Country Legal Counsel

Hitachi ABB Power Grids; Selangor; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi ABB Power Grids seeks a Legal Counsel to join their team in Malaysia. This role involves providing strategic legal advice, supporting operations across the region, and ensuring compliance with regulations. The ideal candidate is a qualified lawyer with at least 5 years of experience in relevant sectors.

Benefits

Employer-sponsored medical plan

Employer provident fund (EPF)

Group Term Life insurance

Leave programs (Annual, medical, etc.)

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years' post-qualification experience in the energy, infrastructure, or technology sectors.
• Strong experience in contract negotiation and project development.
• Proactive and solution-oriented mindset.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic legal advice supporting business operations.
• Advise on contracts, corporate governance, and risk management.
• Ensure compliance with external and internal regulations.

Skills

Contract negotiation

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder management

Education

Qualified lawyer

Job description

At Hitachi Energy, we are advancing a sustainable energy future for all. As a global leader in power and automation technologies, we deliver innovative solutions across the entire energy value chain—from generation and transmission to distribution. Our technologies enhance the safety, reliability, and efficiency of power networks while minimizing environmental impact. We are at the forefront of transformative developments in ultra-high-voltage transmission, battery energy storage, and smart grid solutions. We are now seeking a Legal Counsel to join our dynamic team in Malaysia, supporting our operations across Singapore, Malaysia and Philippines. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to high-impact projects in a fast-paced, international environment.

How you’ll make an impact:

You will provide strategic, commercially focused legal advice to support business operations and ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.

You will advise on a wide range of legal matters including contracts, tenders, corporate governance, and risk management.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams across the region and globally to ensure legal alignment with business objectives.

You will ensure good corporate governance and adherence to integrity in the country including integrity training and ongoing monitoring of relevant policies.

You will be providing legal support on ancillary matters including but not limited to data protection, intellectual property, insurance, M&A, trade finance and company secretarial matters, monitoring legal affairs of the business within the country, including litigation case management and co-ordination with external counsel.

You will be responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures and guidelines.

Living Hitachi Energy's core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your background:

A qualified lawyer with minimum 5 years of post-qualification experience, ideally in the energy, infra-structure, or technology sectors.

Strong experience in contract negotiation, project development, and regulatory compliance.

Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

A proactive, solution-oriented mindset with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a global matrix organization.

More about us:

We pride ourselves on offering a holistic range of competitive benefit programs to support your financial, physical and mental wellbeing and personal development. We want you to truly thrive with us – in work and out. For this role, depending on grade and experience, we offer the following employee benefits (subject to the respective plan rules):

Employer-sponsored medical plan (inc. dental care)

Employer provident fund (EPF) – employer and employee

Group Term Life insurance, Group Personal Accident insurance, Group Business Travel insurance

Leave programs (Annual leave, medical leave, Hospitalization leave, Exam leave etc.)

*Benefits are subject to the respective plan rules.

We can provide more information during the recruitment process.

Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader that is advancing a sustainable energy future for all. We serve customers in the utility, industry and infrastructure sectors with innovative solutions and services across the value chain. Together with customers and partners, we pioneer technologies and enable the digital transformation required to accelerate the energy transition towards a carbon-neutral future.

We employ around 45,000 people in 90 countries who each day work with purpose and use their different backgrounds to challenge the status quo. We welcome you to apply today and be part of a global team that appreciates a simple truth: Diversity + Collaboration = Great Innovation.