Cultural Heritage Specialist
Cultural Heritage Specialist
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Job Description
AECOM is seeking a Cultural Heritage Specialist to join our growing team on a casual oncall basis. Our expertise includes managing large complex projects involving multiple stakeholder communities and various levels of jurisdiction. Our core team specializes in built heritage and cultural heritage landscape conservation planning and management particularly in the context of environmental assessments and landuse planning and development activities. We focus on infrastructure projects and have extensive experience supporting all phases of the development processplanning design construction and operations.
This role offers hybrid flexibility and will be based out of one of our Ontario offices: London Barrie Richmond Hill Kitchener Sudbury Ottawa North Bay Hamilton Mississauga or Markham.
We are looking for a passionate and skilled Junior Cultural Heritage Specialist to help preserve and maintain cultural heritage assets while ensuring their longterm sustainability. As a key member of our team you will collaborate with architects historians and conservation professionals to protect and enhance our cultural heritage.
Principal Responsibilities:
You will support the Cultural Heritage team with a variety of tasks including but not limited to:
- Preparing detailed documentation of heritage resources including land use histories and historic property research.
- Collaborating with team members to prepare heritage and planning documents such as Cultural Heritage Assessment Reports Cultural Heritage Evaluation Reports Heritage Impact Assessment Reports Documentation and Salvage Reports conservation plans and other documents required for planning applications and heritagerelated projects.
- Evaluating heritage resources using the criteria outlined in Ontario Regulation 9/06 and Ontario Regulation 10/06.
- Drafting Statements of Cultural Heritage Value and developing lists of heritage attributes.
- Conducting field surveys within Ontario as necessary providing written descriptions including architectural details of built heritage resources and cultural heritage landscapes documented in the field.
This role is ideal for candidates seeking flexible opportunities to contribute their expertise to meaningful projects in the cultural heritage field.
Qualifications :
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in a heritagerelated program or a heritagerelated diploma.
- Fundamental knowledge in heritage conservation.
- Excellent writing skills with the ability to selfedit.
Preferred Qualifications:
- A minimum of two years of relevant experience.
- Valid Canadian Class G drivers license.
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects while delivering highquality work on time and within budget.
- Familiarity with heritage legislation frameworks and policies including the Planning Act Provincial Planning Statement Ontario Heritage Act the Standards and Guidelines for Conservation of Provincial Heritage Properties the Parks Canada Standards & Guidelines for the Conservation of Historic Places in Canada and municipal Official Plan heritage policies.
Additional Information :
About AECOM
AECOM is the worlds trusted infrastructure consulting firm delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle from advisory planning design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation buildings water new energy and the environment our public and privatesector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise a culture of equity diversity and inclusion and a commitment to environmental social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.
Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity
You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether youre working from an AECOM office remote location or at a client site you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.
You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.
AECOM provides a wide array of compensation benefits and wellbeing programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. Were the worlds trusted global infrastructure firm and were in this together your growth and success are ours too.
Join us and youll get all the benefits of being a part of a global publicly traded firm access to industryleading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer we believe in each persons potential and well help you reach yours.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Contract
Employment Type
Contract
