Arizona Department of Water Resources

To safeguard the health, safety and economic welfare of the public by protecting, conserving and enhancing Arizona's water supplies in a bold, thoughtful and innovative manner. 

 

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Feb 25, 2026
Full time
$70,000 - $90,000 yearly
Arizona Department of Water Resources Hybrid (Phoenix, AZ, USA)
H ydrogeologist Associate Hydrology Division/Groundwater Modeling Section WWW.AZWATER.GOV       Job Location: Hybrid: remote and 1110 W. Washington St., Suite #310 - Phoenix, AZ 85007 Posting Details: Salary:  $70,000-$90,000 Grade: 25 Closing Date: Open Until Filled Job Summary: Under the overall supervision of the Section Manager, the Hydrologist Associate serves as a project lead for developing and reporting regional groundwater flow models and acts as a go-to resource for others in the modeling section or the department at-large seeking modeling expertise. Whether leading a team or working independently, the Hydrologist Associate is a technical expert responsible for the development of new groundwater models across all stages of their lifecycle: from conceptualization to initial setup, testing, calibration, documentation, and...
Feb 25, 2026
Full time
$55,000 - $75,000 yearly
Arizona Department of Water Resources Hybrid (Phoenix, AZ, USA)
Water Resources Specialist 3 Water Planning Division/Recharge and Recovery Section WWW.AZWATER.GOV     Job Location: Address: Hybrid - 1110 W. Washington St. Suite #310 Phoenix, AZ 85007 Posting Details: Salary: $55,000 - $75,000  Grade: 23 Closing Date: Open Until Filled Please submit a cover letter (not AI generated) explaining your interest in this position and how you and your skills are suited to the role.  Interviews will be in person. Job Summary: This position serves as a key member of the Recharge and Recovery Section in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment. The person in this position is responsible for a variety of tasks, including permit application reviews, issuance and transfers of long-term storage credits, review of annual reports, and records and database management. Responsible for organizing and...
Feb 25, 2026
Full time
$55,000 - $75,000 yearly
Arizona Department of Water Resources Hybrid (Phoenix, AZ, USA)
Water Resources Specialist 3 Statewide Planning Division/Water System (CWS) Program WWW.AZWATER.GOV       Job Location: Hybrid: remote and 1110 W. Washington St., Suite #310 - Phoenix, AZ 85007  Posting Details: Salary:  $55,000 - $75,000 Grade: 23 Closing Date: Open Until Filled Job Summary: This position is responsible for coordinating and administering the Community Water Systems Program (CWS), as well as supporting other Statewide Planning Section functions. Job responsibilities include but are not limited to managing data and reporting compliance for 750+ Community Water Systems, providing technical assistance and resources to providers and customers; reviewing, inputting, analyzing, and interpreting CWS annual report and SWP data; writing and revising CWS documents that reflect the Program's requirements and procedures for...
Feb 25, 2026
Full time
$50,000 - $65,000 yearly
Arizona Department of Water Resources Hybrid (Phoenix, AZ, USA)
H ydrogeologist  2 Water Planning & Permitting Division/Groundwater Permitting and Wells Section WWW.AZWATER.GOV       Job Location:  Hybrid: remote and 1110 W. Washington St., Suite #310 - Phoenix, AZ 85007 Posting Details: Salary:  $50,000 -$65,000 Grade: 22 Closing Date: Open Until Filled Job Summary: This position is responsible for providing technical support and assisting the coordination efforts with ADEQ, EPA and other federal, state and local agencies and private entities concerning well construction, well abandonment, and vertical cross-contamination/plume migration issues near groundwater contamination sites. Additionally, this position assists with preparation of quarterly and annual reports to ADEQ, the legislature, and the Governor, as well as periodic ADWR-internal reports. Job Duties:...
Feb 25, 2026
Full time
$55,000 - $75,000 yearly
Arizona Department of Water Resources Hybrid (Phoenix, AZ, USA)
Water Resources Specialist 3 Water Planning Division/AMA Section WWW.AZWATER.GOV       Job Location: Hybrid: remote and 1110 W. Washington St., Suite #310 - Phoenix, AZ 85007 Posting Details: Salary:  $55,000 - $75,000 Grade: 23 Closing Date: Open Until Filled Job Summary: This position will be responsible for reviewing and processing applications for grandfathered rights in subsequent Active Management Areas (AMAs) including Willcox AMA and Ranegras Plain AMA; assisting in the development of the Management Plans and conservation requirements for subsequent Active Management Areas; and developing an accurate understanding of applicable laws, rules, statutes, policies and procedures in use by ADWR and communicating them to the regulated community and interested parties on a regular basis via written communication, phone call and...
Jan 29, 2026
Full time
$50,000 - $65,000 yearly
Arizona Department of Water Resources Hybrid (Phoenix, AZ, USA)
Water Resources Specialist 2 Water Planning & Permitting Division/Groundwater Permitting and Well Section WWW.AZWATER.GOV     Job Location: Address: Hybrid - 1110 W. Washington St. Suite #310 Phoenix, AZ 85007 Posting Details: Salary: $50,000 - $65,000 Grade: 22 Closing Date: Open Until Filled Job Summary: This position is the fully qualified working level in the Water Resources Specialist classification, responsible for various assignments, projects, analyses, and research. Candidates must possess strong organizational skills and attention to detail, working closely with staff and providing assistance to the public. This position may offer the ability to work remotely, within Arizona, based upon the department's business needs and continual meeting of expected performance measures. The State of Arizona strives...
Jan 29, 2026
Full time
$55,000 - $75,000 yearly
Arizona Department of Water Resources Hybrid (Phoenix, AZ, USA)
Water Resources Specialist 2-3  Water Planning Division/Surface Water Section WWW.AZWATER.GOV        Job Location: Address: Hybrid - 1110 W. Washington St., Suite #310 - Phoenix, AZ 85007 Posting Details: Grade: 23 - Salary:  $55,000 - $,75000 Grade: 22 - Salary:  $50,000 - $65,000 Closing Date: Open Until Filled Job Summary: This position is responsible for the processing, expediting, and approving and/or rejecting surface water right applications, permits, certificates and claims. The roles obligation is for ensuring adherence of surface water right applications and claims to Department policies, regulations and procedures and State and Federal statutes and rules. This position may offer the ability to work remotely, within Arizona, based upon the department's business needs and continual meeting of expected...
Jan 29, 2026
Full time
$50,000 - $65,000 yearly
Arizona Department of Water Resources Hybrid (Phoenix, AZ, USA)
Water Resources Specialist 2-3  Water Planning Division/Surface Water Section WWW.AZWATER.GOV        Job Location: Address: Hybrid - 1110 W. Washington St., Suite #310 - Phoenix, AZ 85007 Posting Details: Grade: 23 - Salary:  $55,000 - $,75000 Grade: 22 - Salary:  $50,000 - $65,000 Closing Date: Open Until Filled Job Summary: This position is responsible for the processing, expediting, and approving and/or rejecting surface water right applications, permits, certificates and claims. The roles obligation is for ensuring adherence of surface water right applications and claims to Department policies, regulations and procedures and State and Federal statutes and rules. This position may offer the ability to work remotely, within Arizona, based upon the department's business needs and continual meeting of expected...
Dec 29, 2025
Full time
$70,000 - $90,000 yearly
Arizona Department of Water Resources Hybrid (Phoenix, AZ, USA)
Water Resources Specialist Associate Statewide Planning Division/Surface Water Section WWW.AZWATER.GOV      Job Location: Hybrid: remote and 1110 W. Washington St., Suite #310 - Phoenix, AZ 85007   Posting Details: Salary:  $70,000 - $90,000 Grade: 25 Closing Date: Open Until Filled Job Summary: This position is responsible for the processing, expediting, and approving/rejecting surface water applications, amendments, assignments, decision & orders and transfers that are highly complex, sensitive, and visible in nature, with a focus on severance & transfer and permit to appropriate applications. This position is also responsible for providing technical support to the Arizona General Stream Adjudication Court and Special Master(s) through the investigations of groundwater and surface water filings, adjudication...
Nov 25, 2025
Full time
$68,000 - $75,000 yearly
Arizona Department of Water Resources Hybrid (Phoenix, AZ, USA)
Business Analyst (Data Governance Lead) Director's Office - Office of Enterprise Data Management WWW.AZWATER.GOV Job Location: Address: Hybrid - 1110 W. Washington St., Suite #310  Phoenix, AZ 85007  Posting Details: Salary: $68,000 - $75,000  Grade: 24 Closing Date: Open Until Filled Job Summary: AADWR has an Office of Enterprise Data Management (OEDM) responsible for the Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Program. The person in this position would serve as assistant to the manager of that program by helping to administer existing, and implement new, data management initiatives using proven best practices under the guidance of the EDM manager. The person in this position will also attend statewide data management meetings and represent the agency in the manager's absence. This position may offer the ability to work remotely,...
Sep 29, 2025
Full time
$70,000 - $90,000 yearly
Arizona Department of Water Resources Hybrid (Phoenix, AZ, USA)
Hydrogeologist Associate Statewide Planning & Permitting Division Surface Water Section WWW.AZWATER.GOV       Job Location: Hybrid: remote and 1110 W. Washington St., Suite #310 - Phoenix, AZ 85007 Posting Details: Salary:  $70,000-$90,000 Grade: 25 Closing Date: Open Until Filled Job Summary: This position is responsible for providing technical support for the processing, expediting and approving and/or rejecting surface water right applications and claims, with an emphasis on instream flow and sever and transfer applications. Responsible for ensuring adherence of surface water Department policies, rules, procedures and State and Federal statutes. This position may offer the ability to work remotely, within Arizona, based upon the department's business needs and continual meeting of expected performance measures. A...
Sep 29, 2025
Full time
$50,000 - $65,000 yearly
Arizona Department of Water Resources Hybrid (Phoenix, AZ, USA)
Hydrogeologist  2 Hydrology Division - Field Services Section WWW.AZWATER.GOV       Job Location: Hybrid: remote and 1110 W. Washington St., Suite #310 - Phoenix, AZ 85007   Posting Details: Salary: $50,000 - $65,000 Grade: 22 Closing Date: Open Until Filled Job Summary: This position's primary purpose is to perform hydrologic fieldwork and is responsible for data collection in support of the Department's programs. Specifically groundwater level measurements, stream flow measurements, well discharge measurements, plus the occasional assistance with the operation & maintenance, downloading, and uploading of transducer well data from well sites.  This position is expected to maintain and input data into ADWR databases. Drafting of hydrologic reports and field summaries for management and the general...
Sep 29, 2025
Full time
$85,000 - $110,000 yearly
Arizona Department of Water Resources Phoenix, AZ, USA
Dam Safety Engineer Engineering Section WWW.AZWATER.GOV       Posting Details: Salary: $85,000 - $110,000 Grade: 24 Closing Date: Open Until Filled Job Summary: The Department has jurisdiction over approximately 250 dams in the State of Arizona. The Department is seeking an engineer to provide engineering support associated with dam safety projects. The selected candidate will act as a member of a group of registered professional engineers and non-registered professionals that provides regulatory oversight for jurisdictional dams in the State . This position may offer the ability to work remotely within Arizona based on the department's business needs and a continual meeting of expected performance measures. A minimum of two days on-site at the ADWR office per week is required. The State of Arizona strives for a work culture that affords employees...
Sep 29, 2025
Full time
$75,000 - $95,000 yearly
Arizona Department of Water Resources Hybrid (Phoenix, AZ, USA)
Water Resources Manager Water Planning Division/Recharge & Recovery Section WWW.AZWATER.GOV       Job Location: Hybrid: remote and 1110 W.  Washington  St., Suite #310 Phoenix, AZ 85007  Posting Details: Salary: $75,000 - $95,000 Grade: 27 Closing Date: Open Until Filled Please submit a cover letter describing your interest in the position and how you are suited to the role Job Summary: The Recharge and Recovery Manager leads a team of professional staff with the responsibility to review, process, approve or deny applications, and issue permits for the Underground Storage, Savings and Replenishment (Recharge) Program and Recovery Well Permitting for the State of Arizona in accordance with State and Federal statutes and ADWR rules, policies, and procedures.  The manager reports directly to the...