Modular Manufacturing Corporate Counsel

About the Role

Provide practical, business-oriented legal counsel across commercial transactions, construction and industrial projects, manufacturing operations, risk management, regulatory compliance, labor and employment matters, and dispute resolution.

Responsibilities

• Contracts
  • Draft, review, negotiate, and manage a broad range of commercial agreements, including modular equipment and construction installation sales agreements, service agreements, purchase orders and vendor contracts, confidentiality agreements, licensing and technology agreements.
  • Identify potential risks associated with contract terms and conditions and work with stakeholders to mitigate those risks.
  • Support the Procurement department in the RFP process for strategic purchases.
  • Ensure that customer contract requirements are understood and effectively flowed down to applicable subcontractors.
  • Provide training and support to team members on contract management processes and best practices.
• Regulatory Compliance
  • Monitor and advise on compliance with applicable federal, state, and local regulations.
  • Support compliance efforts related to:
    • OSHA and workplace safety
    • Environmental regulations
    • Manufacturing standards
    • Transportation and logistics requirements
    • Import/export controls
    • Anti-corruption and ethics policies
  • Conduct internal compliance reviews and training programs.
• Employment and Labor Matters
  • Advise Human Resources and management on employment law issues.
  • Support investigations involving employee relations matters.
• Claims and Litigation Management
  • Manage pre-litigation disputes and claims involving customers, suppliers, subcontractors, and employees.
  • Coordinate and oversee outside counsel.
  • Support litigation strategy, discovery responses, and settlement negotiations.
  • Maintain litigation reserves and reporting as required.
  • Partner with risk management personnel to review insurance coverages and claims.
• Corporate Governance
  • Support corporate governance activities, including board meetings, resolutions, corporate records, and entity management.
  • Assist with mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and strategic partnerships.
  • Coordinate with outside counsel on complex corporate transactions.
  • Develop corporate policies, procedures, and governance requirements.
• Intellectual Property
  • Assist with protection and management of company intellectual property assets.
• Any other responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from an accredited law school.
• Active license to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.

Preferred Experience

• 0-5 years of legal experience, preferably with a combination of:
  • Corporate law firm practice
  • In-house legal experience
  • Manufacturing, construction, industrial services, energy, or engineering industries
• Experience negotiating complex commercial contracts and project agreements.
• Familiarity with modular construction, manufacturing, and industrial operations preferred.

Skills

• Ability to translate legal concepts into practical business recommendations.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Keen attention to detail.
• Strong analytical and organizational skills.
• Strong negotiation skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated leadership skills and ability to succeed in a matrix, team environment.
• Ability to work with varying seniority levels, including staff, managers and external partners.
• High degree of integrity, professionalism, and business judgment.

Work Environment

• Position is at least 80% to 95% at a desk working with a computer.
• Ability to exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body.
• Performs other physical activities including use of fingers, sitting, stooping, bending, crouching, talking, hearing, and performing repetitive motions.
• Visual acuity requirements include color, depth perception and field of vision necessary to prepare and analyze data and figures, operate a computer terminal, and conduct extensive reading.
• The incumbent will be subject to inside environmental conditions.

About the Company

Join a team driven to excel in all that we do! TAS is a Houston-headquartered company that is part of Comfort Systems USA, a publicly traded company with a solid reputation built on outstanding value, integrity, and customer focus. We offer our customers and employees the best of both worlds: a small company feel with the resources, talent, process, and international reach of a large company.

TAS delivers innovative packaged modular systems engineered and manufactured in one of our Houston, TX facilities and utilized in data centers, power, and commercial/industrial utility system applications. TAS has successfully delivered and commissioned over 520 packages to over 33 countries. The company is headquartered in Houston, TX and has five ISO 9001 certified manufacturing facilities encompassing 1.2 million square feet with proximity to major shipping ports and interstate highways. TAS manages all logistics and transportation, facilitating accelerated construction at customer’s facilities.

TAS’ fastest growing business is the data center market. By applying deep expertise in cooling, thermodynamics, and power, TAS has developed an entire product line that revolutionizes data center delivery. With tremendous market potential, advanced technological systems, entrepreneurial culture, and a talented and productive workforce, we continue to set and exceed aggressive market penetration and financial goals.

TAS has a tobacco-free workplace policy, under which individuals are not allowed to smoke or use tobacco or nicotine products on the premises, while conducting business off premises, or take "smoking" breaks during working hours. Products include, but are not limited to, cigarettes, e-cigarettes, cigars, pipes, vaping, all forms of smokeless tobacco (chewing tobacco, snuff, dip), and clove cigarettes.