Snr Counsel - Major Projects & Commercial

Energy Infrastructure Projects

Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne or Perth location

Major Corporate

Our client is a major player in the Energy Infrastructure space nationally and is key to Australia’s Energy Transition.

They are looking for a talented Projects and Commercial Counsel with 10+ years experience to join their legal team in either Brisbane (preferred) or Sydney, Melbourne or Perth.

This role provides pragmatic and strategic legal advice and services to enable the delivery of major projects.

  • Delivery of Energy projects on a whole of project basis

  • Project Documentation required for brown and greenfield energy project (Electricity Gas, renewable, hydrogen etc) Development Agreements, revenue / offtake agreements, (PPA’s / ESA’s) processing, transportation sale and storage agreements, O&M agreements, Connection agreements and related Upstream project documents

  • Joint Venture / Bidding Agreements, and other early stage development documents such as HOA’s MOU’s, LOI’s and term sheets

  • General Commercial Contracts

  • High level regulatory advice

A key focus of this role will include Legal Governance, that is managing the Legal Risk in relation to major projects

  • Assisting the Group Counsel in design implementation and governance of precedent contracts and templates

  • Manage Legal Budget and spend by proactively managing external external counsel stakeholders at every stage of their delivery

  • Assist in Compliance and Training programs for the business

  • Research and reporting on new or proposed legislation that will affect the companies operations

About You

  • 10+ years experience working on major projects (whole of projects front, and back end across a wide variety of project documents, including regulatory experience with exposure to construction law / construction contracts.

  • Strong experience in contract interpretation and drafting and associated dispute resolution

  • Ideally both private practice and in house experience

  • Strong stakeholder management experience, to be able to work as a trusted advisor to the business, and where necessary drive change

If you are looking for a senior legal role driving major projects for one of the biggest players in Australia’s Energy Transition this could be a great role for you

Chris Meharg