Senior Counsel, New Homes Solar & Construction

Qcells North America; United States; On-site; USD 154,000 - 231,000; Full time

Job summary

Hanwha Q CELLS America is seeking a Senior Counsel to support its New Homes business, focusing on master services agreements and consumer-related solar homeownership matters. The role reports to the Assistant General Counsel and sits among a 25-person legal team in Irvine, CA.

You will negotiate and draft commercial agreements, advise on construction and California solar law, and collaborate cross-functionally to drive timely legal projects that align with growth plans for direct-to-homeowner

Qualifications

• 6+ years experience
• Top law firm training preferred
• In-house experience, preferably with broad range of responsibilities
• Extensive experience with New Homes builders, particularly New Homes builders in California.
• Experience working for a direct-to-homeowner solar sales and financing business or other clean energy or global technology company is a plus
• Strong judgment and effective communication with business colleagues, particularly the ability to explain risks in a manner that is digestible to a non-attorney audience.

Responsibilities

• Primarily support contracts and general legal support for Qcells New Homes business line, with a focus on Master Services Agreements with New Homes builders, and solar consumer-related agreements for new homeowners.
• Negotiate, draft and review various commercial agreements with New Homes builders, customers, suppliers, partners and other third-party agreements.
• Extensive experience with construction law, California law on solar in the New Homes context, and consumer-related topics for new homeowners in the New Homes context.
• Ability to project manage, and effectively collaborate across cross-functional teams in order to proactively advance assigned legal projects to completion in a timely manner that aligns with our business objectives and growth plans.
• Create legal and commercial forms and processes and educate the business on important legal and commercial matters

Skills

Legal experience

Negotiation

Communication

Construction law

Job description

Hanwha Q CELLS America is seeking a Senior Counsel to support its New Homes business, focusing on master services agreements and consumer-related solar homeownership matters. The role reports to the Assistant General Counsel and sits among a 25-person legal team in Irvine, CA.

You will negotiate and draft commercial agreements, advise on construction and California solar law, and collaborate cross-functionally to drive timely legal projects that align with growth plans for direct-to-homeowner