Water Pipeline Design Engineer

Current Opening: Build the Blueprint from Day One
Rainbow Municipal Water District is pivoting to an aggressive, modern approach to infrastructure management. With 344 miles of pipelines to maintain, we are moving away from 100% outsourced designs and standing up a brand-new, dedicated in-house CIP construction crew to tackle ongoing, scheduled pipeline replacements.

We are hiring the program’s core Design Engineer first. In this role, your mission is to jump straight into AutoCAD Civil 3D, map alignments, run hydraulic models, and fill a robust pipeline of “shovel-ready” projects. Once the CIP crew is active, you will be their direct engineering partner—watching your designs being built in real time. 

In our agency, engineering work isn’t siloed. You won’t be slotted into one narrow function; instead, you’ll experience the full lifecycle of projects and directly influence how our infrastructure systems evolve.

We are flexibly staffing this position at the Assistant, Associate, or Journey level (DOQ). 
Whether you are a motivated EIT looking for an accelerated pathway to your P.E., or a licensed Civil Engineer seeking autonomous ownership of capital design projects, this role scales to your expertise. As our primary in-house engineer, you will not get lost in the shuffle; you will directly design pipelines, collaborate with our field construction crews, and see your concepts built in real-time.

Explore the Job Brochure to learn about the position.

RMWD Design Engineer Brochure 2026

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