Hybrid Infrastructure Solicitor, Commercial

Posted 3 hours ago

Apply now

About the role

  • Infrastructure Solicitor providing high-quality commercial legal services to Southern Water's water resources projects. Advising on contracts, procurement, and legal frameworks for infrastructure initiatives.

Responsibilities

  • Advising on the legal ramifications and structuring of a wide range of commercial arrangements and diverse capital /commercial projects, transactions and contracts.
  • Drafting, negotiating and settling various forms of commercial contracts.
  • Advising on the full regime of public procurement regulations and practical procurement issues, including acting as guardian of relevant legal policies and providing standardised procurement and commercial legal agreements.
  • Advising the company on the legal ramifications and structuring of a wide range of often complex and expansive engineering and construction arrangements and diverse commercial projects, transactions and contracts (working with the Senior Commercial Solicitor).
  • Focussing on the full remit of non-contentious (and some initial stages contentious) engineering and construction matters relating to infrastructure and non-infrastructure projects.

Requirements

  • Qualified lawyer (Solicitor/Barrister/Chartered Legal Executive) ideally with at least 10 years relevant post-qualification experience
  • Expert knowledge of law and legal research techniques, contract drafting and interpretation
  • Expertise in public procurement law and practice (knowledge of new Direct Procurement for Customers regime highly desirable, but not essential)
  • Has reliable legal judgement and appreciates legal risk
  • Produces sound analysis, using secure legal research
  • Highly developed commercial awareness
  • Excellent degree qualification (2:1 or equivalent), or satisfactory evidence of equivalent high level academic and/or professional achievement

Benefits

  • Company and performance-related bonus
  • Generous pension with up to 11% company contribution
  • Life assurance payment equal to four times your annual salary
  • Health benefits through a Cash Plan
  • Two paid community volunteering days a year
  • 25 days annual holiday
  • Occupational health service
  • Retail discount app
  • Competitive maternity leave, and flexible return to work options

Job title

Infrastructure Solicitor, Commercial

Job type

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Professional Certificate

Location requirements

Report this job

See something inaccurate? Let us know and we'll update the listing.

Report job