Senior In-House Counsel

7 days ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia beBeeLegal Full time $120,000 - $150,000
About SMEC

SMEC provides unique opportunities to work on iconic industry projects with experienced colleagues and leadership teams. We support and empower employees to drive innovation initiatives within a well-established and growing organisation.

Every employee plays a key role in shaping our business and is driven by teamwork, progressive thinking and creative ideas. We are committed to providing platforms to enable our people to engage in the business, deliver value to clients and develop their careers.

Role Description:

We have a rare opportunity for an innovative legal counsel to join our team in Sydney on a full-time basis. This role would suit someone looking to make the move in-house, will have a national remit and is predominantly responsible for providing legal services and expertise to SMEC's Australia and New Zealand Division to ensure that all operations of the organisation are compliant with relevant legislation.

The successful candidate will be responsible for undertaking extensive contract reviews and negotiations on proposed contracts and tenders with clients and sub-consultants for small, mid and large-scale projects; PPPs, Alliances and D&C projects. They will also review and advise on other agreements and related issues such as subcontracts, teaming agreements, memoranda of understanding, joint ventures, leases, insurance coverage and probity arrangements.

Key Responsibilities Include:

  • Undertaking extensive contract reviews and negotiations on proposed contracts and tenders with clients and sub-consultants for small, mid and large-scale projects;
  • Reviewing and advising on other agreements and related issues;
  • Providing legal advice on liability and risk identification, allocation and management;
  • Providing independent legal advice on contractual issues and claims or potential claims by or against SMEC to project managers and regional management;
  • Working in collaboration with the Director - Commercial and Legal Services, Group Director - Insurance and Compliance Director;
  • Liaising with Group Director - Insurance on questions of insurance coverage and contractual undertakings relating to insurance;
  • Advising and assisting debt collection activities;
  • Providing advice on matters arising in the performance and administration of contracts;
  • Assisting with delivery of contracts training across the business;
  • Providing input and assistance when standard documentation and user guides are reviewed and developed;
  • Promote compliance with group-wide legal and risk policies and procedures within the business;
  • Identification and reporting of non-compliances across the business;
  • Participating with Divisional management and SMEC Corporate teams in policy and procedure development (as requested);
  • Identifying areas of improvement for the Division's legal and commercial practices and liaise with Business Unit Directors, Market Directors, National Managers and State Sector/Local Sector Managers to develop solutions for clients;
  • Working to foster positive working relationships with external clients while still acting to protect SMEC's interests;
  • Identifying internal client needs and seeks to address their reasonable requirements.

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