Cultural Heritage Specialist

Company Description

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Job Description

AECOM is seeking a Cultural Heritage Specialist to join our growing team on a casual, on-call 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 land-use planning and development activities. We focus on infrastructure projects and have extensive experience supporting all phases of the development process-planning, 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 long-term 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 heritage-related 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

• Bachelor's degree in a heritage-related program or a heritage-related diploma.

• Fundamental knowledge in heritage conservation.

• Excellent writing skills with the ability to self-edit.

Preferred Qualifications

• A minimum of two years of relevant experience.

• Valid Canadian Class G driver's license.

• Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects while delivering high-quality 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

Offered compensation will be based on location and individual qualifications. The expected range is $21.00/hour - $30.00/hour.

About AECOM

AECOM is the world's 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 private-sector 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 ~~~ 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 you're 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 well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We're the world's trusted global infrastructure firm, and we're in this together - your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you'll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm - access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

ReqID: J10120030

Business Line: Environment

Business Group: DCS

Strategic Business Unit: Canada

Career Area: Planning

Work Location Model: Hybrid

Legal Entity: AECOM Canada Ltd