Renewables Legal Counsel

6 days ago

United Kingdom EDF Energy Full time

Energise Your Career, Accelerate a Net-Zero Future #RenewablesJobs

The Opportunity
As Legal Counsel, you’ll be at the heart of shaping renewable energy projects, providing expert legal and strategic advice throughout every stage of development, construction, and operation. Your guidance will ensure projects are not only legally compliant but also positioned for success—securing critical resources such as land and cutting-edge technology while maintaining a balanced and acceptable risk profile.
This is an exciting opportunity to collaborate with cross-functional teams and make a tangible impact on the growth of renewable energy solutions. If you thrive in dynamic environments and have a passion for sustainability, this role is your chance to make a difference
Pay, benefits and culture


If you’re looking to join a company where you can work hard, have fun, and help to create a Net Zero future – then you’re in the right place’

Our passion for embracing new ideas and being open-minded to change helps us continue to grow successfully.

We’re committed to helping all of our people thrive during their time with us, recognising and rewarding every person for their hard work and commitment.

Alongside a competitive salary, bonus, and market-leading pension scheme, we offer a range of flexible benefits and employee discounts to help you thrive across all aspects of your life. You can spend your flexible fund on the benefits that matter to you, whether that’s an electric vehicle, private healthcare, additional holiday or one or more of our other benefits.

We’ll offer you the flexibility, freedom and responsibility to make an impact in your role; whether that’s on-site, in the office or hybrid working from home.

We’re committed to championing diversity representation across gender, ethnicity, LGBT+, disability and more. This applies to all our roles, underpinned by our Everyone’s Welcome inclusion programme.
We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need.


What you’ll be doing


This role is a new onshore wind Scottish property law focused role. A key challenge for this role is to facilitate every project to achieve its objectives, while also ensuring that all legal risks are mitigated, and wider business interests are protected. You’ll also;

  • Draft and negotiate appropriate commercial positions on all required land related contracts in line with the needs of each project.
  • Ensure EDF Renewables UK and Ireland’s compliance with aspects of key project land related contracts.
  • Act as a partner to project owners, providing timely legal and strategic advice. Ensure all project deadlines are met to gain buy in.
  • Anticipate legal and business impacts of legal advice and recommendations, whilst providing commercially appropriate solutions to complex issues.
  • Identify risks/mitigations for investment committee, when responding to questions from General Counsel and to assist FID (Final Investment Decision).
  • Instruct, receive and interpret external legal advice procured from specialist lawyers and other related service to be used by non-legal specialists in commercial teams.
  • Lead specialist legal projects.
  • Contribute to the maintenance of key corporate and legal documentation, including precedent legal documents, database and physical signed contracts and EDF Group policies and procedures.
  • Share knowledge with the broader legal team and potentially supporting other technologies such as offshore wind, solar and hydrogen

What do you need to be great at this role?

You’ll ideally have around four plus years post qualification experience and have previous exposure working within the renewable energy sector or another similar environment.

  • Have experience of drafting and negotiating complex land related contracts.
  • Possess substantial knowledge and experience in dealing with the laws and regulations of UK and/or Ireland jurisdictions, particularly with regard to the energy industry and renewable project development.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and be willing to share the cultural values of EDF Group, of honesty, integrity and cooperation.
  • Be able to work with EDF-R shareholders’ respective legal departments, request their support when necessary and report on activities on a regular basis.
  • Analyse legal issues and provide comprehensive and practical legal advice to all levels of management throughout the company, becoming a valued partner.
  • Can maintain a clear head and efficient manner throughout periods of increased pressure and are accustomed to a fast paced working environment.
  • Be detail oriented and meticulous with efficient communication skills (both written and verbal) supported by strong legal research and drafting skills.

Closing date for applications: 10th of January 2025
Location: Based from one of our offices in the UK – Edinburgh, Durham or London. We're proud to offer a Flexible First approach to work meaning you can work comfortably from home with our offices as your base location.

Why EDF Renewables?

At EDF Renewables UK & Ireland we’re committed to tackling climate change. Our rapidly growing team of 600 talented people share an ambition to create a net zero future where clean, green, energy powers all our lives.


It’s a huge ambition and time is of the essence if we are to play our full part in meeting the UK and Ireland’s challenging net zero targets. With our unique mix of technologies including onshore and offshore wind, solar PV, battery storage and green hydrogen we are the UK & Ireland’s most diverse generator of renewable energy.


To achieve our goal of generating a massive 10GW of renewable energy by 2035, we’re working with stakeholders and communities throughout the UK and Ireland to unlock the enormous potential of the low carbon energy sector.


If you’re passionate about tackling climate change to create the cleaner, greener future we all want, we would love you to come join us.

Join us, and let’s do good together.

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