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Jacobs Early Career Architectural Historian, Hybrid- West or Midwest in St Paul, Minnesota
Your Impact:
At Jacobs, you’ll work for a company that strives to provide opportunities for employees to learn, grow and thrive. As an architectural historian, you’ll work on a variety of projects throughout the United States. This position involves providing cultural resources support for planning, engineering, and construction services to water, Department of Defense, federal civilian, and other government and commercial clients. The architectural historian career path provides the opportunity to work on projects that require compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and other federal, state, and local cultural resource regulations.
In this hybrid position, you will work a nationwide team of cultural resources professionals. You will conduct desktop reviews and background research; evaluate buildings, structures, objects, landscapes and districts for eligibility for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as well as for state and local registers; and provide analysis and cultural resources content for NEPA documents and cultural resources technical reports. For this position, you’ll serve as a key team member working with scientists, engineers, project managers, GIS staff, and other project staff across business sectors and practices in the company. You’ll also review undertakings for potential impacts to historic properties; coordinate consultation with State Historic Preservation Officers (SHPO), Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, Native American tribes, and multiple state and federal agencies; delineate areas of potential effects; complete primary and secondary source research and develop historic contexts; identify periods of significance and character-defining features; complete architectural surveys and site forms; and prepare NEPA and NHPA technical reports.
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Master’s degree in Architectural History, Historic Preservation, Public History, Architecture, or a related field.
One to five years of professional experience in historic preservation or a related field.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite.
Oral and written English communication skills.
Must be willing and able to travel nationwide, as needed.
Experience conducting research and literature reviews and developing historic contexts and NRHP eligibility determinations.
Working knowledge of GIS and basic understanding of cultural resources mapping and data collection, such as ArcGIS Field Maps and Google Earth.
Ideally, You’ll Also Have:
Familiarity with the NHPA Section 106 consultation process.
Experience working in the consulting environment, able to handle multiple projects simultaneously and be responsive to both internal and external clients.
Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record documentation experience.
Effects assessment experience.
Architectural field survey experience.
Experience working with Class I Railroads (e.g., Amtrak and Union Pacific Railroad), state departments of transportation, the Department of Defense, and/or the U.S. General Services Administration.
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