Legal Counsel

1 month ago

City of Westminster, United Kingdom CV-Library Full time

At Colas Rail, we have over one hundred years of experience in delivering major innovations across our sector. Every day, thousands of train run on tracks built or maintained by Colas Rail. We deliver on the challenges set by a rapidly changing railway environment - constantly seeking to adapt our behaviour and culture to not only meet and exceed the expectations of our customers and stakeholders, but to also continuously develop and support our people.

Purpose of the role We have a new vacancy for a construction legal counsel to support the Head of Legal in addressing the UK HQ and divisional-wide legal needs of the business. This is a much broader commercial role than typical for a construction legal counsel reflecting the innovative multi-disciplinary approach of the business.

Key Responsibilities
Support the business in addressing its legal needs across a spectrum of legal areas including construction, commercial, and procurement.
As a Legal Counsel, you will be responsible for the delivery of commercially focused, legal advice and support to the business.
Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of commercial, construction and engineering agreements. 
Familiarity with key standard form of construction contracts including NEC. 
Involvement in managing disputes from time to time.
Dealing with ad-hoc property matters. 
Assisting in delivering or facilitating training within the Procurement Team and, where appropriate, across the business.
Involvement in Data Protection and liaising with Company Data Protection Officer.
Reviewing, drafting and amending various policies and standard form contracts from time to time.
Assisting with the legal training and development of other members of the legal team. Person Specification
Qualified to practice in England. 
Minimum 2 years’ PQE experience in non-contentious construction law from a top 100 law firm. 
Experience in disputes is desirable but not essential. 
Confident working independently with minimal supervision. 
Ability to identify risk from both a commercial and legal perspective and assist with finding creative solutions.
Strong ability to communicate and to balance, priorities and manage a diverse workload. 
Ideal for those looking to make the move from private practice to in-house in a flexible and friendly working environment and a supportive team culture

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