Senior Counsel - Construction
- Employer
- BCL Legal In-House
- Location
- England, London
- Salary
- car allowance, bonus, benefits
- Closing date
- 12 Nov 2024
- Reference
- RB/137267
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- Vacancy Type
- Solicitors, In-House
- Experience Level
- Mid Level, Senior Level
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Practice Areas
- Construction
- PQE
- 7+ Years
Job Details
We are pleased to partner with Skanska UK as they look for a Senior Construction Lawyer to join their Legal team.
About Skanska:
Skanska, one of the world's leading project development and construction groups, is an inclusive and responsible business that is helping to build a better society.
Known for working on major projects, Skanska UK is building, upgrading, and maintaining the country's infrastructure for future generations.
Led by award winning Executive Vice President, Swati Paul, this established and highly regarded Legal team is seeking to add an additional lawyer to their ranks. The Legal team carries out all of the work on behalf of Skanska, ensuring a varied workload which has a real impact on the business.
We are looking for a Legal Counsel (Construction) to ensure provision of high-quality legal services, meeting all Skanska UK and Skanska AB requirements.
What you'll do:
· Provision of primary legal advice on varied and complex projects.
· Proactive and practical early advice to Skanska, Operating Units (OUs) and Enabling Functions (EFs) to help them achieve their goals in the commercial environment in which they operate.
· Follow up support to assist in the implementation of solutions to achieve those goals (e.g. assist in negotiation of documentation to close/complete the transaction and then offer "after care" follow up legal support until project has been built/concluded and full payment recovered.).
· Assisting with corporate governance compliance generally and with standard documents, training, policies and guidance as needed.
· Develop relationships with the OUs and EFs so that Legal are involved early and fully
· Work closely with the OU and EF personnel generally
· Early involvement in projects (whether invited or not)
· Transfer knowledge/best practice.
What you'll bring to the role:
· Senior level with a detailed level of understanding of construction law and the tendering processes.
· Good drafting and communication skills.
· A good working knowledge of related areas of commercial law (e.g. joint ventures, etc).
· Good understanding and experience of the forms of contracts commonly used and associated case law (particularly JCT and NEC3 and NEC4, but desirable to have experience with IChemE).
· Good understanding of construction techniques and processes.
· An ability to break a matter down to basics.
· An ability to communicate effectively with all levels of personnel and to talk their language.
· An ability to deliver a legal service to a business in a form they can readily understand and use.
· An ability to argue our case in formal negotiations in a logical and articulate manner.
· An understanding of the basic commercial management processes that should be employed on a project.
· An understanding of risk and risk identification and management techniques.
· Provide support and training to junior staff.
BCL Legal is an equal opportunities employer.
Company
BCL Legal - we are 100% focussed on finding the best lawyers on the market for leading companies based in England
- Every day since 2003 we have been building our knowledge of which lawyers exist in the market for permanent and temporary requirements.
- Over 8,000 ‘commercial lawyers’ have asked us to assist them with their career– our expertise is knowing who to call upon for each role that we assist.
- True experts in our field, with over 2,200 lawyers, company secretaries and compliance professionals placed in-house across the UK since 2003.
- Each consultant focuses on a particular location, which allows us to truly get to know the lawyers, legal teams and businesses in great detail.
- Unique involvement with the in-house legal community through free CPD seminars https://www.bcllegal.com/clients/events and other added value products.
- Professional and caring consultants who look to build long term relationships with both clients and candidate lawyers.
Some of the organisations we have assisted:
- Arriva
- Asda
- BAE Systems
- Bannatyne
- Bet365
- Bupa
- DHL
- Elior
- Hermes Parcelnet
- Holland & Barrett
- Ilke Homes
- LEVC
- London Luton Airport
- Mercedes Benz
- Michelin
- Molson Coors
- Rolls Royce
- Sodexo
- Zuto
To discuss your career in more detail and to find out about the positions we’re working on, please contact Mark Levine, Craig Wilson, Alison McKee, Tom Fleet, Josh Mcconnell or Ray Birkett.
Offices in Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds.
- Website
- http://www.bcllegal.com/
- Telephone
- 0161 819 7475
- Location
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Lancaster Buildings
3rd Floor, 77 Deansgate
Manchester
Greater Manchester
M3 2BW
United Kingdom
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