Associate General Counsel

Description

• The Assistant General Counsel will be responsible for drafting, reviewing, and revising a variety of different legal documents ranging from commercial business and real estate transactions, construction services, product materials supply contracts, infrastructure and major equipment leases and purchase agreements. Additional other legal and non-legal tasks and responsibilities will be assigned to the Assistant General Counsel based on abilities and changing company needs.
• Provide legal guidance on procurement processes, including RFI/RFQ/RFP development and contract drafting.
• Advise on contract administration, potential claims, and legal strategies related to construction or design issues, including forensic construction scheduling.
• The Assistant General Counsel reports to and supports the company’s General Counsel and will work directly with cross-functional executive and team leaders across corporate, construction, and product manufacturing business lines.

Requirements

• Ability to think, plan, organize and implement strategically and experience in doing so.
• At least 5-7 years’ experience working for a private law firm or as an in-house counsel.
• Demonstrated ability to apply legal and risk analysis to factual circumstances and exercise sound judgment.
• Experience in some of the following areas is essential: corporate matters and commercial, construction, infrastructure and real estate transactions.
• Ability to develop and maintain relationships with people at all levels within and outside of the organization.
• Possess a strong understanding of both legal and business confidentiality considerations.
• Demonstrated ability to both convey clear and accurate legal advice and be solution-oriented to assist clients in achieving business objectives.
• Demonstrated ability to apply and integrate organizational goals and objectives in work product and procedures.
• Undergraduate degree, and a Juris Doctorate degree from an ABA accredited law school and is licensed to practice law in the State of Texas.
• Excellent verbal and written communications, negotiation, and organizational skills.
• Ability to use common office software for developing and exchanging electronic correspondence (e.g., Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Teams, OneDrive);
• Demonstrated legal writing skills in describing key facts, analyzing legal issues and presenting advice clearly and succinctly.
• Demonstrated experience developing, implementing, and administering internal corporate programs.
• Ability to manage a large workload of varying complexity efficiently and independently.
• A general understanding of general corporate law, commercial law, construction law, real estate law, and utilities law.
• Ability to balance and differentiate between legal concerns and business concerns.
• Ability to communicate orally and in writing to people at all levels within and outside of the organization on potentially sensitive or highly charged issues sufficient to exchange information, work cooperatively, facilitate understanding, and persuade and influence others.
• Experience in labor and employment law is preferred but not required.
• Ability to provide strategic and day-to-day direction to colleagues at all levels, and ability to work genially and productively with such colleagues.
• Ability to understand business and compliance issues and opportunities quickly and accurately, then creating and deploying appropriate action plans.
• Ability to respond to the priorities of business leaders and external customers, and experience in doing so.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance