Junior Cultural Heritage Specialist

About Us

Are you ambitious and looking to make the right move in your career? Now is the perfect time to join Egis. Egis is experiencing substantial growth in North America, now made up of over 1,000 engineers, architects and planners across Canada and the USA. This strategic move underscores our commitment to investing in North America, propelling our expansion to new heights.

Our values showcase everything we believe in:

A Responsible Company - We care about people, and we care about our impact; acting responsibly wherever we work and whatever we do.

A People-First Company - This is an environment of mutual respect where every team member matters, no matter who they are.

A Creative Company - Creativity is in our DNA. This is the fuel that helps us tackle the major challenges of our time.

The more important question you likely have is:
Are we the right company for you?

Joining Egis is an opportunity to make a valuable, positive impact on the world, while growing and developing as a person. Our culture is very collaborative, and we care about people and our impact. We take great pride in being responsible for our clients, for each other and for our planet and its people. You’ll work and innovate in an environment where high standards and personal consideration go hand-in-hand.

Learn more about the exciting opportunity below where you’ll be part of projects renowned for technical excellence, ambition and sustainability.

The Role:

Egis’ Environmental Division has been recognized over the past 30+ years as providing high-level deliverables and advice to a variety of clients, throughout Ontario and the rest of Canada. Our Environmental Division currently consists of experts in the following fields:
Cultural Heritage, Contaminant and Waste, Hydrogeology, Environmental Assessment, Natural Science and Environmental Engineering.

We are looking to expand our Environmental division in Ontario by hiring a motivated Cultural Heritage Specialist to support our growing Cultural Heritage team. The Egis Cultural Heritage team provides built heritage resource and cultural landscape services. Our areas of specialty include large, complex projects involving multiple stakeholder communities and often involving multiple levels of jurisdiction. We are looking for a Junior Cultural Heritage Specialist to work alongside the Cultural Heritage Manager who is enthusiastic about supporting the delivery of heritage projects across a range of public and private sector clients.

As a Junior Cultural Heritage Specialist, you will play a pivotal role in preserving and maintaining cultural heritage resources and ensuring their long-term sustainability.

Egis’ Environmental Division prides itself on having a people-first culture that emphasizes innovation, respect, fairness, and a commitment to quality. This is demonstrated through our flexible working hours, hybrid approach, focus on managing projects instead of employee time, and other aspects of our leadership approach.

This role is open to candidates who can work out of any of our Ontario offices including Markham, Toronto, Kingston, Ottawa or North Bay and offers hybrid work environment.

• Assist the team in preparing cultural heritage deliverables and complete key tasks required for heritage documents including, historical property research (e.g., archival research including OnLand, , Tax Assessment Rolls, historical map reviews, etc.), and screening for and developing inventories of built heritage resources and cultural heritage landscapes;
• Complete heritage evaluations using Ontario Regulation 9/06 and Ontario Regulation 10/06;
• Travel and conduct field surveys in Ontario, when necessary, and provide written descriptions, including architectural details, of built heritage resources and cultural heritage landscapes documented in the field;
• Attend and support public information sessions involving heritage; and,
• Assist with preparation of proposals using internal systems and operations.

• Bachelor’s degree/diploma in heritage planning, heritage conservation, or in a heritage related discipline;
• 1-2 years’ experience working in heritage…