Legal Counsel - Energy and Water

Job Description

Legal Counsel – Energy and Water

Location: Dallas, Texas

About Texas Instruments (TI)

Texas Instruments (TI) is a global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures and sells analog and embedded processing chips used across industrial, automotive, data center, personal electronics, and communications. With a vast manufacturing footprint that spans the globe, TI operates complex, capital-intensive facilities that require reliable access to energy, water, and wastewater infrastructure to enable our manufacturing processes that support our business strategy.

The Role

We are seeking a proactive Legal Counsel to support TI operations on local regulatory, energy, and water management matters. Based in the Dallas, Texas office, this attorney will provide strategic and practical legal advice across a wide spectrum of issues, including public utility regulation, site-level energy and water infrastructure, water rights, wastewater discharge and pretreatment, energy utility transactions, resource incentives, and engagement with local and regional authorities.

This role operates at the intersection of law, operations, and government engagement. You will collaborate closely with site leaders, operations, facilities management, environmental safety & health (ESH), sustainability, and government relations teams to manage regulatory risk, maintain infrastructure access, and enable site growth while advancing corporate renewable energy and sustainability commitments.

Key Responsibilities

• Advise on U.S. federal, state, and local regulations affecting site-level energy, renewable energy, water management, and water rights.
• Provide legal support for wastewater discharge, pretreatment permits, POTW and regional utility requirements, including treatment capacity and allocation.
• Support Public Utility Commission (PUC) matters, rate issues, and energy utility transactions impacting site operations.
• Draft, review, and negotiate energy supply agreements, renewable power purchase agreements, water and wastewater service agreements, and site utility contracts.
• Counsel sites on discretionary utility and regulatory decisions affecting infrastructure access, capacity availability, and growth sequencing.
• Advise on groundwater use, water rights availability, and related permitting and compliance obligations.
• Support renewable energy projects and ensure alignment with corporate renewable energy commitments.
• Partner with government relations to engage utilities, POTWs, water districts, and regulators on site-specific energy and water matters.
• Advise on and help structure federal, state, and local incentive programs related to energy, renewables, water, and infrastructure.
• Collaborate with operations, ESH, sustainability, and facilities teams to manage risk and enable resilient site operations.
  
  

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Juris Doctor (JD) degree and active license to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
• 5–8 years of relevant legal experience.
• Strong working knowledge of U.S. energy and water regulatory frameworks, including public utilities and site-level permitting.
• Experience drafting and negotiating energy- and/or water-related contracts.
• Ability to advise operational, technical, and business stakeholders on complex regulatory issues.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multi-stakeholder matters in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience advising industrial or manufacturing operations on wastewater discharge, pretreatment programs, POTWs, or regional water authorities.
• Experience with energy utility transactions and Public Utility Commission proceedings or approvals.
• Experience advising on water rights, groundwater usage, or water availability constraints.
• Experience supporting renewable energy projects or renewable power purchase agreements.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience advising industrial or manufacturing operations on wastewater discharge, pretreatment programs, POTWs, or regional water authorities.
• Experience with energy utility transactions and Public Utility Commission proceedings or approvals.
• Experience advising on water rights, groundwater usage, or water availability constraints.
• Experience supporting renewable energy projects or renewable power purchase agreements.
  
  

About Us

Why TI?

• Engineer your future. We empower our employees to truly own their career and development. Come collaborate with some of the smartest people in the world to shape the future of electronics.
• We're different by design. Diverse backgrounds and perspectives are what push innovation forward and what make TI stronger. We value each and every voice, and look forward to hearing yours. Meet the people of TI
• Benefits that benefit you. We offer competitive pay and benefits designed to help you and your family live your best life. Your well-being is important to us.
  
  

About Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments Incorporated (Nasdaq: TXN) is a global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures and sells analog and embedded processing chips for markets such as industrial, automotive, data center, personal electronics and communications equipment. At our core, we have a passion to create a better world by making electronics more affordable through semiconductors. This passion is alive today as each generation of innovation builds upon the last to make our technology more reliable, more affordable and lower power, making it possible for semiconductors to go into electronics everywhere. Learn more at TI.com .

Texas Instruments is an equal opportunity employer and supports a diverse, inclusive work environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, disability, genetic information, national origin, gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

If you are interested in this position, please apply to this requisition.