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Tech Lead, Water Engineering

🗓️ Posted 2026-09-29 Mesa, AZ Fulltime Hybrid Engineering
💰 Salary US$12–US$16,667/mo (US$150–US$200,000/yr) 📊 Market US$9,500–US$14,500/mo

About the Company

TECH LEAD, WATER ENGINEERING Location: Mesa, Arizona Employment type: Full-time Compensation: 150-200k total comp ABOUT ADC ADC Water is a growing water and wastewater engineering firm built for clients that need senior judgment, practical execution, and direct accountability. The team works across municipal, commercial, and industrial environments on projects ranging from package treatment systems and lift stations to larger municipal infrastructure and complex water needs supporting data-center development. ADC operates with a lean, experienced team and gives technical leaders meaningful ownership of projects, close access to company leadership, and the ability to shape standards as the business scales. This is an opportunity to help build the technical backbone of the next stage of the firm-not to become another layer in a large approval structure.

About the Role

ADC is hiring a Senior Water/Wastewater Technical Lead who can own project outcomes day to day and become a long-term technical center of gravity for the firm. This person will take responsibility for work that currently reaches senior leadership for technical and mechanical review. The role combines hands-on engineering judgment, multidisciplinary design leadership, QA/QC, client communication, permitting, construction-phase support, and plant startup. It is designed for a proven engineer who has carried entire projects-not only one technical piece of them-and who wants more ownership, variety, and influence. The near-term mandate is to produce excellent work, learn ADC's clients and standards, and progressively take responsible charge of assigned projects. Over time, this person may grow into the firm's principal technical leader as the current Principal Engineer transitions toward mentoring and standards oversight. WHAT YOU WILL OWN - Lead water and wastewater projects from client definition and scoping through design, permitting, bidding, construction support, startup, and closeout. - Serve as the day-to-day technical owner for assigned projects and make sound decisions without requiring a separate project manager, CAD department, or QA layer to keep work moving. - Perform and oversee process and treatment engineering for both wastewater and water systems, with particular depth in wastewater. - Review mechanical and multidisciplinary design work, including redl

Requirements

  • ● + years of experience, with the judgment of a senior technical lead and the desire to remain close to delivery.
  • ● Arizona regulatory and permitting experience, including work involving ADEQ, Maricopa County Environmental Services Department (MCESD), municipalities, utilities, or similar authorities having jurisdiction.
  • ● Existing PE licensure in one or more additional states, especially Washington, or demonstrated ability to obtain comity licensure quickly.
  • ● A record of increasing responsibility and reasonable career stability.
  • ● THE PROFILE MOST LIKELY TO THRIVE
  • ● You may be the technical backbone of a smaller Arizona firm and have reached the ceiling of what that environment can offer. You may be a strong engineer inside a mid-sized organization who is ready to move faster and own outcomes without layers of approval. Or you may work for a utility and miss designing, building, and starting up the systems you currently review.
  • ● What matters most is that you enjoy carrying the whole project. You want meaningful responsibility-not simply a larger title-and you are energized by moving between smaller, highly practical assignments and larger, more complex infrastructure programs.
  • ● EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
  • ● ADC evaluates candidates based on their ability to perform the work and contribute to the team. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to legally protected characteristics.