Corporate Counsel
About the Opportunity
Our client is a growing engineering, environmental, and project services organization seeking an attorney to serve as a key legal advisor to business leaders, project teams, and operational stakeholders. This role offers the opportunity to work directly with decision-makers across the organization, providing practical legal guidance on contracts, claims, risk management, and project execution matters.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as a trusted legal advisor to project management, operations, engineering, and business leadership teams.
- Draft, review, negotiate, and interpret a wide variety of construction and commercial agreements.
- Support projects from proposal and pursuit stage through completion and closeout.
- Review RFPs, contract terms, and project documentation to identify and mitigate legal and commercial risks.
- Advise stakeholders on change orders, scope modifications, project execution challenges, and contractual obligations.
- Assist with the resolution of project disputes involving delays, cost overruns, performance issues, differing site conditions, and other construction-related claims.
- Partner with risk management and insurance teams to evaluate exposure and develop risk mitigation strategies.
- Manage outside counsel and support litigation, arbitration, mediation, and other dispute resolution matters as needed.
- Develop practical legal solutions that balance business objectives with appropriate risk management.
- Provide training and guidance on contract administration, compliance, ethics, and legal best practices.
- Support corporate governance initiatives, company policies, and other legal department projects.
- Advise leadership on strategic initiatives and legal risks affecting business operations.
Qualifications
- Juris Doctor (J.D.) and active California Bar membership.
- Experience supporting construction, engineering, environmental, infrastructure, or related project-driven industries.
- Strong background drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial and construction-related contracts.
- Experience advising business leaders and project teams on legal strategy and risk management.
- Familiarity with construction claims, dispute resolution, and litigation management.
- Strong communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work cross-functionally and provide practical business-focused counsel.
Preferred Experience
- EPC, design-build, professional services, consulting, subcontractor, supplier, or engineering-related agreements.
- Construction claims involving delays, disruptions, acceleration, scope changes, differing site conditions, and cost overruns.
- Experience working with contractors, engineering firms, environmental services companies, or project-based organizations.
- Knowledge of insurance, indemnity, warranties, limitation of liability provisions, and commercial risk allocation.
- Prior in-house experience supporting operational and project teams.
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