We have an exciting opportunity for Legal Counsel to join our well respected in house legal team. This is a hybrid role with the expectation to be based in our Maidenhead office 2 days a week.

Costain Group PLC’s vision is to create connected, sustainable infrastructure that enables people and the planet to thrive. Costain, a UK company, shapes, creates and delivers pioneering solutions that transform the performance of the infrastructure ecosystem in four strategic sectors: Transport, Energy, Water and Defence.

About the role

You will be a member of the legal & company secretarial team. The team provides strategic legal advice, governance support and compliance expertise to the Group. You will work across both the Transportation and Natural Resources divisions

Key responsibilities

• Legal input into the review and development of client contracts across both divisions in collaboration with the commercial and work winning teams

• Reviewing and developing a broad range of commercial contracts including partnership agreements, software licences and service agreements, secondment agreements and other general commercial agreements

• Discussing and negotiating with clients and suppliers to develop and agree contracts

• Working with the divisional legal leads to ensure adequate policies, procedures and processes are in place to ensure compliance with all applicable laws and regulations, in particular data privacy issues

• Providing advice and support in relation to the identification and protection of intellectual property rights

About you

• UK qualified solicitor, educated to degree level: with 2-4 years PQE (flexible)

• Transactional commercial experience (preferably with some exposure to public sector clients)

• Strong technical skills in contract drafting, negotiation and data privacy issues

• Commercially astute with a strong business acumen

• Ability to present key messages/complex matters in a clear, concise and engaging manner. Strong communication (written and verbal), facilitation and decision-making skills

• Proactive self-starter who is highly organised and able to handle many ongoing and changing priorities without impact on outputs

• Can work independently as well as part of a team

• Acting as Owners - feeling and acting empowered to drive our work forward and make the best decisions for our future

• Using Curiosity to grow our business - being excited, connected and integral to growing and developing what we offer and how we deliver it

• Having an Ambition for Costain - delivering your part in ensuring Costain is a success and realises its potential to become a leader across our fields of expertise

• Using Inclusion to encourage collaboration - working together to deliver our work as a close-knit community that is built on trust, equity and positive approaches

• Bringing Clarity and focus to what we do - challenging ourselves to remain clear and focused to ensure we land our work in the most effective, consistent ways possible

About Costain

Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

Your application

Should you require any adjustments to support you in your application, please do not hesitate to contact us: careers@costain.com

We welcome all applicants regardless of age, race, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, socioeconomic background and physical or neurological disabilities.

We welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need for dynamic working. Such as, working part-time, remote working, or compressed hours. In return, we will explore what is possible.

To find out more about our Inclusion strategy, please visit our ED&I page:

https://www.costain.com/our-culture/equality-diversity-and-inclusion/

Right to Work & Security Checks

Understandably given the nature of our business, everyone who is employed at Costain must undergo thorough referencing checks. We will need different information depending on the job we have offered you. For all roles, we'll carry out a criminal record check and we’ll ask to see evidence that you have the legal right to work in the UK.

For some of our roles, you may be required to obtain and maintain security clearance of at least Security Check level (or SC clearance). To satisfy the requirements, you will need to have been a legal UK resident for a minimum of 5 years and have successfully complete all stages of the vetting process.

Closing date

Please note that Costain reserves the right to bring forward the closing date of any of its job vacancies if we receive a suitable number of quality applications from which to make a shortlist. Therefore, we recommend at you apply as soon as possible rather than wait until the published closing date.

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.

It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.

For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/disability-confident-campaign

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