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🔗Architectural Historian

Website Swift River / Tumeq
Swift River is a subsidiary of Tumeq. An Alaska Native Corporation (ANC) subsidiary and U.S. SBA 8(a) Certified Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB). We provide environmental permitting assistance, site characterization, compliance, monitoring, reporting, engineering design, construction QC, and remediation support services to a broad spectrum of clients. Our corporate office is in Anchorage, Alaska and our primary operations office is in Colorado. We have project offices in Norfolk, Virginia; Albuquerque, New Mexico; with dedicated personnel at Cannon AFB, Holloman AFB, and Fort Huachuca.
Swift River Environmental Services is seeking a qualified Architectural Historian or a Historic Architect with significant building experience to provide architectural management support for the Cultural Resources Management Program, under the direction of the Government Cultural Resources Manager (CRM). This support will be focused on the management of historic buildings and historic districts. Significant experience with conducting architectural documentation and consultation is necessary. Training and mentoring will be limited but will be available for the right candidate.
Architectural Resource Identification, Evaluation, and Documentation:
· Conducting archival research and fieldwork to inventory, evaluate, and document historic buildings and structures, and conduct building condition assessments.
· Preparing post-fieldwork documentation, including professional quality survey and assessment reports with project results, and building evaluations; State of Arizona Historic Property Inventory forms; photographic documentation; and field records.
· Drafting correspondence for consultation with the State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO) regarding determinations of effect and eligibility.
· Updating existing building databases and archive files to facilitate access to documentation on historic buildings and districts. This includes updating and maintaining data in the Fort Huachuca (FH) GIS system.
This individual will also assist the Cultural Resource Manager with project review and technical advice regarding potential impacts to historic properties, assist in development of Scopes of Work (SOWs) for inventory, evaluation, and mitigation projects, develop materials for education, interpretation, and outreach to promote historic preservation, and assist in completing the backlog of cultural resource projects.