Senior Principal Counsel - DoD Contracts

L3Harris Technologies, Inc.; Texas; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

L3Harris is seeking a Sr. Principal, Counsel to provide proactive legal guidance to the ISR sector. You will partner with sector leadership on risk management, contract interpretation, and complex legal matters, while negotiating and drafting critical agreements.

Requires a JD, active license, U.S. citizenship, and extensive experience with government contracts, aircraft purchasing, and maintenance agreements. Position is 100% on site in multiple TX locations.

Qualifications

• JD degree and active state license to practice law.
• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• 15 years of experience managing contracts, aircraft purchasing, and MRO agreements.
• Graduate degree with 13 years of related experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic legal counsel to ISR sector management and staff.
• Negotiate and draft contracts, memoranda, legal documents, and correspondence.
• Ensure compliance with global, federal, state, and local laws and corporate policies.
• Collaborate with operations, subcontracts, and supply chain leadership.
• Monitor and resolve day-to-day legal and regulatory issues.
• Maintain knowledge of current laws, regulations, and trends.

Skills

Negotiation

Risk assessment

Contract interpretation

Cross-functional partnership

Ethics and compliance

Education

Juris Doctor (JD)

Graduate degree

State license to practice law

U.S. Citizenship

Job description

Job Title: Sr. Principal, Counsel

Job Code: 44085

Job Location: Greenville TX, Plano TX, Waco TX, or Rockwall TX (100% on site)

Job Schedule: 1st Shift 9/80

Job Description:

L3Harris is seeking an experienced, proactive, and solutions-focused Sr. Principal, Counselto join the Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) sector.Reporting to the Senior Director, Counsel of the sector, this role operates as a legal specialist and business partner in providing strategic, proactive, and practical legal counsel and guidance to sector management and staff on general and specialized legal matters.

Essential Functions:

• Partners with leaders to assess, predict, and manage legal and other risks in a growing business operating internationally
• Advises, counsels, and functions as a trusted business partner on legal and other matters related to the business objectives of the sector
• Provides legal guidance and counseling on risk mitigation strategies, contract interpretation and provisions, dispute resolution, and other legal issues
• Negotiates, researches, drafts, revises, and / or analyzes agreements, contracts, memoranda, legal correspondence, and other legal documents
• Engages in factual investigation, analyzes complex legal and factual issues, conducts extensive legal research, independently develops, recommends, and presents strategies on a wide range of legal matters
• Ensures that sector practices and procedures comply with global, federal, state and local laws and regulations, and are consistent with applicable corporate policies and procedures
• Engages with customer counterparts as reasonably required in support of addressing certain complex legal / business transactional matters
• Collaborates with operational, subcontracts and supply chain leadership to ensure that contractual and operational risks assumed by the business are flowed down to subcontractors and suppliers
• Monitors, reviews, and resolves day-to day legal and regulatory issues as they are assigned
• Maintains knowledge of current and emerging laws, regulations, and trends.
• Government contracts experience within the US DoD market, including both U.S. and international government and commercial customers.
• Experience in aircraft purchasing, strong negotiation and dispute resolution skills are required.
• Personal commitment to ethics and compliance, and experience working in an environment with high ethical standards.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret Clearance.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree with 15 years of extensive experience managing contracts, aircraft purchasing agreements, and complex maintenance repair and overhaul agreements.
• Graduate degree with 13 years of extensive experience managing contracts, aircraft purchasing agreements, and complex maintenance repair and overhaul agreements.
• Must have a Doctorate (JD) degree and an active state license to practice law.

Preferred Skills:

• Active Secret clearance.

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