Architectural Historian I
Location
Auburn, WA | United States
Job description
Who We Are
Dudek is a leading environmental, planning, and engineering firm that helps public and private clients achieve compliance, practicality, and innovation through our project work. Founded in 1980, Dudek has grown steadily to more than 800 professionals across the U.S. and received the Top Workplace Award for 2024.
As a 100% employee-owned company, Dudek’s culture rewards smart, productive team members with ownership, professional development, and financial benefits. Our work communities are designed to encourage collaboration, sustainability, and connectivity with the surrounding communities.
We invest in our Employees and communities through various initiatives that make Dudek a great place to work! Dudek makes it a priority to DuGood by giving back to the communities in which we live and work, and offer Dudekians the opportunity to take a paid volunteer day each year. Our experts are encouraged to eDUcate school groups about planning, engineering, and preserving the natural and built environments. We promote environmental sustainability through our DuGreen initiative by working to improve our environmental footprint. We also DuWell to educate our associates on their health and wellness. And our Du Something Fun team brings everyone at Dudek together to balance our hard work with exciting activities.
At Dudek, we understand the best problem solving happens when diverse viewpoints and experiences are shared. We recognize that different perspectives, inclusivity, and trust build a stronger culture and add value to our firm. We celebrate our differences and strive to make meaningful progress toward becoming a more diverse company.
About The Job
Dudek is seeking an early to mid-level Architectural Historian to work as part of a team of cultural resources specialists (i.e., architectural historians, and archaeologists) to assist with historic resource surveys, evaluations, and related technical documents in compliance with CEQA, NEPA, and Section 106 of the NHPA. The ideal candidate has excellent oral and written communication skills. Competitive wages are based on the level of education and experience.
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Who You Are
To thrive at Dudek, you should be comfortable with freedom and accountability. We value collaborative, resourceful, and independent thinkers. We look for curious, solution-focused people who are able to adapt quickly to an ever-changing industry. There is no single way to solve a problem, so we support your creative approaches to solve problems.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Research and write historic context statements.
- Evaluate properties in accordance with local, state, and national criteria and integrity requirements on State of California DPR forms.
- Assess impacts and effects on historical resources/properties and prepare defensible compliance documentation for CEQA and Section 106
- Promote a culture of teamwork, engagement, quality service, and customer satisfaction for our clients.
- Assist in fostering client connections through existing client relationships and proactive business development in the candidate’s areas of strength and interest, working with others to anticipate and pursue work.
- Enhance Dudek’s professional reputation and demonstrate the ability to be creative and innovative with work tasks while representing Dudek in a professional manner.
- Work with project team members to track commitments to support a variety of projects.
- Incorporate and respond to feedback on work products in a professional manner.
- Able to perform a task and add the knowledge from completing that task as a skill. The skill is then acquired to the extent that the next time the task is requested or assigned, it requires only minimal supervision, instruction, or guidance.
- Able to perform basic fieldwork alone or with other architectural historians and/or archaeologists.
- Able to build on the knowledge and acquire skills to complete historic context writing and technical report writing tasks with minimal instruction or supervision. Comfortable interacting with clients and project managers.
- Able to work within fixed budgets and produce deliverables within project schedules and task timelines.
- Able to navigate, coordinate, and conduct online research through various platforms and databases, as well as in-person research at libraries and archival facilities.
- Able to work cooperatively in a team-oriented setting.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the history/architectural history of California.
Minimum Requirements
- Masters’ degree in History, Architectural History, Historic Preservation, or a related field. In progress is acceptable.
- Meets or in process of meeting the Secretary of the Interiors Professional Qualification Standards for architectural history.
- Professional experience as a consultant in the discipline of architectural history/historic preservation
- Must demonstrate strong writing and solid written and verbal communication skills.
- Highly organized with the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
- Must have a valid driver’s license and reliable transportation.
- Must be proficient in MS Office, in particular Word and Excel.
- Self-motivated with an interest in learning and growing as a project team.
- Deals with confidential information and/or issues using discretion and judgment (If applicable).
- Must possess a valid driver’s license and have active personal automobile liability insurance by first day of employment
* As a federal contractor, successful candidates are required to pass the following pre-employment requirements prior to beginning employment: pre - employment drug test and background check.
Preferred Qualifications
- Between 1 to 3 years of professional experience in architectural history, historic preservation, and regulatory compliance in California.
Working Conditions
- This job requires the management of deadlines
- This job may occasionally require working with demanding clients (internal and external).
- This job may require conducting field surveys in challenging terrain and/or weather conditions.
- This job operates in a remote or office-based environment, and this role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, printers, etc.
Physical Requirements
- This job operates in a remote or office-based environment and this role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, printers, etc.
- Will occasionally require fieldwork that includes workdays over 8 hours long, extensive walking, and sometimes challenging terrain.
- Willingness to come into the Dudek Sacramento office as necessary.
- This job requires occasional project site visits-based outdoors which can include excessive noise, uneven walking surfaces, extreme weather, moving vehicles and equipment.
Physical Requirements: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met in order to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. - This job requires working on a computer, sitting or standing for long periods of time in an office or remote office setting.
- This job requires attending meetings, both in person and virtually as well as speaking on the phone with peers, clients, etc. Speaking, hearing and listening are required.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Proposed Salary Range: $28.00-$35.00 hourly*
*Final agreed upon compensation will be based on a variety of factors including but not limited to an individual’s related experience, education, certifications, skills, and work location.
Perks of Being a Dudekian
Not only will Dudek provide you with a competitive salary, but we also strive to create an environment that promotes growth, career development, and a flexible work – life balance. Dudek offers an array of benefits, from your typical medical, dental, and vision coverage to the opportunity to share in Dudek’s success through discretionary bonuses, based on firmwide, divisional, and individual performance. We also offer a yearly merit review, an employee stock ownership program, and dog friendly offices! Since we encourage our colleagues to take time off when needed, Dudek also provides a generous vacation package. If you’re tired of an overly structured environment and decision-making process to get your job done, Dudek is a place where your ideas are heard and your initiative is rewarded. Speak with your recruiter to learn more about the great perks of being a Dudekian.
Dudek is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by applicable law.
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