Senior Legal Counsel – Major Projects

Perth Airport; Western Australia; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free parking

Dynamic team culture

Competitive remuneration package

Job summary

A leading Australian airport is seeking a Senior Legal Counsel to provide expert legal support across major capital works. The ideal candidate will have 8+ years of legal experience, particularly in construction and project delivery. Responsibilities include offering strategic legal advice, managing complex contracts, and assessing legal risks. This role offers a supportive team culture and competitive benefits, including free parking.

Qualifications

• 8+ years experience in private practice or in-house legal role.
• Proven ability to deliver strategic, timely and commercially sound legal advice.
• Strong experience in construction, engineering or major project legal work.
• Strong experience in construction, engineering or major project legal work.
• Able to deliver strategic, timely and commercially sound legal advice.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic legal advice across major project procurement and delivery activities.
• Draft, review, negotiate and administer complex commercial contracts.
• Identify legal, project and operational risks and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Support claims management, contract administration and dispute-related matters.
• Advise the business on WHS, planning, environment, privacy, property and insurance.
• Manage external legal advisors and ensure quality, value and consistency of advice.
• Contribute to legal governance, policy development, training materials and stakeholder education.
• Support the preparation of reports and Board, Executive and Committee papers when required.

Skills

Strategic legal advice

Contract negotiation

Risk assessment

Claims management

Collaboration

Team collaboration

Education

Law degree from an Australian institution

Job description

Perth Airport is Australia’s Western Hub connecting the people, businesses and communities of Western Australia with the rest of Australia and the world. Operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week throughout the year, Perth Airport plays a significant role in providing economic, social and cultural benefits to West Australians.

Perth Airport is investing more than $5 billion in new infrastructure so we can support our airline partners to grow, offering more services to new destinations and an improved customer experience. This will be the largest funded private equity build in Western Australia for the last 30 years.

Over the coming decade we will expand T1 International, and build new domestic terminal facilities, a parallel runway, two multi-storey carparks and our first airport hotel. This will deliver one airport for the people of Western Australia which will host all flight services in a central location giving passengers a seamless, world-class travel experience.

The Perth Airport estate is spread over 2100 hectares and has developed a $1.5 billion portfolio of existing industrial premises and significant vacant land holdings.

We service a truly diverse community and play an important role in strengthening cultural, family and social bonds while supporting business, tourism and leisure travel.

We are on the lookout for a Senior Legal Counsel to provide expert legal support across Perth Airport’s major capital works portfolio. In this role, you will partner with project, commercial and leadership teams to deliver practical, timely and commercially sound legal advice across procurement, contracts, claims, risk and project delivery.

What you’ll do:

• Provide strategic legal advice across major project procurement and delivery activities.
• Draft, review, negotiate and administer complex commercial contracts and legal documents.
• Identify legal, project and operational risks and recommend practical mitigation strategies.
• Support claims management, contract administration and dispute-related matters as they arise.
• Advise the business on areas including WHS, planning, environment, privacy, property and insurance.
• Manage external legal advisors and help ensure quality, value and consistency of advice.
• Contribute to legal governance, policy development, training materials and stakeholder education.
• Support the preparation of reports and Board, Executive and Committee papers when required.

About you:

• You completed a Law degree from an Australian institution or equivalent.
• You hold a current practising certificate, or you are eligible to obtain one.
• 8+ years experience in private practice or an in-house legal role.
• Strong experience in construction, engineering or major project legal work.
• Proven ability to deliver strategic, timely and commercially sound legal advice across project delivery.
• You are confident preparing contracts, legal risk assessments and written legal advice.
• You build strong working relationships and bring discretion, integrity and sound judgement.
• You are collaborative, adaptable and able to work autonomously in a complex environment.

About Us:

We offer a dynamic and supportive team culture, a contemporary workplace with great facilities and a modern approach to work/life integration. Our competitive remuneration package comes with additional company benefits including free parking.

Perth Airport is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We are committed to building an equitable and diverse workforce representative of the community we serve. We encourage and welcome applications from all communities and backgrounds.

Doing the right thing by the planet and future generations is important to us. At PAPL we place a strong emphasis on embedding sustainability throughout our business strategy and operations. We remain steadfast in our commitment to driving ESPG (Environmental, Social, People, Governance) performance across our value chain and areas that have material environmental and social impact.

If this sounds like you please get in touch.