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About the Role

Join our Cultural Resources team as a Principal Investigator and dive into a steady stream of exciting in-house projects. Collaborate with a diverse team of professionals who share a passion for turning goals into reality. Strive for excellence and exemplify LCRA’s values of service, initiative, respect, integrity, and safety.

Responsibilities

• Manage full lifecycle complex projects from scoping and financial forecasting through field execution, detailed analysis, and reporting.
• Lead small field crews in archaeological survey across diverse regions of Texas (approx. 10% overnight travel).
• Collaborate with project managers, providing expertise and guidance on cultural resources regulatory laws and processes.
• Coordinate and consult with key regulatory agencies, including SHPO, U.S.A.C.E., FCC, FEMA, and others.
• Provide oversight for comprehensive archaeological surveys and excavations executed by external cultural resource management (CRM) contractors.

Requirements

• Master's degree in anthropology, archaeology or relevant field plus four or more years of relevant experience in archaeology.
• Driver's license.

Skills

• Professional cultural resources management
• Leading field crews
• Texas archaeology
• Antiquities Code of Texas
• Antiquities permits in Texas
• Authoring technical reports with SHPO concurrence

Location

• Texas

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Principal Investigator
• 5+ years of experience within professional cultural resources management
• 1+ years leading field crews
• 2+ years of experience in Texas archaeology

Education Level

• Master's degree in anthropology, archaeology or relevant field

Benefits

• Healthcare
• Wellness
• Time off

About the Company

• LCRA’s Cultural Resources group ensures the agency’s compliance with state and federal cultural resource laws for hundreds of projects annually throughout central, western, southeastern, and southern Texas.
• We also serve as stewards for over 500 recorded archaeological sites located in our 11,000+ acres of parkland along the Colorado River in the Highland Lakes region of Central Texas.

Equal Opportunity

• LCRA provides equal employment opportunities and a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.
• All employment decisions at LCRA are based on business need, job requirement and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information, or veteran status in accordance with applicable federal and state legal requirements governing nondiscrimination in employment.
• LCRA is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities.
• Applicants with a disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process can contact LCRA Human Resources (512) 578-4004 or email lcra.benefits@lcra.org.
• Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.