Senior Counsel

About the role

Balfour Beatty Infrastructure, Inc., a member of the Balfour Beatty group of companies in the United States, is seeking a Senior Counsel to join its Legal Department. Reporting to the Company’s General Counsel (GC), the Senior Counsel will support the legal affairs of the Company’s Southwest operations and work in cooperation with the GC and the VP of Ethics and Compliance for compliance issues and investigations.

Responsibilities

• Ethics and Compliance
• Business advisor to the Southwest Region leadership team
• Litigation management
• Contract review and negotiations with clients, designers, and other consultants, subcontractors, and suppliers
• Input into the Company’s Policy and Procedure Development
• Internal Investigations and Compliance
• Labor/Employment Issues in consultation with the National VP / Corporate Employment Attorney
• Antitrust or Competition Law
• Real Estate/Leases
• Privacy/Privilege Issues

Specific Duties

• Direct project support for contract and regulatory compliance
• Serving as part of and resource to the Company’s Southwest Region management team and providing advice to Southwest Region management on legal
• Identifying proactive solutions to eliminate or mitigate
• Basing your decision-making process and advice on ethics and
• Reviewing and providing advice regarding legal documents such as owner contracts, design and consulting agreements, subcontracts, purchase orders, joint venture agreements, and other legal documents
• Negotiating the terms and conditions of contracts and other legal
• Receiving all Service of Process and distributing to appropriate internal personnel, insurers, and approved external
• Maintaining and creating proper project documentation
• Understanding company standard contract forms
• Conducting internal training sessions on legal issues such as contracting issues, claims mitigation, maintaining and creating proper project documentation, company policies and procedures, understanding company standard contract forms, and the
• Ensuring compliance with required reporting to management

Requirements

• A Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law
• Admission and active, good standing with a State Bar (preference will be given to applicants that are active members of the Texas Bar)
• 5 years of experience in the practice of law concentrating on the design and construction industry (a combination of private law firm, public agency, and in-house experience is acceptable)
• Extensive knowledge of public procurement requirements, and standard construction industry contract forms such as AIA, DBIA and Consensus Docs, and key risk shifting provisions in construction contracts
• Significant experience negotiating design and construction contracts, subcontracts, purchase orders and related
• Significant experience handling, or managing outside counsel’s handling of, construction disputes, including mediation, arbitration, and