to junior and mid-level employees, and serve as a mentor within the cultural resources group.

Responsibilities:

· Create and maintain project plans — define activities, work breakdown structures, predecessors, successors, resources, and baselines

· Prepare business cases, contingency releases, and manage project budgets within established project governance rules

· Develop, monitor, and update cash flow projections

· Maintain portfolio with high volume of projects with short turn-around time

· Managing utility construction projects across client service territory in California

· Ensure project scope control and documentation is maintained

· Analyze and report on variances for project cost and schedule

· Create and maintain Excel spreadsheets for reporting and analysis

· Measure the progress of activities and milestones in project plans

· Lead meetings for project scoping, constructability review, design review, competitive bid, construction inspection, commissioning, and as-built incorporation.

· Negotiate and execute contracts, process change orders and report actual costs

· Drive consensus, communicate responsibilities, and ensure ownership and accountability

· Arbitrate and resolve conflicts within the project

· Manage change control, involving project sponsor and stakeholders

· Conduct design and drawing reviews on-site with various project stakeholders to identify and mitigate any issues and challenges identified during this process

· Prepare and present timely and actionable status updates

· Facilitate focused and cross-functional meetings and calls

· Draft and communicate meeting minutes, risk registers, decision logs and status reports

· Represent the client to government agencies and make presentations to senior management and stakeholders

· Work with various government entities in submitting and obtaining permit approvals

· Interact with customers concerning land rights

· Lead the project team in identifying, tracking, and mitigating risks, issues, and opportunities

· Escalate risks and issues in order to keep projects on schedule and on budget

· Identify and communicate lessons learned and incorporate into projects as best practices

Jacobs is seeking Staff Archaeologists to support a variety of projects in Northern California. This position provides cultural resources support for planning, engineering, and construction services to commercial clients. We offer flexible hours and benefits, and this position is available as either depending on candidate availability and organizational needs:

• part-time, on-call (without benefits), or
• part-time at 21+ hours per week (with benefits), or
• full-time (with benefits)

The archaeologist career path provides the opportunity to work on projects that require compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), Archaeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA), National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), and state regulations. All work will be conducted under the guidance of senior cultural resources staff.

Manages aspects of the Transmission Line Wildfire Mitigation Program (WMP) clearing dependencies for work execution. This includes working with various partners to ensure the environmental release-to-construction (ERTC), all required permits (i.e. Caltrans), Landing Zones, Laydown Yards, and job drawings are received. Works closely with a Project Controls Analyst, Work and Resource Planner, Construction Management, M&C Supervisors, and Construction Contractors to coordinate readiness for work over assigned Headquarters.

This position requires the ability to manage multiple tasks concurrently. Good written and verbal communication skills are required to facilitate meetings and forge partnerships with multiple stakeholders.

Job Responsibilities

• Conducts business in a safe and ethical manner in accordance with company standard practices
• Works with key stakeholders to develop an annual workplan
• Communicates execution risk, workplan changes, and issues to management and partners
• Escalates items as needed to ensure resources are utilized wisely
• Works with little guidance to complete assignments and solves problems of moderate scope and complexity
• Works with little guidance on moderately complex issues
• Works with support teams to obtain Caltrans, Railroad, City, and County encroachment permits
• Works with support teams to ensure all temporary construction easements for access, landing zones, and laydown yards are obtained
• Works with environmental teams to obtain the ERTC
• Works with engineering and estimating teams to ensure job drawings are complete
• Tracks portfolio of work and any remaining dependencies
• Communicates with peers, exchanging ideas and experiences