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Principal Engineering Technician

Sacramento Area Sewer District (CA)
Sacramento, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 12/17/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/17/2026

Sacramento Area Sewer District (SacSewer) is currently accepting applications for a Principal Engineering Technician position. Applications will be screened after the following filing deadlines at 5PM:

12/01/25, *12/10/25, 12/17/25

Principal Engineering Technician is the advanced and/or lead specialist level in the series.  Incumbents are either lead workers of assigned staff, perform difficult field or office research and administrative tasks, and leads a program or functional area or perform a variety of complex, technical work involving plan checking, map checking, design & drafting assignments like those often assigned to beginning level professional engineers. Specialty assignments include interpreting and applying engineering principles and techniques to the resolution of problems.


MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Either:  1. Two years of full-time experience in the class of Senior Engineering Technician in Sacramento Area Sewer District (SacSewer) service including one year of experience in the option be tested.

Or:  2. Four years of sub-professional engineering experience involving public works facilities or structures work, including two years of experience comparable to the Senior Engineering Technician in Sacramento Area Sewer District (SacSewer) service in the option being tested.

Note: Completion of coursework in engineering or related field at an accredited college or university may be substituted for up to one year of the required experience. Related education substitutions for the required experience are computed based on 3 semester units or 4.5 quarter units = 1 work month.


How to Apply:

If you are interested in pursuing this exceptional career opportunity, please submit your online application. For first consideration, apply by Monday, December 1, 2025, at 5:00PM

Click on the below link to review the full class spec for more information about this position:  

Principal Engineering Technician


If you have question about this recruitment, please contact Recruitment@Sacsewer.com


Sacramento Area Sewer District is an equal opportunity employer

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