Senior Legal Counsel

Job Description

Join a global professional services leader. We are committed to solving the world's biggest challenges in the areas of water, energy and urbanization.

GHD is one of the world's leading professional services firms providing engineering, environmental and construction services and advisory and digital solutions to private and public sector clients. GHD North America is part of a connected global network of more than 9,500 people operating in 200+ offices across five continents. Privately owned by our employees, GHD's formula for success is simple - we build strong relationships, exceed the expectations of our clients and create lasting community benefit.

GHD has an opportunity for a Senior Legal Counsel operating out GHD's Phoenix, Arizona; Chicago, Illinois; or Houston, Texas offices, reporting directly to GHD's Assistant General Counsel, US. The successful candidate will join a collegial 20 person North American Legal, Risk & Compliance Team and provide support to an entrepreneurial 3,700 person strong North American business.

As part of the Legal, Risk & Compliance Team in the capacity of Counsel-US, the successful candidate will be responsible for the following duties:

• Undertaking contract drafting, review and negotiation and advising regarding project pursuit in support of GHD's US professional engineering and consulting business;
• Owning legal and risk support for GHD's US based construction business;
• Managing project disputes, potential claims and litigation matters, both directly and with local external counsel, and occasionally attending at mediations or hearings; and
• Advising GHD's internal client base in respect of a host of ad hoc legal, risk and compliance matters, including: legislative compliance; employment law and corporate policies; real estate; Federal contracting; intellectual property; privacy, data security, management and data breach response, and anti-spam compliance; subpoena response; mergers and acquisitions; etc.

The successful candidate will possess the following required qualifications, experience, and skills:

• Law degree from accredited law school;
• Must be qualified to practice law in the United States;
• 5-10 years of experience gained in a law firm or corporate legal department;
• Significant experience in commercial transactional matters, with a preferred focus on construction/design professionals;
• Superior drafting, analytical, organization, time management, and task prioritization skills;
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to interact effectively and efficiently with members of GHD's Legal, Risk & Compliance Team, internal clients, and clients' in-house and external counsel;
• Demonstrated problem-solving, negotiation, drafting, and conflict resolution skills;
• Ability to travel as needed (amount varies from infrequent up to 5%).

About Us

Why GHD?

Being the best we can be is in our culture.

We are a family of smart, innovative and creative problem solvers. In our employee-owned company, everything feels like it matters more. Challenge us and help us come up with new solutions to ensure water, energy and urbanisation are made sustainable for generations to come.

More about Life and Work @GHD

Our commitment to you

Commitment is a powerful word that defines how we do business, how we serve our clients and how we care for one another. We will support your needs by giving you the tools to do your best work and then recognise achievements. We will set your curiosity free to allow brilliant minds to do their best work. We will invest in new ideas, removing barriers where we can. Finally, we will encourage you to collaborate with thousands of diverse people across our global business.

Our Commitment to you

Who we are

We are committed to solving the world's biggest challenges in the areas of water, energy and urbanisation. GHD is a global professional services company that is a leader in engineering, construction and architectural expertise. Established in 1928, we remain wholly owned by our people. We are 10,000+ diverse and skilled individuals, yet we are proudly 'One GHD' across more than 200 offices, spanning five continents - Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America, and the Pacific region. Delivering extraordinary social and economic outcomes, we are passionate about building lasting relationships with our partners and clients.

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