Purpose of the Job

Reporting to the CEO, the Legal Counsel will provide legal advice to executives, representation, guidance, and advise on Aecon’s on-going projects.

 Essential Functions and Responsibilities

General Legal:

• Provide advice on a range of contractual issues during project execution and post-execution phases.
• Identify core legal and commercial issues of importance to the Project Team and work closely with the Project Team to prepare negotiation positions and advocate said positions with counterparties.
• Identify potential risks associated with projects and develop strategies to mitigate those risks.
• Liaise between business unit / project leaders and external counsel on complex claims and litigation files.
• Manage various project-related claims at different stages of the dispute resolution process, including dispute resolution board, adjudication, court and/or arbitration proceedings, and includes strategizing with project teams and instructing external counsel.
• Actively manage and give instructions to external counsel on claims and litigation files.
• Build strong partnerships and work collaboratively with senior project executives, external counsel, consultants and other stakeholders.

Reporting and Governance:

• Research and preparation of reports, presentation materials and binders for executive management team may be required.
• Summarizing, tracking, managing and regularly reporting on the contracting needs of the Company.
• Draft policies and procedures relating to legal and corporate development function areas.

Other Duties:

• Fostering and promoting a work environment that is: productive, collaborative, inclusive and diverse with a team culture of integrity, professionalism and excellence.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Member in good standing with the Law Society in the jurisdiction of practice, an asset.
• You have demonstrated working experience/knowledge of commercial contract laws.
• You have 3 or more years legal experience in a private practice or as in-house counsel specializing in contract review and negotiations.
• You have demonstrated versatility with the ability to learn new business structures.
• You have demonstrated verbal reasoning skills with the ability to interpret the precise definition of written documents such as contracts, legislation and case decisions.
• You are an effective communicator, negotiator and consensus builder and can effectively influence without formal authority and work collaboratively with colleagues and divergent stakeholder positions.

Working Conditions & Environment

• US Virgin Islands airports
• Fast-paced office environment