Legal Counsel

Department: Legal

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Stockton on Tees

Reporting To: General Counsel

Description

Our Business

px PEOPLE, their commitment to excellence, innovation and teamwork, are the reason for px Group’s continuing growth and success story. We aim to be the elite provider of operations management, engineering services and energy management solutions in high hazard, highly regulated industries nationally and as we grow, across Europe and globally. For more information visit www.pxlimited.com

Our Head Office is based in Stockton-on-Tees and is home to our administrative support teams, engineering & maintenance support team & energy services teams. The Offices are located on the river Tees with close access to walks, shops and restaurants.

The Opportunity

We are now recruiting for a Legal Counsel. The primary function of this position is to provide timely and quality legal and commercial advice to the px group of companies and assist other members of the Legal Team in providing leadership, direction and management of px’s legal strategy and actions.

You’ll be supported with personalised on the job training, coaching, mentoring and twice-yearly development and performance reviews to help maintain & develop your contributions and competence.

Key Responsibilities

Provide timely and accurate legal advice to px stakeholders to support informed decision making.
Provide sound and pragmatic legal/contractual solutions to business matters, mitigating commercial risk whilst maintaining business focus.
Review, draft and negotiate a wide variety of commercial contracts
Maintain accurate and up-to-date legal document retention systems and precedents bank.
Provide ad-hoc contracts training and other agreed training to stakeholders within the business.
More responsibilities can be found in the Role Profile.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Minimum Requirements:

A law degree, or other degree plus CPE, or equivalent legal qualification
Previous experience working in a busy legal environment.
Experience of reviewing, drafting and negotiating commercial contracts including: variations, heads of terms, memorandums of understanding, supply of good/services agreements etc.
Experience of drafting, reviewing and negotiating various ancillary agreements such as NDA’s, licenses, letters of intent etc.
Experience of maintaining professional competency by monitoring legal developments & learnings and communicating to legal colleagues.

Benefits

What you will receive from us:

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Contribution towards eye test and glasses

Online company discount benefits site including cinema tickets and gym membership discount

Long Service Awards

Employee recognition scheme – ELITE Awards

Employee Assistance Programme

Flexible Benefits Package

Onsite parking

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Please note this role may close early or be extended depending on the volume of applications.

Interview

Offer

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