Legal Counsel - NAM

Job Description Job Title: Legal Counsel Reporting to: Head of Legal and Contract Management NAM Location: Raleigh, NC Overview: This is an in-house legal counsel position supporting Linxon US, LLC’s Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) business in the Americas.
This role reports to the Head of Legal and Contract Management for Linxon, US, LLC.
You will provide the US business unit with expert advice on all aspects of its EPC business in supporting sales/tender teams in the negotiating and drafting EPC agreements, advising supply chain management in connection with negotiation/drafting of key supplier subcontracts, working with the project implementation organization to manage and resolve project claims.
What will you do? Advising clients in connection with the negotiation and drafting of EPC contracts for utility grid infrastructure projects.
Managing and resolving commercial/legal claims related to such projects.
Support and provide advice to Linxon in all legal matters, but primarily in the areas of sales/procurement contracting, claims management, and dispute resolution.
Research the licensing requirements applicable to Linxon’s business, advise Linxon of such requirements, and support the business in obtaining and maintaining such licensure for bids and projects in various states.
Analyze contracts considering corporate guidelines and policies as well as the commercial and legal risks material to project stakeholders.
Providing training with respect to internal Linxon regulations as well as legal or commercial concepts important to Linxon business interests.
Support with respect to integrity matters.
Provide legal advice and opinions on risks and related commercial issues.
Participate in the negotiation process of various contracts with clients, joint ventures, subcontractors, and suppliers.
Interpret laws, decrees and any other document of a legal nature, ensuring that the interests of the corporation are adequately protected.
Participate in the application and follow up of the corporations’ policies, procedures, and internal rules.
Experience required: Attorney with 8 to 12 years of experience who has worked for a law firm (or in-house) on behalf of clients in the construction industry.
Member in good standing of a bar association in one of the fifty states of the United States.
Excellent proficiency in English, professional proficiency in Spanish is a particular benefit, but proficiency in any other languages is a plus.
Excellent oral and written communication skills are a must.
Experience supporting utility construction projects or clients engaged in heavy industrial manufacturing (particularly power system products) is a big plus.
Must be capable of working as part of a small close-knit team in a demanding, fast-paced, multilingual, and multidisciplinary environment.
Experience implementing sophisticated communication plans for the purposes of achieving strategic company objectives.
Self-motivated leader who can be flexible in the development of commercially practical solutions.
Comfortable preparing and delivering high-quality legal advice within expedited time frames.
Education Required: Juris Doctorate from an accredited U.
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law school Competencies/ Skills Required: The Legal Counsel must possess strong communication skills and excel at collaboration.
In crafting and delivering legal advice, the Legal Counsel must be able to maintain their attention to detail while supplying advice that does not lose sight of the broader strategic goals of Linxon.
The Legal Counsel must be able to operate independently, make decisions, and help drive projects to conclusion.
The Legal Counsel must be prepared to directly communicate unpopular information and to hold others (including executive management) accountable, as needed.
The Legal Counsel should possess a business-driven, pragmatic mindset, and should understand that good results are achieved through company-wide cooperation, both with our internal and external partners.
The Legal Counsel must possess and demonstrate first-hand experience drafting and negotiating EPC contracts and must have a keen understanding of the risks and issues involved in the same.
Personal Qualities Required: Resilient and flexible achiever Driven by value added and business sustainability Calm under pressure in a constantly changing environment Assertive, decisive, confident Excellent listener Proactive and self-disciplined Leading by example, with strong values Team player Passionate to succeed.
Willingness to learn About Linxon Shaping energy solutions to empower sustainable connectivity.
We combine Hitachi ABB Power Grids deep technological knowledge and Atkins Realis’s project management expertise to create a company dedicated to substations – we are Linxon.
Linxon’s vision is to deliver the best market offering for turnkey substation projects through world-class power technologies and delivering the highest level of competence in managing infrastructure projects.
As a leading engineering company, we help our customers with turnkey substation solutions in the field of power transmission, renewable energy and transportation.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to be part of a new company as it evolves and help shape it for the future.
If you like new challenges, have an entrepreneurial spirit and are interested in working with other motivated professionals with expertise in the Substations EPC business, then this is the new opportunity for you.
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be/0CB3IKbcxbs Worker Type Employee Job Type Regular At Linxon, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives.
We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.