Senior Legal Counsel

Senior Legal Counsel - Energy Solutions and Delivery role at APA Group. The opportunity: APA's purpose is to secure Australia's energy future. We're Australia's energy infrastructure partner, working with customers and communities. The Senior Legal Counsel - Energy Solutions and Delivery will join the APA Legal, Governance & Regulatory team in Brisbane (preferred) but Sydney, Melbourne or Perth may be considered, on a permanent full-time basis. Reporting to the Group Counsel Energy Solutions & Delivery, the main objective is to partner with APA's business to provide pragmatic and strategic legal advice and services enabling delivery of Major Projects within APA's risk appetite.

• Delivery of effective, timely, commercial and pragmatic legal advice related to Energy Projects on a whole of project basis and general commercial advisory and dispute resolution, including documents for greenfield or brownfield major energy projects such as gas, electricity, hydrogen etc
• Joint venture and bidding agreements and documentation for early-stage development projects such as HOAs, MOUs, LOIs and term sheets
• General and ancillary commercial contracts for all business units, such as recoverable works agreements
• High level regulatory matters including gas inquiries and ring-fencing issues
• Management of legal risk in relation to major projects and commercial areas across the APA business
• Assist the Group Counsel in design, implementation and governance of standards and processes to drive efficiency in the use of legal services including self-service tools and guidance materials

• Admitted to practice as a Legal Practitioner in Australia with current practising certificate
• Strong hands-on experience advising on major projects across all project documents, including regulatory exposure, with experience in construction law and contracts
• Excellent contract interpretation, drafting and dispute resolution experience
• Advanced knowledge of major projects from law firm training, preferably with in-house experience, with subject matter expertise
• Technical skills to drive strategy and act as trusted advisor to the business unsupervised and comfortable with ambiguity and change
• Strong communication and influencing skills and ability to work with a broad range of stakeholders

The Legal, Governance & Regulatory function supports APA to manage legal risk through delivery of independent, commercially oriented, cost-effective, high quality and timely legal advice and services. We have a strong culture of continuous improvement and working towards Net Zero with the introduction of renewable green gas into the Gas Networks. We need people who are courageous, nimble and ready to make a positive impact.

APA is committed to fostering a safe and inclusive workplace with targeted career development, competitive remuneration, employee benefits, flexible working arrangements, and wellbeing programs. We also have an inclusive parental leave policy providing 18 weeks leave including superannuation. We employ more than 2700 people across Australia and are committed to diversity and inclusion.

We are APA

APA Group is a leading Australian energy infrastructure business. We own, operate and manage a diverse 26 billion portfolio of gas, electricity, solar and wind assets delivering essential services across Australia. We own more than 15,000 kilometres of gas pipelines. We are focused on energy transition and future energy including hydrogen and carbon capture and storage. Our customer centric approach means we deliver reliable, innovative and cost-effective energy solutions to support decarbonisation ambitions. We are committed to securing Australia's energy future by delivering infrastructure solutions for the energy transition and supporting the decarbonisation ambitions of our customers and communities.

Join our team and be part of securing Australia's energy future. APA is an equal opportunity employer. The safety, health and wellbeing of our people, communities and environment are a priority. We embrace diversity in our people to ensure our workforce represents the communities we operate in.

Applicants must be eligible to work in Australia to be considered. This vacancy involves working with critical APA data, systems or infrastructure and candidates may be subject to background vetting (including Police checks) before and during employment.

Role closes Friday, 5 September 2025. Role Reference Number JR3129

APA Group will not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies. We will contact successful candidates after the closing date.