Counsel / Senior Counsel — Commercial & Regulatory

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for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must include sections only when posting has real specific content. Let's parse. Posting includes: - Intro paragraph about Sylvan and role description: could be "About the role". Should we include that? Yes. - Essential Duties & Responsibilities: list of duties. That's responsibilities. - Required Skills & Experience: that's requirements/qualifications/skills. We need to decide which headings to use. The instruction: use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can have multiple headings but only if content present. We have "Required Skills & Experience" which includes both required and preferred qualifications. Could split into Requirements and Preferred Qualifications? But we have only headings list: Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. Might combine. We also have "What We Offer": that's benefits etc. It includes: opportunity to help build..., broad work..., potential for incentive units..., competitive base salary..., comprehensive benefits..., collaborative culture... So we have Benefits, maybe Pay (salary). The posting mentions "Competitive base salary and performance-based bonus, commensurate with experience." That's pay info but it's vague "commensurate with experience". According to instruction: never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. The phrase "competitive base salary and performance-based bonus, commensurate with experience." is somewhat vague but still states there is a competitive base salary and performance-based bonus. Is that considered filler? It says "commensurate with experience" which is a placeholder. The instruction says never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", ...). So we should not create a Pay section if the only pay info is "commensurate with experience". However they also say "competitive base salary and performance-based bonus". That's somewhat specific but still includes "commensurate with experience". Might be considered filler. Safer to omit Pay section. Benefits: they list comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, retirement plan with company contribution, paid time off. That's specific enough. So we can have Benefits section. Schedule: not mentioned. So omit. Qualifications: we have Required Skills & Experience (including required and preferred). Could split into Requirements (required) and Qualifications (preferred). But we have headings Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. Could use Requirements for required, Qualifications for preferred, Skills for skills list. However the posting lumps skills and experience together. Might be better to have a single "Requirements" section containing both required and preferred? But we need to avoid filler headings. If we put Qualifications heading but only have preferred qualifications, that's okay if there is content. Similarly Skills heading maybe redundant. We could do:

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We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID. We must remove boilerplate: EEO, Apply Today, etc. We must preserve all substantive information. Let's extract content. About the role: The introductory paragraphs before "Essential Duties & Responsibilities". Let's capture: "Back to Careers Counsel / Senior Counsel — Commercial & Regulatory Sylvan is a premier AI-enabled construction services platform powering North American industries through a wide range of multi-trade capabilities. With expertise spanning data centers, energy, automotive, higher education, government, retail, commercial and industrial sectors, Sylvan provides advanced services from planning to project execution and ongoing service maintenance. By combining intelligent technology, expertise, and a commitment to safety and quality, Sylvan is dedicated to driving success for its clients and partners. We are seeking an experienced Commercial & Regulatory Attorney to play a pivotal role as the second attorney in our newly created in-house legal team. Reporting to the General Counsel, this attorney will focus primarily on two critical areas of responsibility across the company and its divisions, including future businesses acquired through the company’s programmatic M&A. These responsibilities are core to our strategic growth objectives: (1) serving as the company’s primary enterprise-wide legal resource to support the business with the negotiation, drafting, and contract lifecycle management of our construction project agreements and other commercial contracts, and (2) advising on, coordinating, and proactively enhancing our industrial construction regulatory compliance program across North America, in partnership with operational owners and outside counsel. This is a high-visibility, exciting role in a lean legal department of a high growth business. The successful candidate will work directly at all levels within the organization, including executives, project managers, estimators, pre-construction teams, and operations leaders. Sylvan operates a decentralized business model across multiple jurisdictions and operating entities, and this role therefore requires regular engagement with field and business unit personnel, including periodic travel to project sites, subsidiary offices, and partner locations in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico." We can keep that as About the role. Responsibilities: Under "Essential Duties & Responsibilities" there are two subheadings: Commercial & Construction Contracts and Legal Department & Enterprise Support and Construction Regulatory & Compliance. We need to list duties as bullet points. Let's extract bullet points: Commercial & Construction Contracts: - Draft, review, and negotiate a high volume of critical construction and commercial agreements, including prime contracts, subcontracts, master service agreements, purchase orders, design-build, equipment leases, professional services agreements, and vendor and supplier contracts. - Advise on key contract risk areas, including indemnification, insurance, warranties, limitations of liability, liquidated damages, consequential damages, payment and retainage terms, change orders, scheduling and delay provisions, force majeure, termination rights, dispute resolution, and other key terms. - Proactively lead contract lifecycle management, including intake, triage, risk escalation, and approval workflows; contribute to the development and continuous improvement of templates and negotiation playbooks; provide leadership to evaluate and implement fit-for-purpose AI and other technology tools. - Counsel business teams on bid and proposal terms, flow-down obligations from owners and general contractors, and contract close-out practices. - Assist with claims avoidance and pre-litigation dispute management, including payment disputes, mechanics’ liens and bond claim strategy, and coordination with outside counsel. Legal Department & Enterprise Support: - Partner with the General Counsel on various corporate and legal operations initiatives as the legal shared service function continues to grow. - Support the General Counsel on acquisitions and other strategic transactions, including diligence, transaction documentation, closing coordination, and post-closing legal integration, as needs and experience permit. - Manage and coordinate outside counsel to support the core responsibilities of the role as needed, with attention to expense management, responsiveness and work product quality. - Travel periodically to project sites, subsidiary offices, and partner locations to support business teams and build relationships across our decentralized organization. Construction Regulatory & Compliance: - Coordinate and advise on federal, state/provincial, and local regulatory requirements affecting industrial construction operations in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, including contractor and trade licensing, permitting, and registration requirements. - Provide legal counsel on prevailing wage and public works requirements (including Davis-Bacon and state equivalents) and, in coordination with the company’s safety, human resources, and operational teams, on OSHA/workplace safety and project-site and company facility environmental regulatory matters. - Support compliance with lien, bond, and security-of-payment regimes across multiple jurisdictions, including notice deadlines and preservation of rights. - Monitor legal and regulatory developments affecting the industrial construction industry across North America and translate them into practical guidance, training, and policy updates for business teams. - Support cross-border commercial matters, including coordination with local counsel in Canada and Mexico on jurisdiction-specific contracting and regulatory questions. We'll combine all into one Responsibilities list. Requirements (required): From "Required Skills & Experience" first part: - Juris Doctor from an accredited law school and active membership in good standing in at least one U.S. state bar; Michigan bar admission (or eligibility for admission, including via reciprocity or in-house counsel registration) required within a reasonable period after hire, as required. - At least 5 years of relevant legal experience at a law firm, in-house legal department, or a combination of both. - Substantial experience drafting and negotiating a range of complex commercial agreements and advising corporate clients. - Experience building or improving contract templates, playbooks, and legal intake and workflow processes, including the use of contract lifecycle management and AI-assisted tools. - Working knowledge of construction law or regulatory frameworks, or demonstrated ability to develop that knowledge quickly and effectively manage specialized outside counsel. - Strong client service approach to supporting internal team members. - Strong drafting, negotiation, and analytical skills, with the judgment to identify material risks and propose practical, business-oriented solutions. - Ability to manage a high-volume, fast-paced workload with significant autonomy and to prioritize effectively across competing demands. - Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to explain legal concepts clearly to non-lawyers at all levels of the organization. - Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally (U.S., Canada, and Mexico) as business needs require. Preferred Qualifications (Qualifications): From "Preferred Qualifications": - Experience supporting industrial, energy, infrastructure, or multitrade (mechanical, electrical, plumbing) construction businesses. - Familiarity with cross-border contracting and managing regulatory issues in Canada and/or Mexico. - Experience with government contracting, public works procurement, or federally funded projects. - In-house experience in a decentralized, multi-entity, or acquisition-oriented organization integrating multiple operating businesses. Benefits: From "What We Offer": - The opportunity to help build and shape a newly formed, growing in-house legal function with direct access to senior leadership. - Broad, sophisticated work spanning commercial transactions, construction law, and multi-jurisdictional regulatory practice. - Potential for incentive units depending on the experience level and background of the candidate. - Competitive base salary and performance-based bonus, commensurate with experience. (But we might omit this line as it's filler? It's part of What We Offer but includes "commensurate with experience". According to instruction, we should not create Pay section but we can include this line inside Benefits? It's still mention of compensation. The instruction says never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. It does state benefits and also mentions compensation. The line about competitive base salary etc is part of What We Offer. It's not a separate Pay section. It's okay to include in Benefits? Might be considered part of compensation but we are not making a Pay heading. The instruction about filler text applies to headings, not content. So we can keep that line as part of Benefits content, even though it contains "commensurate with experience". That's okay because it's not a heading. However we might want to keep it as it's substantive. We'll include it. - Comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, retirement plan with company contribution, and paid time off. - A collaborative, high performing, entrepreneurial culture with meaningful exposure to operations across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. We should not include Equal Employment Opportunity or Apply Today. Now construct HTML. We'll output:

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