Staff Counsel / Corporate Counsel (Negotiation Lead)

Negotiation Leadership

• Review third-party contracts, including prime agreements, RFPs/solicitation terms, subcontracts, purchase orders, professional services agreements, consulting agreements, and change order/amendments.
• Identify and clearly communicate legal, financial, schedule, and operational risks.
• Propose specific, actionable redlines aligned to CEG’s risk framework.
• Lead counterparties through contract language and risk allocation (scope, payment, schedule, change management, flow-downs, warranties, insurance, etc.).
• Hold the line on CEG’s critical terms and escalate exceptions through a defined approval process with clear options and recommendations.
• Provide clean redlines, track open issues, document rationale, and drive negotiations to closure with urgency and discipline.
• Ensure all approved redlines are correctly reflected in the final execution copies and attachments/exhibits.

Prime Contract Support & Flow-Down Governance

• Review prime contract requirements and ensure subcontract and vendor agreements appropriately flow down applicable obligations and protections.
• Manage internal flow-down and contract compliance by translating prime contract obligations into clear requirements for project teams, tracking material contractual obligations, and supporting compliance with notice, reporting, insurance, bonding, schedule, and other contract requirements throughout project delivery.
• Support proposal/RFP responses by reviewing T&Cs, developing exceptions/clarifications, and aligning commercial positions with pricing, schedule, and delivery assumptions.
• Partner with project leadership to ensure contract commitments are understood and operationally executable (e.g., notice requirements, schedule/LD exposure, acceptance criteria, reporting obligations).

Contract and Subcontract Lifecycle Management

• Own the “contracts out for execution” pipeline. Remove blockers, chase open items, and maintain momentum to signature.
• Maintain a real-time contract log that captures status, parties, project, values, key clauses, insurance/bonding, flow-downs, critical dates, renewal/termination terms, and special obligations.
• Publish and enforce a repeatable contracting workflow (intake, review, approvals, signature, storage) so teams know when legal review is required and what terms can be accepted under pre-approved guidance.
• Cook internal reviews and approvals (project team, operations, finance, risk/insurance, leadership, and outside counsel when needed).
• Ensure executed agreements are stored in a centralized, searchable repository with appropriate access and version control.

Risk and Terms Governance

• Develop/maintain a negotiation playbook and internal guidance documents, including fallback positions, clause library, approved alternates, escalation thresholds, and delegated approval/signature authority coordination.
• Validate and negotiate key terms including: indemnity, insurance, limitation of liability, warranty, dispute resolution, termination, liquidated damages/schedule, payment terms, performance guarantees, bonding/surety, confidentiality, and IP/data/security provisions as applicable.
• Negotiate and validate intellectual property (IP) and data rights provisions, especially for Monitoring Based Commissioning deliverables, including ownership, licensing, reuse rights, confidentiality, and data security requirements.
• Identify recurring problem clauses and drive template and process improvements to reduce friction and accelerate execution.
• Ensure agreements adhere to applicable local, state, and federal requirements and relevant industry standards.

Legal Advisory & Internal Counsel Support

• Create and maintain internal guidance documents (negotiation playbook, clause library, and approval/escalation matrix) defining: (i) standard positions and allowable alternates; (ii) what can be accepted without additional approval; and (iii) what changes require escalation and documented authorization.
• Provide day-to-day legal support on broader business matters, as needed (e.g., corporate governance, employment-related issues spotting in partnership with HR, vendor disputes, compliance/ethics questions, etc.).
• Maintain a simple intake/triage process for legal requests; prioritize issues, track status, and communicate clear guidance and next steps to stakeholders.
• Advise internal stakeholders on legal risk, contract interpretation, and negotiation strategy across prime, subcontract, vendor, and consulting engagements.
• Manage contract and subcontract disputes, claims, and formal notice strategy in coordination with project leadership, including contract interpretation, preservation of rights, response strategy, and resolution planning.
• Develop and maintain internal contracting policies, playbooks, and approval thresholds; train stakeholders on standard positions, escalation triggers, and contracting hygiene.
• Help protect CEG’s intellectual property and confidentiality, including attorney-client privileged communications and appropriate use of sensitive information in negotiation.

AI-Enabled Efficiency (With Reasonable Controls)

• Use AI to accelerate first-pass issue spotting, clause comparisons, summarization, and drafting—while independently validating outputs and exercising judgement.
• Establish and maintain internal “safe use” guidelines for AI in contract review (confidentiality and privilege controls, verification steps, approved use cases).
• Build lightweight automations (e.g., clause extraction, status reporting, redline checklists) that improve speed and consistency without compromising accuracy.