Senior Architectural Historian/Built Environment Specialist

Dudek • Full-time • Los Angeles/Pasadena, CA • 3d ago

Who We Are
Dudek is a leading environmental, planning, and engineering firm that help public and private clients plan, design, and build projects that improve communities’ built and natural infrastructure. 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. We seek creative, pragmatic problem-solvers working at the intersection of science, engineering, regulations, and multiple stakeholders’ interest to help clients achieve project goals.
We encourage collaboration, sustainability, and innovation.

At Dudek, we abide by shared values:
Trust: We trust each other to use good judgment.
Respect: We act professionally and treat each other fairly.
Teamwork: We come together, share openly, and apply diverse perspectives.
Fun: We take our work seriously…not ourselves.
Well-Being: We care about each other’s health, safety, and total wellness.

Our culture is the foundation of who we are and how we work. We empower our employee-owners to invest in our local communities and themselves through initiatives that make Dudek a great place to work! Our cultural programs include:

DuGreen: Our sustainability initiative, which works to improve our environmental footprint
DuGood: Our philanthropic initiative, which seeks to support the communities in which we live and work through fundraising challenges, office-based giving and opportunity to take a paid volunteer day each year.
eDUcate: Our educational outreach program where we aim to foster interest in our work and careers in the environmental and engineering field by participating in educational events in our communities.
DuWell: Our wellness initiative, aimed at providing education on wellness, benefit resources, and preventive care.

At Dudek, we recognize that different perspectives, inclusivity, trust and belonging build a stronger culture and add value to our firm. Dudek's Employee Resource (ERGs) operate as diversity champions within Dudek and create a safe space for underrepresented employees and their allies to support, collaborate, network, and brainstorm ways to make Dudek’s work community more inclusive. We proudly support our 4 Employee Resource Groups (ERGs):

Women at Dudek
Members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ+) community
Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) employees
Disabled employees (all disabilities, seen / unseen)

Learn more about our culture.

About The Job
The Senior Architectural Historian/Built Environment Specialist will be part of Dudek’s cultural resources team and will manage and prepare historic resource evaluations and related technical documents in compliance with CEQA, NEPA, and Section 106 of the NHPA.
Learn more about the projects you will have the opportunity to shape.

Who You Are
To thrive at Dudek, you should be comfortable with accountability, collaboration, flexibility while being a resourceful and independent thinker. We look for curious, solution-focused people who can adapt quickly to an ever-changing industry. There is no single way to solve a problem, so we encourage innovation.

Duties and Responsibilities (may include some or all of the below):

Experience in evaluating historic era properties in consideration of NRHP, CRHR, and local-level designation criteria and integrity requirements
Ability to lead research, develop, and write historic context statements
Knowledge of the California Historical Resources Information System, experience in processing records search data, and familiarity with the Built Environment Resource Directory maintained by the California Office of Historic Preservation
Manage historic resource surveys, evaluations, and related technical documents in compliance with CEQA, NEPA, Section 106 of the NHPA, and applicable local requirements
Ability to manage projects/deliverables from start to finish and meet deliverable deadlines·
Conduct, organize, and lead built environment fieldwork efforts: understand recordation of a variety of buildings and structures and oversee field crew
Perform essential project management duties, managing project budgets, coordinating client invoicing, preparing project and report schedules, and effectively communicating with internal project managers and clients
Proposals and business development - prepare scopes of work and costs sheets for built environment work
Manage and when possible develop regional workload in coordination with other senior members of the built environment team
Assessing CEQA impacts/Section 106 effects regarding historical resources/historic properties in consideration of federal, state, and local requirements
Experience in preparing and contributing to Cultural Resources EIR sections and assessing impacts under CEQA for historical resources.
Experience in preparing Section 106 Finding of Effects documentation.
Experience in working with the Secretary of the Interiors Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties, and understand the application of these Standards in federal, state, and local regulatory settings
Effectively communicate as a senior team member of the cultural resources group.
Ability to effectively delegate technical work, provide guidance on technical approaches, and provide mentorship to staff

Minimum Requirements

Master’s degree in History, Architectural History, Historic Preservation, or a related field
Meets the Secretary of the Interior’s Professional Qualifications Standards for architectural history
Strong writing and research skills
Strong communication skills (both with clients and co-workers)
Ability to work from example reports and 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.
Ability to respond professionally to internal and external reviews of technical work and provide professional senior level review of internal and external work products.
Ability to work as part of a team of cultural resources professionals, including but not limited to mentorship of rising staff, effective mentoring and applying tested, understandable, and positive techniques to help other staff in their career trajectories.
Experience conducting property-specific research, including, but not limited to, building permit research, chain of title research, online genealogy and historic newspaper research, historic map research, and primary research at a wide variety of archival facilities
Familiarity with CHRIS records searches
Ability to prepare technical reports for projects that fall under the jurisdiction of CEQA and Section 106 of the NHPA
Experience developing historic context statements and registration requirements
Solid understanding of the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Treatment of Historic Properties
Experience evaluating properties in accordance with local, state, and national criteria and integrity requirements on State of California Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) forms
Experience assessing impacts on CEQA historical resources and adverse effects on historic properties under Section 106 of the NHPA.
Ability to travel for fieldwork
Valid driver’s license
Ability to advise both co-workers and clients on regulatory compliance concerns regarding historic era-built environment properties
Ability to develop scopes and costs based on project/regulatory compliance needs
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

At least ten years of professional experience in the discipline of architectural history/historic preservation regulatory compliance.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

Previous staff management experience is preferred but not required. Eventually, the candidate may be asked to formally manage staff. This role does require mentoring early and mid-career staff on project and proposal efforts.

Physical Requirements
Working Conditions:

This job requires the management of report deadlines
This job may occasionally require working with demanding clients (internal and external).
This job operates in a remote or office-based environment and this role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, printers, etc.
This job requires occasional project site visits-based outdoors which can include excessive noise, extensive walking on 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: $100,000-$132,000 annually*
*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
At Dudek we will provide you with a competitive salary in an environment that promotes growth, career development, and a flexible work–life balance. Dudek offers an array of benefits, from medical, dental, and vision coverage, to the 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! To honor our key value of well-being, Dudek provides generous Paid Time Off (PTO) packages for both salaried and hourly employees. If you’re tired of an overly bureaucratic decision-making process and want to be part of a work culture that puts its employees first, 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.

Dudek is a U.S.-based employer. All positions are based in the U.S. and require U.S. work authorization.

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