Idaho National Laboratory is hiring an Architectural Historian to work in our Cultural Resource Management department. Our team works a 9x80 schedule located out of our Research Education Center with every other Friday off. You will manage historic properties, objects, and landscapes within the built environment of the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) in compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), along with preserving the historic record of the INL through oral history and heritage documentation. Also, the architectural historian will conduct frequent internal communication with a versatile team of archaeologists, architectural historians, archivists, environmental staff, scientists, engineers, and project managers. Furthermore, communication with external customers and partners in representing CRMO and solving complex project issues is required. Includes keeping up to date with current standard practices in field of study, employing the correct methods and techniques as applicable on a diversity of scope. Responsibilities Include: Key Responsibilities: - Conduct intensive and reconnaissance surveys in the built environment and prepare INL resource records and monitoring forms to support Section 106 reviews and Section 110 priorities. - Develop summary and technical documents detailing historic property evaluations methodology and analyses, results, interpretations, and compliance recommendations. - Implement NHPA as it pertains to the built environment and historic land use. Serves as a leader within CRMO on Environmental Review Process (ERP) reviews and major contributions to CDRLs. - Train partners on cultural resource awareness. Knowledge, Skills, Abilities: - Experience with laws, regulations, policies regarding the preservation and protection of cultural resources. - Produce cultural resource documents including cultural resource reports and effect determinations, resource records and eligibility recommendations for the historic built environment. - Proficient in maintaining project records, cultural resource files, and electronic databases. Maintain cultural resource geospatial databases. - Develop studies, plans, or proposals to locate and assess historic properties and to minimize or reduce impacts to historic properties resulting from undertakings. Working knowledge of memorandum of agreements and programmatic agreements to resolve adverse effects. - Contribute to National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) documentation through Categorical Exclusions (CEs), Environmental Assessments (EAs) or Environmental Impact Statements (EISs). Integrate Section 106 into the NEPA processes. - Lead and create goals for long term strategies regarding built environment resources, including but not limited to: EBR-I Preservation Plan, Built Environment Inventory Updates, Long term display opportunities with historic objects, Section 110 preservation issues. - Knowledge of HABS/HALS/HAER documentation methods, requirements, and practices. - Capable of conducting research and producing written contexts to document the cultural and scientific history of an area.
