Legal Counsel/Senior Legal Counsel

Overview

Legal counsel providing contract, dispute, compliance and corporate advice for engineering projects.

Key Responsibilities

• claims management
• policy compliance
• team mentoring
• legal advisory
• training delivery
• knowledge management

Tasks

-Disputes & Insurance: Managing claims and litigation, including professional indemnity matters, in collaboration with internal teams, insurers, and external counsel. -Compliance & Governance: Maintaining internal policies, implementing legal updates, and contributing to monthly legal communications. -Team Leadership: Mentoring junior legal staff and contributing to team strategy and growth. -Corporate Advisory: Providing ad hoc legal advice on corporate law, IP, privacy, competition law, and insurance. -Training & Education: Delivering legal and commercial training to project teams to promote risk awareness and legal understanding. -Knowledge Management: Supporting the development of legal precedents and resources.

Requirements

• communication
• problem solving
• contract drafting
• epcm
• contract law
• law degree

What You Bring

-Excellent communication, negotiation, and problem-solving skills -Contracts: Drafting, negotiating, and advising on engineering and construction agreements, ensuring smooth contractual setup, compliance with applicable laws, policies and procedures, and risk mitigation. Experience with D&C, ITC, EPCM, and Alliance models is essential. -Experience in either consulting engineering/architecture or the construction sector -Strong understanding of procurement models and contract law -Law degree and current Australian practising certificate -5–10 years’ post-qualification experience

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Benefits

-Health and wellbeing support via a confidential Employee Assistance Program. -Competitive remuneration. -On-the-job coaching to help you be the best you can be, including leveraging BG&E’s global network of experts to help you realise your professional development goals to grow your career at BG&E -Flexible working arrangements to help achieve real work life balance.

About Bg&E

-Structured as an employee-owned business, it prioritises collaboration and expert-driven decision making at every level. -Financially robust, serving a diverse client base including infrastructure, transport, building and water sectors, delivering cost-effective and constructable engineering solutions. -The firm’s portfolio spans ambitious bridge and transport infrastructure works in Australia and Asia to innovative building façade and flood-management projects internationally. -Specialising in disciplines like bridges, civil and structural engineering, hydrology, rail, facades and digital engineering, integrating technical depth across sectors. -Noted for seamlessly blending award-winning engineering with practical constructability, its projects include iconic bridges, adaptive-reuse towers, highways and water infrastructure. -Its history includes pioneering digital engineering capabilities—integrating BIM, GIS, flood modelling and materials durability into project delivery. -Global reach spans Australia, NZ, Southeast Asia, the UK and the Middle East, highlighting adaptability to diverse technical, regulatory and cultural contexts.

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