Legal Counsel London, England
Job description
Legal Counsel
Do you want to Step into a dynamic role that lets you thrive in a strategic legal environment? Are you ready to fuel our legal endeavours and leave your mark on ground-breaking projects? Join us as a Legal Counsel and make your impact felt on the energy landscape.
The Opportunity
As a Legal Counsel at EDF Energy, you'll be part of our Governance and Legal Affairs Directorate, a vital force in shaping and managing our business. Your canvas will be the impactful projects that lead the charge in low carbon generation, including the Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C new nuclear power stations. These initiatives aren't just monumental in scale; they're at the forefront of the UK's climate change agenda and energy policy. With locations in Bristol and London, this position also offers opportunities for travel within Europe.
Pay, benefits and culture
Alongside a competitive salary range and a market-leading pension scheme, we offer a range of flexible benefits to support our people across all aspects of their lives.
Your rewards package includes a choice of benefits, such as electric vehicle leasing, enhanced parental leave, health insurance, discounts and employee pricing.
Flexible working means you can work from home (if you wish) and we’ll provide a suite of IT equipment to ensure that you can work remotely comfortably and effectively.
Emma Brown, Legal Counsel says “Since I have joined EDF I’ve really appreciated the focus on balancing the demands of the role with achieving a good work-life balance and fostering good mental health. Simple things like confirming that if you do not want to have your camera on in a video meeting, that is ok, or assurances that we can go to our supervisors with any personal issue we may be having. When I have worked particularly hard on a project involving working into the late hours, this has been reflected with flexibility elsewhere in the working week and my personal non-working time is respected.”
At EDF, everyone’s welcome. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone has a voice and where you feel confident being yourself. We’re committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.
We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application, adjusting as you need.
We’ll value the difference you bring and offer opportunities for you to thrive and succeed.
What you’ll be doing
Your role is to power up our legal efforts by partnering with the Head of Legal. Your proactive and preventive legal service will fuel the success of our business units.
Dive into the heart of our new nuclear projects being accountable for the following:
- Providing a timely, preventive, and commercially relevant legal advice to the business unit on a broad range of matters including the management of JV arrangements, key commercial contracts, arrangements with Government and shareholders, general advice on other planning or regulatory matters, governance and compliance requirements and avoidance and/or management of any disputes.
- Drafting, negotiating, and providing advice on the management of key contracts required by the applicable to the business unit.
- Supporting the applicable business unit in proactively identifying potential disputes or claims, avoiding such disputes or claims and successfully managing any formal dispute.
- To be aware of or research legislative changes that may impact the applicable business unit and share the same across the legal team and business unit as appropriate including through delivery of training courses.
- Managing matters for the applicable business unit, including the appointment and instruction of external law firms where required
Who you are
You're a qualified solicitor admitted in England and Wales, equipped with relevant post-qualification experience.
Your legal acumen is well-rounded, preferably with a touch of projects sector expertise.
Communication skills are sharp, both in speech and writing. The pressure of deadlines is where you thrive, juggling multiple tasks with finesse.
Flexibility defines you, as you're keen to expand your legal horizons and support various teams. Your organized, methodical approach keeps chaos at bay, and you're no stranger to the MS Office suite.
If this sounds like you, we’d love you to get in touch.
Closing Date: 24/08/23
Location: London/Bristol
Join us and together we can help Britain achieve Net Zero.
