Infrastructure Solicitor

Sellick Partnership; England; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onsite Parking

Much more

Job summary

A leading legal services provider in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Legal Advisor to provide high-quality legal support on commercial arrangements and projects for a major utility firm. The ideal candidate is a qualified lawyer with at least 10 years of experience and expertise in public procurement law. This role includes advising on contract law, drafting contracts, and supporting infrastructure projects. Competitive benefits such as onsite parking are included.

Qualifications

• Qualified lawyer with at least 10 years post-qualification experience.
• Expert knowledge of law and legal research techniques.
• Produces sound legal analysis.

Responsibilities

• Advise on legal ramifications of commercial arrangements and projects.
• Draft, negotiate and settle commercial contracts.
• Provide procurement and commercial legal guidance.

Skills

Legal judgement

Contract drafting

Public procurement law expertise

Commercial awareness

Education

Excellent degree qualification (2:1 or equivalent)

Job description

To provide high-quality commercial legal services to the Engineering & Capital Delivery function for a major utility company. Focused on the water resources infrastructure programme.

What you will be responsible for:

• Advising on the legal ramifications and structuring of a wide range of commercial arrangements and diverse capital /commercial projects, transactions and contracts.
• Drafting, negotiating and settling various forms of commercial contracts.
• Advising on the full regime of public procurement regulations and practical procurement issues, including acting as guardian of relevant legal policies and providing standardised procurement and commercial legal agreements.
• Advising the company on the legal ramifications and structuring of a wide range of often complex and expansive engineering and construction arrangements and diverse commercial projects, transactions and contracts (working with the Senior Commercial Solicitor).
• Focussing on the full remit of non-contentious (and some initial stages contentious) engineering and construction matters relating to infrastructure and non-infrastructure projects.

What you’ll bring to the role:

• Qualified lawyer (Solicitor/Barrister/Chartered Legal Executive), ideally with at least 10 years relevant post-qualification experience.
• Expert knowledge of law and legal research techniques, contract drafting and interpretation.
• Expertise in public procurement law and practice (knowledge of the new Direct Procurement for Customers regime highly desirable, but not essential).
• Has reliable legal judgement and appreciates legal risk.
• Produces sound analysis, using secure legal research.
• Highly developed commercial awareness.
• Excellent degree qualification (2:1 or equivalent), or satisfactory evidence of equivalent high-level academic and/or professional achievement.

Benefits for the role:

• Onsite Parking
• Much more

Please get in contact with David Scott if this could be of interest.