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Our offices and project sites span the West Coast in California, Nevada and Washington with a staff of over 260 employee-owners. We focus on serving clients in the municipal, water, transportation, and education markets.\nIf you're a driven professional looking for a collaborative environment, work that makes a difference, and a firm that invests heavily in your growth, you could be a perfect fit for Harris & Associates. Harris & Associates is hiring a Technical Lead / Principal Engineer to provide project leadership, quality assurance / quality control, technical mentoring, and staff development for the Engineering division.\nTechnical Lead / Principal Engineer\nLead technical designs, manage project teams, provide QA/QC on design deliverables (i.e. linear pipelines, civil infrastructure, pump station projects, roadways, etc). 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