# Water Lead

**Company:** [Fluidstack](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fluidstack)
**Location:** Austin, TX
**Role:** Other
**Salary:** $200k – $350k/yr
**Skills:** Npdes Permits, Water Supply Agreements, Wastewater Agreements, Water Rights Diligence, Permitting, Water Policy, Regulatory Compliance, Decentralized Wastewater Systems, Water Recycling, Zero Liquid Discharge
**Posted:** 2026-07-01

> Own end-to-end water and wastewater infrastructure strategy for data center sites, including risk assessment, negotiating supply agreements, securing permits, ensuring regulatory compliance, and coordinating across teams to prevent delays in gigawatt-scale AI compute builds.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own water and wastewater infrastructure strategy across Fluidstack's full portfolio of data center sites, from initial site assessment and water rights diligence through supply agreements, permitting, and construction.
- Assess water supply risk and delivery feasibility for new sites before lease commitments are made, flagging constraints early enough to keep them off the build schedule.
- Negotiate water supply and wastewater agreements with local authorities, utilities, and service providers across US markets, and own the relationships that make those deals move.
- Drive compliance with water withdrawal limits, NPDES and pre-treatment permit conditions, and end-user flow agreements, tracking data and catching anomalies before they surface as operational or regulatory issues.
- Coordinate water workstreams across Development, Engineering, Design, Construction, and Operations so water timelines never gate a build.

## Requirements
- Personally owned water and wastewater infrastructure for industrial or data center projects from site selection through construction, across multiple concurrent sites.
- Negotiated water supply and wastewater agreements with local utilities and authorities, and closed deals where supply volume, rights, or infrastructure access wasn't straightforward.
- Track water policy, legal rights, and regulatory changes across active US markets and know when a state rule or permit condition is going to affect a site before anyone else flags it.
- Worked with NPDES permits, industrial pre-treatment permits, or decentralized wastewater systems in a US context, and can navigate the permit process without outside guidance.
- Quarterback across development, engineering, design, construction, and operations on water issues, keeping all open items visible and moving without losing anything in the handoffs.
- Write clearly enough to produce an external water narrative a customer or regulator can act on, and directly enough to close a difficult commercial negotiation with a water authority.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Civil or environmental engineering background.
- Data center water or cooling infrastructure experience.
- Water recycling, zero liquid discharge, or water efficiency systems.
- Decentralized wastewater systems.
- Multi-state water permitting track record.

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