Legal Specialist Construction

Our client is a leading engineering and construction business operating across the UK and Ireland

About The Opportunity

Due to a significant workload they now have a requirement for a Contract/Legal Specialist Construction to be part of the work winning team based in my clients’ offices in North London.

As Contract/Legal Specialist you will advise the business on managing their contractual risks effectively. Partnering with the work-winning team, Senior stakeholders and their clients, the Contract Specialist will analyse, advise on and negotiate the contractual terms of tenders to mitigate risk

This role can be based from either their North London or Milton Keynes regional offices, supporting either their London & South East or Midlands regions.

They support hybrid working, with 2-3 days a week in the office encouraged. Regional travel to sites/client meetings will also form part of this role

Key Responsibilities:

Review and co-ordinate the contract terms and conditions contained in the ITT documentation to identify:

Terms which are not acceptable to the business

Alterations that need to be made to the terms to make them acceptable

Risks included in the terms that need to be identified for pricing and operational purposes

Items that need to be priced and would not be identified in the scope of works

Any other matters that are relevant and affect risk or price

Co-ordinate closely with the work winning team to understand the scope of works and use this information to assess the risks on individual projects

Liaise with Clients and their representatives to negotiate and conclude contractual discussions

Understand commercial issues to manage business requirements and needs

Review wording of Parent Company Guarantees, collateral warranties and bonds (performance, retention bonds, etc) and facilitate the execution of the required documents

Create a tabulated report that clearly identifies the matters listed in items a) to e) above

Checking of contract documents once a contract is awarded and ensuring that they are correct

Familiarise the site teams with the rights and obligations under the contract once it has been awarded

Provide contractual advice when required in respect of sub-contract, contract and commercial matters including additional entitlements

Data analysis and presentation of regional tender and project information

Administration and document control of all contract documents

The Individual

Technical Skills and Experience

A professional qualification or degree in construction, quantity surveying or law

Contractual and commercial experience gained with a civil engineering contractor

Detailed knowledge of the standard forms of contract (JCT, NEC and ICC suite of contracts)

Negotiation skills within contractual environments

Demonstrated ability with drafting and presenting contractual amendments and claims

Personal Skills

Problem solving - anticipates and approaches problems with a technical mindset and creates plans to prevent issues

Proactively explores solutions - applies initiative, focus, resourcefulness, integrity, discipline, and prioritisation

Collaboration – builds relationships with others to arrive at solutions

Adapts - handles conflicting priorities in an evolving work environment, keeping calm under pressure and setting clear expectations and defined outcomes for self and others

Precise, analytical, and detailed oriented