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About the Role
This newly created Consultant Archaeologist position will help deliver Heritage (predominantly Aboriginal) projects across Australia, working on significant projects within renewable energy, transmission infrastructure, transport, water, social infrastructure, and Defence sectors. It offers an excellent opportunity to establish or advance your career in a supportive and collaborative environment, contributing to complex projects while balancing client management, business development, and regulatory adherence.
Responsibilities
- Prepare and contribute to high-quality technical reports including Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Assessments, Due Diligence Assessments, Heritage Impact Assessments and Excavation Reports.
- Support consultation and engagement with Aboriginal stakeholders, including Registered Aboriginal Parties, Local Aboriginal Land Councils and community representatives.
- Present technical findings and relay information to non-technical persons, including clients and community.
- Participate in archaeological field surveys, test excavations, and salvage operations across various NSW landscapes.
- Contribute to the preparation of proposals, value propositions, and presentations to clients.
- Assist with project management activities including scope delivery, scheduling, budgeting and coordination of field programs.
- Collaborate with planners, ecologists, environmental scientists and engineers to integrate heritage outcomes into broader project delivery.
- Maintain an in-depth knowledge of heritage and archaeological legislation, regulations, and guidelines, and apply this knowledge to assess significance, develop conservation strategies, and mitigate impacts on heritage and archaeological values.
Requirements
- Experience in Aboriginal cultural heritage and archaeology within Australia.
- Experience in Aboriginal community consultation processes in accordance with NSW heritage requirements.
- Sound knowledge of using GIS software (ArcGIS Pro or QGIS) for mapping, field data management and heritage assessments.
- Ability to work on site, away from home and in remote locations, if necessary.
- Hold an Australian Drivers licence (ideally with 4WD experience).
Skills
- Aboriginal archaeology
- Aboriginal cultural heritage assessment
- Archaeology
- GIS software (ArcGIS Pro or QGIS)
- Project management
- Client management
- Business development
- Regulatory frameworks
- Technical reporting
- Stakeholder engagement
- Archaeological field surveys
- Test excavations
- Salvage operations
- Proposal preparation
- Value propositions
- Presentations
- Scope delivery
- Scheduling
- Budgeting
- Coordination of field programs
- Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams
- Heritage legislation
- Archaeological legislation
- Regulations
- Guidelines
- Significance assessment
- Conservation strategies
- Impact mitigation
- NSW heritage requirements
- AHIP processes
- NSW Code of Practice for Archaeological Investigation of Aboriginal Objects in NSW
- Aboriginal artefact analysis
Location
- Australia
Work Type
- Consulting
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Intermediate-level
- Young professional
Education Level
- Bachelor (Honours) or Master’s degree in Archaeology
Benefits
- Flexible working options
- Dedicated leave for wellbeing and community engagement
- Shareholder opportunities
- Up to 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave (inclusive of all genders)
- Continuous learning and professional development
- Company training programmes
- Support for professional accreditation
- Pathways to Chartership with Engineers Australia
About the Company
- Beca’s Planning & Environment team helps clients design and deliver projects that create lasting environmental, social and community value.
- We integrate planning, approvals, environmental assessment, ecology, heritage, sustainability and environmental management expertise to guide projects from concept to consent and beyond.
- Our teams support major initiatives across energy transition, water security, transport and social infrastructure, manufacturing, and Defence right across Australia and the Pacific.
- Beca is one of the Asia-Pacific region's largest employee-owned professional services consultancies.
- Our team of over 4000 professionals is diverse enough to bring a wide range of perspectives and expertise to every client and challenge, creating resourceful, smart solutions from our collective experience and insights.
- ‘Creative people together transforming our world’ is our vision.
- Our four values – partnership, tenacity, enjoyment and care – sit at the heart of everything we do, reflecting how we work every day with each other and our clients.
- At Beca we make everyday better for our clients, our people and our community and your involvement makes it possible.
- Our size and agility mean you’re not just on the fringes; you’re making a visible difference, partnering to develop and deliver solutions from the ground up.
- As a people-focused business, we understand that work-life balance means a lot of different things to different people and that it’s not always easy juggling work with everything else life throws at us.
- This is why we are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements for all opportunities in the Beca team.
Equal Opportunity
- Beca prides itself on supporting a diverse and inclusive culture – open to inputs from creative people of all genders, ethnicity, identity, thought and experiences.